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Objectively, Ayn Rand Was a Nut
National Review Online - The Corner ^ | 13 Nov 2009 | Peter Wehner

Posted on 11/13/2009 12:51:44 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

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I agree. Why so many people are enamoured with that harpie, I'll never know.
1 posted on 11/13/2009 12:51:45 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

She was an antisocial atheist Russian immigrant too. You can only take so much godlessness no matter what.


2 posted on 11/13/2009 12:55:16 PM PST by x_plus_one (Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to have George Santayana quoted at them forever)
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For one reason, reading her and the real history of the Soviet Union cured me of the Leftwing baccilus that infected my thinking.

Also, I think her measurement omission as regards concept formation more significant than her selfishness stuff.

3 posted on 11/13/2009 12:56:12 PM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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She’s no harpie. She was decimating the concepts of PC before it was called PC.

She had a clear vision on the role of the individual against the State before it become a massive infection here.


4 posted on 11/13/2009 12:56:16 PM PST by romanesq
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Then you should read, in no particular order; The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and ANTHEM. Or for the quick version, side one of 2112 by Rush.


5 posted on 11/13/2009 12:56:26 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Based on what we’ve been reading about Mr. Sanford he has alot more in comon with Ayn Rand then he might want to admit. I read somewhere that Ayn Rand’s book has been selling lie hotcakes since Obama’s election. But yes Bill Buckley disagreed with her views. Recently NR Online republished Whittaker Chambers review of Atlas Shrugged.


6 posted on 11/13/2009 12:56:26 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule (Where did Dagmar go?)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

You’re a second-hander, Peter. And I don’t think of you!


7 posted on 11/13/2009 12:56:42 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (LIBERTY)
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Oh well... who's John Galt??

Come to think of it... who's Peter Wehner??

8 posted on 11/13/2009 12:56:47 PM PST by skully (It's time for our own Jihad on Political Correctness...)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Duplicate thread (but still a stupid article)

Objectively, Ayn Rand Was a Nut

9 posted on 11/13/2009 12:57:26 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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side one of 2112 by Rush

One of the greatest album sides ever... without a doubt.


10 posted on 11/13/2009 12:58:40 PM PST by Sopater (I'm so sick of atheists shoving their religion in my face.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Simple: it allows them to claim a conservative ideology without admitting the possibility that God is real.


11 posted on 11/13/2009 12:58:48 PM PST by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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She’s no harpie. She was decimating the concepts of PC before it was called PC.

No, she WAS a harpie. Being on our side on a few things doesn;t make her either a conservative or unobjectionable. Face it, the woman was bat-poo flinging crazy.

12 posted on 11/13/2009 12:58:57 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (There are only two REAL conservatives in America - myself, and my chosen Presidential candidate)
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Lets try that again.

Based on what we’ve been reading about Mr. Sanford he has alot more in common with Ayn Rand then he might want to admit. I read somewhere that Ayn Rand’s book has been selling like hotcakes since Obama’s election. But yes Bill Buckley disagreed with her views. Recently NR Online republished Whittaker Chambers review of Atlas Shrugged.

13 posted on 11/13/2009 12:59:04 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule (Where did Dagmar go?)
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I read somewhere that Ayn Rand’s book has been selling lie hotcakes since Obama’s election.

That's why smears like this article are being printed.

14 posted on 11/13/2009 12:59:13 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I read atlas shrugged this last spring, and while I appreciated her defense of capitalism, and dire warnings of socialistic policies, it bothered me that what very little mention there was of religion was in a mocking tone.


15 posted on 11/13/2009 1:00:17 PM PST by Lets Be Frank
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“She had a clear vision on the role of the individual against the State before it become a massive infection here.”

Or the recurrent Greek theme: what is the role of the individual in society?

Contrast and compare those societies that uphold collectivist values and those that value the individual.


16 posted on 11/13/2009 1:01:05 PM PST by griswold3 (You think health care is expensive now? Just wait till it's FREE!)
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I hope the moment passes. Ms. Rand may have been a popular novelist, but her philosophy is deeply problematic and morally indefensible.

Indeed! I don't know how anyone can honestly say that they enjoyed reading Atlas Shrugged.

17 posted on 11/13/2009 1:01:12 PM PST by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: x_plus_one

The Gulag did that to her.


18 posted on 11/13/2009 1:01:31 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

This is like the fifth article in the past week dissing Ayn Rand. While one might not like Ayn Rand’s personal life, reading Atlas Shrugged as the fictionalized fall of America is powerful. If the story could have been shortened the message may not have been clear and for those without the patience to read it, the idea is lost for them.

The book was fiction, the intertwined message was not.


19 posted on 11/13/2009 1:02:57 PM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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Simple: it allows them to claim a conservative ideology without admitting the possibility that God is real.

Exactly. You win the prize for the day.

It's time for American conservatives to face up to the fact that Ayn Rand and her whole idiot-child philosophy were completely alien to what America was founded upon. The reason her book is so popular at the moment is because people are angry about the masive government intrusions being foisted off onto us, and about the only thing most people know about Rand was that she was "agin' gubmint," so they mistakenly assume that she was some sort of right-on-the-money proto-conservative who's going to lead us back to the liberty straight and narrow. Far from it. Despite the fact that a lot of peopel think her books are deep, they're really not. They're second rate, have poor charactre development, and espouse an inane and childish philosophy that real conservatives who know anything at all about why they believe what they do will stay far away from.

Let the liberaltarian kooks have Ayn Rand.

20 posted on 11/13/2009 1:03:14 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (There are only two REAL conservatives in America - myself, and my chosen Presidential candidate)
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