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Posted on 11/13/2009 12:51:44 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
According to Politico.com, Ayn Rand — the subject of two new biographies, one of which is titled Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right — is “having a mainstream moment,” including among conservatives. (Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina wrote a piece in Newsweek on Rand, saying, “This is a very good time for a Rand resurgence. She’s more relevant than ever.”).
I hope the moment passes. Ms. Rand may have been a popular novelist, but her philosophy is deeply problematic and morally indefensible.....
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She was an antisocial atheist Russian immigrant too. You can only take so much godlessness no matter what.
Also, I think her measurement omission as regards concept formation more significant than her selfishness stuff.
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.
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.
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.
You’re a second-hander, Peter. And I don’t think of you!
Come to think of it... who's Peter Wehner??
Simple: it allows them to claim a conservative ideology without admitting the possibility that God is real.
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.
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.
That's why smears like this article are being printed.
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.
“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.
Indeed! I don't know how anyone can honestly say that they enjoyed reading Atlas Shrugged.
The Gulag did that to her.
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.
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.
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