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To: Prodigal Son
I've just never understood why Conservatives hate her so much.

Speaking only for myself, I don't hate her. I just realize that her writings and philosophy came from her bitterness at losing her "stuff" at the hands of the Communists, and it's like one long, adolescent temper-tantrum.

I just think her philosophy is simple-minded and silly, and that typically only an adolescent, who is easily enticed into anything that reinforces his view that he really is the center of the universe, and has no ability for critical thinking, is taken in by this.

Most people I knew read this stuff in high school and college and got all excited about it. When they entered the real world, they discarded it as silly and useless.

40 posted on 07/14/2002 6:51:45 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: Illbay
One thing we might concur on- a truly innovative, creative, intelligent human being who is fully capable of thinking for himself (in short- someone who Rand might've liked) would actually have little need of her philosophy.

One reason I don't trouble myself overly about it is- at this point it is all "theory". Like when libertarians talk about how a libertarian society would work. Well, sure, we can sit around and masterbate intellectually about what it would be like to live in a truly free 'anything goes', every man for himself world/society, but we DON'T live in that type of world and we won't in the foreseeable future. I personally can't get past how we would keep terrorists out of our borders in a libertarian world but that's an aside.

It's all just speculation- this is the world I find myself in. It is not a libertarian Atlantis and neither, thank God, is it a socialist utopia. I have to work with what I've got. Right now, I find myself in a world of sh!t, with Radical Islam trying to kill us on one side and the liberals trying to tax us and regulate us to death on the other. I'm just trying to get by in this present day world the best I can and I still figure my best bet is voting GOP/Bush in 2002- 2004. It's hard to look a lot further down the road than that with all that's going on in the world. When we get the dems thrown out of gov't, taxes really low, the gov't out of our lives- then I might be willing to sit around and give serious consideration to whether we should go "libertarian" or whatever. You know what I mean?

43 posted on 07/14/2002 7:12:44 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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