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To: marshmallow

I couldn’t avoid this thread...

I followed a similar trajectory. Friedman to Rand to Aristotle to Aquinas.

Rand was only worth reading as a transitional stage. Friedman is the Aristotle of economics. St. Thomas is in a class of his own.

My respect for Ryan has increased.

And to think that philosophy to liberals is Alinsy, Foucault or Marx. What a joke.


8 posted on 04/27/2012 8:27:18 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; FReepers
Rand was the 2x4 upside the head that was absolutely needed to pound the late 60s/early 70s socialist sludge, compounded by 3 wasted years at CU/Boulder, out of my head.

The most beautiful girl in the world insisted I read Atlas Shrugged for our relationship to continue.
That was most certainly enough incentive for me to wade thru it . . all 43,000 pages of it   ;-)
Like most youthful Uni romances, it didn't last (to my eternal regret), but that gift of her insistence was priceless.

Thank you Mary DeVore, wherever you are ! !

11 posted on 04/27/2012 8:42:02 AM PDT by tomkat (para bellum)
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