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1 posted on 11/13/2009 7:51:56 AM PST by cornelis
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Speaking of moderate, there's another double review of those Rand biographies, entitled "Neither God nor Devil: Two new biographies show Ayn Rand in all of her complexity." It's been posted in CityJournal.
205 posted on 11/14/2009 7:13:36 AM PST by danielmryan
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207 posted on 11/14/2009 7:39:07 AM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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I think Rand has a valid point taken intentionally to an impractical extreme by strangely drawn characters. Even in her book, striking or “going Galt” as many say today, was only a temporary shock designed to reveal to the public the moral and logistical bankruptcy of the looter/moocher/tyrant philosophy of self-sacrifice (for everyone else), and to disable it’s promoters. Once those things were done, the gulchers intended to rebuild society in a form in which each person could benefit from his own work and from the contributions of those mythic super-producers she revered. So the message isn’t so much selfishness as respect and gratitude for people who know how to do things.


213 posted on 11/14/2009 1:09:58 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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Yes she was a nut, Many here dont seem to realize that atlas shrugged was a work of FICTION...there are no black helicopter circling your house.....there are no aliens trying to preform an anal probe on you...fiction. Damn....people are soooooo stupid.


228 posted on 11/14/2009 3:00:09 PM PST by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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Amen! (To the article.)


242 posted on 06/30/2013 5:59:06 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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