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skdadl
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Babbler # 478
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posted 24 September 2002 04:30 PM
quote: "We are the producers of society," says Will Koch, CEO of a development company that owns the Holiday World & Splashin' Safari theme park in Santa Claus, Ind.
Hysterical laughter. Or: laugh? cry? yawn? My nominee for most boring human being of the C20 is Ayn Rand -- in the running for worst writer, too. As the article itself goes on and on and on, josh, I am struck by how undisciplined a discipline Randism is. These guys toss in everything short of the proverbial kitchen sink. You can't answer them coherently, or at least I can't: they're all over the place; they're wrong about too many things all at once. I don't know how anyone can call this kind of pop-psycho-propagandizing a philosophy. It's a rationalization -- for just about any appetite, it would appear.
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jeff house
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 518
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posted 24 September 2002 10:08 PM
Ayn Rand testified at the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the 1950's. Specifically, she objected to a film which showed Russians smiling. She said that this was unrealistic. I believe her testimony had to do with members of the so-called Hollywood Ten, filmmakers who were being investigated as "reds". A number of them went to jail. Others were simply blackballed and prevented from working in the film industry for ten to fifteen years.
Rand never objected to this persecution of people for their political opinions, nor did she whine about "Big Government" when the FBI visited employers to urge their dismissal on political grounds. [ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: jeff house ]
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