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josh
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posted 24 September 2002 03:06 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Atlas keeps on shrugging:

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020924/4474032s.htm


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skdadl
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posted 24 September 2002 04:30 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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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Black Dog
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posted 24 September 2002 04:44 PM      Profile for Black Dog   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
As near as I can figure, objectivism is mostly a big fat ego stroke for those who are already convinced of their superiority. After all, according to Ms. Rand, man is the source ofall that is good and right in the world: who wouldn't want to think of themselves as the fountainhead?
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josh
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posted 24 September 2002 04:44 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Years ago, in law school, I tried to argue with that "taxation is theft" crowd. I eventually gave up because they talked in slogans. A real dogmatic, reductionist bunch. I even had one professor who was an objectivist. If you listened to him you would think that regulation of property will inevitably lead to Auschwitz.
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cynic
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posted 24 September 2002 05:22 PM      Profile for cynic     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
From the wise mind of Stephen Notley...

Bob Rules


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ronb
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posted 24 September 2002 05:30 PM      Profile for ronb     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Leon Trager of Potomac, Md. Trager, 74, says he visits used bookstores to buy copies of Atlas Shrugged to give away.

They sure are't hard to find. Some have slight evidence of their former function - bookstops for those unfortunates who have objectivists for friends - but most are in mint, unread condition.


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jeff house
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posted 24 September 2002 10:08 PM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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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