Valdemar II
Banned
John Galt's speech from Cthulhu Shrugged:
"Cthulhu Ia Ia Ia Fhtagn R'lyeh P'ngului Shoggoth etc..."
First time it has ever made sense to me.
John Galt's speech from Cthulhu Shrugged:
"Cthulhu Ia Ia Ia Fhtagn R'lyeh P'ngului Shoggoth etc..."
"Revisionism" (as in "what we don't like about Labour Zionism") was alive and well in Palestine since it was Turkish province. Google on Zhabotinsky, then Menahem Begin.
Ayn Rand was actually anti-racist and for civil rights so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Try rereading both her words and what I actually said.
She made the bizarre argument that racism was wrong because it's supposedly "collectivist". Never mind that much of the reason racism was created and perpetuated was to justify rights to individual property over human rights. (Think both slavery and the theft of Indian lands.) Never mind that collectivists ideologies generally are explicitly anti racist.
As one of her former admirers described:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/an-insiders-look-at-how-a_b_174752.html
"...the shameful fact that the Objectivist movement and its purported belief in individual rights stayed completely on the sidelines during the Rand's intellectual heyday of the 1960s while the single biggest advance in individual liberty was going on - namely, the civil rights movement. Well, Rand did knock out a few pages in an article called Racism in 1963 that spent as much time blaming 'the Negro leaders' as it did the 'Southern Racists'."
Rand also explictly denounced the civil rights movement, calling it a movement of mob rule based on intimidation.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/civil_disobedience.html
Former admirers are very likely to take sides and criticize.As one of her former admirers described:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/an-insiders-look-at-how-a_b_174752.html
Speaking of England what if she marries George Orwell?
Somehow I doubt they'd get along very well...
Think of the TV series "House".
If a sociopath like Doctor House could theoretically (and almost plausibly) be a great diagnostician, then why couldn't Any Rand?
I really fully annoyed by her psuedophilosophy and its followers, once vandalized her wikipedia page to make her a Russian porn star. Ayn Rand as a pin-up girl, anyone? Maybe she'll lead the sexual revolution in the 60s.
She's too unattractive.
1. She opposed the methods of the civil rights movement but she did support racial equality....
2. Also collectivist ideologies aren't in general racist? Yes I'm sure Nazism, Stalinism, fascism, and other ideologies were the paradigm of tolerance.
(Note to our Objectivist comrades: if you want to respond, it may help if you think of this post as a test of, well, your objectivity. Can you respond with cool logic, as Rand would have wanted you to, or will you be dragged down by sentimentality and unreason...?) Doug M.