Comments on: Best Summary Of Ayn Rand Ever

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:56:21 +0000

*to not like*

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:56:03 +0000

I happen not like Rush Limbaugh for that reason. He presents himself as a “self-made man”, when he grew up in a mid – sized city in Missouri, with a lawyer for a Dad.

Not exactly pulling himdelf by his bootstraps, was he?

Sure, the radio success was all his, but he was in a sellers’ market: AM Radio was looking for something to do, conservatives had some power, but few media outlets — a match made in Heaven.

By: soullite

soullite — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:01:44 +0000

Their

By: soullite

soullite — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:01:12 +0000

It’s not hard to see why some of the less worth-while members of the elite embrace Ayn Rand. She tells them that, despite their own obvious lack of physical or intellectual superiority, that they are superior because of all the money their parents made. It is there money that makes society run, and as such they deserve the be the emperors of the world regardless of inept, untalented or pathetic they actually are.

Just look at most Objectivists. Most of them can’t base a sense of self-worth on anything else.

By: Impaler

Impaler — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:26:09 +0000

And I will say again, I am glad the French didn’t have the same attitude.

By: Impaler

Impaler — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:24:48 +0000

leemoder – “The French did get something out of aiding the US”. Yea I know, the point was that, helping the South Vietnamese, was less about them and more about, “sticking it to” the Soviet’s and China.

That was the point of the post.

By: Indeed

Indeed — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:43:20 +0000

She was making an analogy between the miracles of science and the miracles of enterprise. A decently complex metaphor for a supposedly terrible writer.

Complex for adolescents, maybe. Maybe.

By: Enlightened self-interest

Enlightened self-interest — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:25 +0000

I believe Rand’s point was that the man who can actually “make” (as opposed to print) money by generating wealth/profit performs a service as valuable as even the greatest scientific mind of her age.

Hence the presence of an otherwise incredible perpetual-motion machine. She was making an analogy between the miracles of science and the miracles of enterprise. A decently complex metaphor for a supposedly terrible writer.

By: supergee

supergee — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:14:01 +0000

Overkill. Actually, Rand made the somewhat less stupid statement that the VP for Marketing at Federal Express is just like Einstein.

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:58:51 +0000

Jaim, You are incorrect in your definition, once again demonstrating the limits of your ability to teach English correctly.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:35:29 +0000

“Jumping the shark” is a phrase, not a term.

But I agree it’s an accurate descriptor of the GOP.

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:25:10 +0000

“before the GOP went completely racist and insane”

Are you familiar with the term jumping the shark?

By: Jaim

Jaim — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:52:34 +0000

For starters, Rand is a terrible writer. Just plain awful. Just fucking hideous sentence structure. Inane plot. Shallow characters.

I remember a time (before the GOP went completely racist and insane) when even Republicans didn’t think much of Rand, even if they liked her He-man capitalistic ideas. But now the party of Chairman Rush will brook no dissent.

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:20:00 +0000

I missed Nam by just a couple years. Plenty of older brothers and guys down the street were subject to being called up. What I remember is most people protesting just plain didn’t feel like they should have to serve in the military. The right and wrong of it was mostly just window dressing. It was just like high school, the cool kids did’t think it applied to them.

Acting all sincere and shit was a way to pick up chicks. Protests were good fun, a chance to act up and be rowdy, smoke dope and try to get laid. Everyone was trying to scam the draft and going to college was the easist way out. What we got out of that were a lot of pretencious twits who thought the college education they got sitting out the war was meant the same thing as a degree earned by the previous generation.

And what to do with all these highly educated whizz kids. Make a college degree a requirement for all sorts of jobs that didn’t really require one and that the vaunted degree didn’t really address. We’re still stuck with this problem which I charactorize as raising the bar but lowering the standards.

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:07:49 +0000

“I should note for the record that 90% the time when that happens it isn’t me throwing bombs”

LOL,
Who writes the inflammatory headlines that have little aquaintence with the truth?

By: Zython

Zython — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:34:40 +0000

I wonder how many of the fair minded progressives here have actually read Rand’s books. The follow up, of those who read her books understand them. Few of the former and none of the latter is my prognosis.

Ok, then, let me ask you a few questions. Is it or is it not true that the following elements exist in Atlas Shrugged:

1. A perpetual motion machine
2. Only 1 bridge across the Mississippi
3. Something called a “sonic blaster”

If the answer to any of these is “yes”, that just proves that the wet dream of “objectivists” is not only unfeasible, it’s impossible.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:24:32 +0000

No offense to Oliver, but it tends to get a bit thick around here
I should note for the record that 90% the time when that happens it isn’t me throwing bombs. You guys – left and right – do far more of that than I.

By: leemoder

leemoder — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:05:42 +0000

Impaler…
The French did get something out of aiding the US in the Revolutionary War as France and Great Britain were fighting each other in the Seven Years War at the same time. Any excuse to put a thumb in King George’s eye. And make ‘em waste more resources putzing around with us.

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:52:52 +0000

Repack Rider: Where was I during the Vietnam War? Fort Dix, Fort Ord, Fort Hood and Viet Nam (USAD Long Binh 1st Log CMD)… Where were you?

By: Southern Quaker

Southern Quaker — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:46:44 +0000

France had its own reasons for sticking it to the Brits during the Revolutionary War, which had absolutely nothing to do with our bid for independence.

Rather an apropos parallel to Viet Nam, now that I think about it.