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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ayn Rand - Her mentally ill world where good consists of worshiping the one percenters [View all]
Over the past year, I've been reading and reviewing Ayn Rand's massive paean to capitalism, Atlas Shrugged. If you're not familiar with the novel, it depicts a world where corporate CEOs and one-percenters are the selfless heroes upon which our society depends, and basically everyone else journalists, legislators, government employees, the poor are the villains trying to drag the rich down out of spite, when we should be kissing their rings in gratitude that they allow us to exist.Atlas Shrugged is a work of fiction, but as far as many prominent conservatives are concerned, it's sacred scripture. Alan Greenspan was a member of Rand's inner circle, and opposed regulation of financial markets because he believed her dictum that the greed of businessmen was always the public's best protection. Paul Ryan said that he required his campaign staffers to read the book, while Glenn Beck has announced grandiose plans to build his own real-life "Galt's Gulch," the hidden refuge where the book's capitalist heroes go to watch civilization collapse without them.
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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/top-10-lessons-strange-mirror-universe-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged
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Ayn Rand - Her mentally ill world where good consists of worshiping the one percenters [View all]
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
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A-hole doesn't begin to describe her. Her "writing" would be laughed out of town today. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
#2
"HERO If it's heads, I will gaze apathetically. If it's tails, I will laugh heartily. " ROFLMAO!
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
#5
When I was 17 an older friend gave me a copy of The Foutainhead to read. I'd never heard of Ayn Rand
octoberlib
Apr 2014
#8
I agree. Same thing happened to me. I could barely get through one. Like having a root canal
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
#9
My apologies to the mentally ill, for comparing them with an evil a-hole: Ayn Rand. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
#15
Every discriminated group has a tiny handful that will sell out the group to the group's enemy -
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
#14
And her fans are psychopaths. Who can uphold such thinking but a psychopath? nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
#17
Yes. She was an early L. Ron Hubbard. Narcissists & jack-of-all-trades scammers and fraudsters...
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2014
#19