It's like pornography for anyone who thinks pure capitalism is ideal. Pure capitalism leads to huge corporate monopolies, 16 hour work days and child labor. It would also demand that things like fire departments and highways be privately owned and run, which as commons are not things that corporations are good at providing.
There is a legitimate discussion to be had as to what services are best for the government to provide, and what is best provided by the private sector. To read Ayn Rand, the government should have NO function whatsoever except to provide her with a straw man to bash on in her 80 page long monologues.
I've only read a couple of her books and that was 45 years ago. Even then, it seemed to me that she presented an idealized picture of the loner. It includes incredible luck so that he is never struck by lightning, run down by a drunk driver, feels no love or compassion and never gets old or injured and actually needs help, much less tangling with Adolph Hitler and his Nazi divisions. She even ignores the probability of the coming Nazi Zombie Apocalypse complete with their trained, mutated zombie komodo dragons. In other words, she's off there in her own private fairy tale land. I don't like her writings. Her ideal is not mine. She's never heard the word cooperation in her life, much less used it.
Just finished documentary on her from the library. The last third of it had been deleted!!?? It was just getting meaty too. Apparently her prophecies in Atlas Shrugged are coming true. Atlas Shrugged is what Atlas did and laid down his burden when it was seen that man had no respect or gratitude for his world.
She is ultra-right wing, controversial and her novels are dauntingly long.
Take it from one who as a secondhand book seller has his grubby finger on the moribund pulse of the reading public .... nearly everything you hear about Aynfucking Rand is bound to be on a never did read her basis .....
I would be more worried about SSF Tofudefuckingbeast. He's a bad influence.
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It's like pornography for anyone who thinks pure capitalism is ideal. Pure capitalism leads to huge corporate monopolies, 16 hour work days and child labor. It would also demand that things like fire departments and highways be privately owned and run, which as commons are not things that corporations are good at providing.
There is a legitimate discussion to be had as to what services are best for the government to provide, and what is best provided by the private sector. To read Ayn Rand, the government should have NO function whatsoever except to provide her with a straw man to bash on in her 80 page long monologues.
I've only read a couple of her books and that was 45 years ago. Even then, it seemed to me that she presented an idealized picture of the loner. It includes incredible luck so that he is never struck by lightning, run down by a drunk driver, feels no love or compassion and never gets old or injured and actually needs help, much less tangling with Adolph Hitler and his Nazi divisions. She even ignores the probability of the coming Nazi Zombie Apocalypse complete with their trained, mutated zombie komodo dragons. In other words, she's off there in her own private fairy tale land. I don't like her writings. Her ideal is not mine. She's never heard the word cooperation in her life, much less used it.
Just finished documentary on her from the library. The last third of it had been deleted!!?? It was just getting meaty too. Apparently her prophecies in Atlas Shrugged are coming true. Atlas Shrugged is what Atlas did and laid down his burden when it was seen that man had no respect or gratitude for his world.
She is ultra-right wing, controversial and her novels are dauntingly long.
Take it from one who as a secondhand book seller has his grubby finger on the moribund pulse of the reading public .... nearly everything you hear about Aynfucking Rand is bound to be on a never did read her basis .....
I would be more worried about SSF Tofudefuckingbeast. He's a bad influence.
Paul Ryan idolized her for a time. Long before the election.
One of the best infixes I've ever seen. Or is it really just a suffix because it's on the end of one word?
If you have a blown-up poster of her face, you can tape it to one of your windows and frighten off burglars and mosquitoes.
Nothing, really.
It's only special if you're a confused teenager, who has a fetish for the rich.
The only "special" things are that she was a pro choice atheist.
I would like to know!!
I managed to slog my way through "Atlas Shrugged". There's hours of my life I won't get back!!!!