Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDem lawmaker rips Time acquisition: Get ready for Ayn Rand as next Person of the Last & Next Century
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) slammed a Koch-backed publisher's acquisition of Time Inc. on Sunday, joking that Time Magazine's next "Person of the Last & Next Century" would be libertarian and conservative icon Ayn Rand.
"Get ready for next years new Time Magazine feature Person of the Last & Next Century Ayn Rand," Boyle tweeted.
Link to tweet
Boyle was referring to Time's famed "Person of the Year" feature, in which the magazine selects an influential figure to grace its cover at the end of the year.
On Friday, President Trump tweeted that he passed on being this year's "Person of the Year," something that was disputed by the publication itself.
Rand, the author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," is considered an icon among many libertarians and conservatives.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/361898-dem-lawmaker-rips-time-acquisition-get-ready-for-ayn-rand-as-next-person-of
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
4 replies, 1289 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (12)
ReplyReply to this post
4 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Dem lawmaker rips Time acquisition: Get ready for Ayn Rand as next Person of the Last & Next Century (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Nov 2017
OP
Ayn Rand, a conservative icon who expressed admiration for a brutal murderer ...
eppur_se_muova
Nov 2017
#4
hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)1. A kochhead bought Time? I thought it part of the Time-Warner sale.
Qutzupalotl
(14,341 posts)2. Its true...
BigmanPigman
(51,660 posts)3. Does that mean another of my print mag subscriptions
won't be renewed by me? I have a feeling Rolling Stone is next.
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)4. Ayn Rand, a conservative icon who expressed admiration for a brutal murderer ...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10021118602
One reason why most countries dont find the time to embrace her thinking is that Ayn Rand is a textbook sociopath. Literally a sociopath: Ayn Rand, in her notebooks, worshiped a notorious serial murderer-dismemberer, and used this killer as an early model for the type of ideal man that Rand promoted in her more famous books ideas which were later picked up on and put into play by major right-wing figures of the past half decade, including the key architects of Americas most recent economic catastrophe...
Back in the late 1920s, as Ayn Rand was working out her philosophy, she became enthralled by a real-life American serial killer, William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker in 1927 shocked the nation. Rand filled her early notebooks with worshipful praise of Hickman. According to biographer Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market, Rand was so smitten by Hickman that she modeled her first literary creation Danny Renahan, the protagonist of her unfinished first novel, The Little Street on him.
What did Rand admire so much about Hickman? His sociopathic qualities: Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should, she wrote, gushing that Hickman had no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel other people.
One reason why most countries dont find the time to embrace her thinking is that Ayn Rand is a textbook sociopath. Literally a sociopath: Ayn Rand, in her notebooks, worshiped a notorious serial murderer-dismemberer, and used this killer as an early model for the type of ideal man that Rand promoted in her more famous books ideas which were later picked up on and put into play by major right-wing figures of the past half decade, including the key architects of Americas most recent economic catastrophe...
Back in the late 1920s, as Ayn Rand was working out her philosophy, she became enthralled by a real-life American serial killer, William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker in 1927 shocked the nation. Rand filled her early notebooks with worshipful praise of Hickman. According to biographer Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market, Rand was so smitten by Hickman that she modeled her first literary creation Danny Renahan, the protagonist of her unfinished first novel, The Little Street on him.
What did Rand admire so much about Hickman? His sociopathic qualities: Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should, she wrote, gushing that Hickman had no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel other people.
Original source at the link
Rand's definition of a "Superman" seems to match the definition of a narcissistic sociopath, a type much celebrated by the American right wing throughout the last several decades.