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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:50 PM Original message |
Ayn Rand is the problem.... |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. No need to tell me n/t |
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liberaldemocrat7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 07:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
33. Excuse me but the religious right also espouses her views |
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NI4NI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. Seems to me it's a poor excuse |
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AX10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. K & R! |
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FormerDittoHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 07:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
34. Not hard to understand their "popularity" when they're given away to students for free... |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. how can anyone read her books? gah. |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Long, patronizing... |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Ayn Rand...unreadable drek for the pseudo-intellectual. |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 07:38 AM Response to Reply #4 |
36. I was going to ask that myself. |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. HILLARY considers Rand a "formative influence"...????? |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
7. I read both of her big books |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. the philosophy of cockroaches |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. I used to be into Rand. Then I turned 12. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 12:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
25. i've been using i line like that for years |
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nightrider767 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. It sure hit's home |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. To be honest, those first two would not have happened without large population. |
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nightrider767 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Excellent Point, thanks |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 12:08 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Yes. And those dashboards for Jaguar XJ-12's. |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 11:05 AM Response to Reply #10 |
44. You mean Upton Sinclaire's 'The Jungle' |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
11. Rand operated under the mistaken notion that altruism was indoctrinated rather than natural |
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NJCher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 03:40 AM Response to Reply #11 |
29. the machine |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
12. The solution: growing up |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 12:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
24. The fallacy of objectivism |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 10:18 AM Response to Reply #12 |
40. I never understood why Dagny Taggart had to be raped to have a |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 11:01 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. people of power like on occasion to switch positions n/t |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. Ayn f---ing Rand, the person form whom the word "ignoranus" was coined! n/t |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
16. I LOVE to read, and Atlas Shrugged was one of the driest books |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
18. Above and beyond Rand's promotion of greed and solipsism as the apex... |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 12:06 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I enjoyed |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
19. There is nobody more powerless than the individual! |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
20. I just finished playing a PC game set in an Ayn Rand dystopia |
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Generic Brad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
21. "Atlas Shrugged" was required reading where I went to college |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 12:26 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. And it's a good thing too |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 02:41 AM Response to Original message |
27. Ayn Rand wrote FICTION, |
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Rocinante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 03:28 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Precisely |
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SparkyMac (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 06:47 AM Response to Original message |
30. Rand appealed to me when I was college age. |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 07:06 AM Response to Original message |
31. Altruism is not the sole property of the religious right.... |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
32. Rand is not and never has been a philosopher. She's just |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
35. Objectivism = Amorality |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 11:03 AM Response to Reply #35 |
43. not by her definition of morality = code of values accepted by choice |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
37. Here she is, a la Calvin & Hobbes: |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
38. tried reading "Atlas Shrugged" years ago . . . threw it out . . . n/t |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
39. See this Rand thread for the BEST. RESPONSE. EVER. on Rand: |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-14-07 10:37 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Thats Good. Thanks. n/t |
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