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Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
I came across this link and thought some of you might be interested in a short biography done in graphic style. http://activatecomix.com/162-1-1.comic I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
Here's her complete interview with Mike Wallace. I just shake my head at the foolish woman thinking that the elites can get by without any help. Christ, most of them couldn't mow their own lawns. I wonder what her maid and cook thought of this interview. LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooKsv_SX4Y I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
she died. Call me anything you want, but loved the movies Atlas Shrugged. |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
When we are young there are tales of heroes and knights and white hat cowboys that become fantasy ideals. These are people who win out over all obstacles by holding to ideals. Rarely are there versions of these tales which convince the imagination of young adults that the age of heroes is alive and well and that by holding to ideals all evil will be vanquished. Knights of the Round Table stories are in this vein. The Lone Ranger is John Galt even to the question Who was that masked man? In communist Russia, where she came from, there were children's tales of heroes of the people, heroes of the Soviet Union who singlehandedly brought down capitalists and merchants and land owners solely because they lived by communist ideals. Their ideals were pure. Victory was assured. She wrote the reverse for a capitalist audience. === Mitt Romney 2012 Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ayn Rand! Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
And I right the same for some that would have no other voice otherwise. You know what I do and why I do it. There is no other voice on the planet left but mine. I can only express what is my soul each and every moment. It changes every single second. I cannot help that. I really cannot. You, at least some of you. Those that really try to know me.r Christ, that was Melissa and not Joplin, what the f? "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
she died. Call me anything you want, but loved the movies Atlas Shrugged. If & when the TRUE producers strike, you will be surprised who is doing the striking. Yes, indeed, many surprises will be in store. |
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Atlas Shrugged III Ayn Rand fOevvA. fO shO Corn 'it' May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Having read a bit on this woman, she seems the perfect black and white visionary. everyone owed her by her just being there. What a narcissist In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Ayn Rand was, IIRC, a teenager at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, not a child. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Atlas Shrugged III Ayn Rand would take your manner of expression, eat it for breakfast and vomit it out back upon you. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Dorothy Parker on Atlas Shrugged: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Reality Internet Personality |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
I just had to reply. As a young student this person was all over amongst my friends and others. With out going in to any detail it seems that around the end of the war in South East Asia she started talking about 'national self interest' rather than 'rational self interest'. It came to light that after the American IRS got in to her tax history she sold out to stay out of jail. Remember this is the philosopher who used the House Committee on Un American Activities as a good way to eliminate some selected Jewish American competition in Hollywood. |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
I just had to reply. As a young student this person was It is not clear how getting into politics keeps the IRS at bay. HUAC did many things which are considered wrong today but from the open, avowed intention of the Communist Internationale to support violent revolution and since the well known 1933 massacre of millions of Ukrainians one cannot argue against doing something. In that regard many people considered it patriotic to expose communists regardless of ideals or consequence, Ronald Reagan among them. Rand suspect both from her origins and Hollywood affiliations had every justification to act in her own self interest. Besides, acting in strict accordance with simple ideals was what she preached. Her whole act went downhill when she complicated everything with Objectivism. Sir Lancelot is a way of life not a philosophy that needs be studied. Once she got passed simple declarative sentences albeit often long winded ones she lost it. And although I do not recall a direct comparison at the time she started Objectivism it was also when sociologists were showing the greatest number of a group survives by practicing altruism. John Galt is an evolutionary dead end. Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
I suppose that's why so many people with right-wing views come across as drug addled crackheads. "Like" :) T.A. |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Sometimes I wish there was a like button on this forum. Reality Internet Personality |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Unfortunately, this also belongs in the NSA related threads, because the NSA got bias into random number generators to decrypt you bank data. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
If you are referring to the pampered wealthy elite corporatists as the "TRUE producers", I think you'll find they began their strike many years ago under the Reagan/Thatcher fiascoes. With the onslaught of globalization, they've been able to strike at the heart of the working class by sending manufacturing overseas. Of course, these rich pigs aren't really the "TRUE producers" of anything. They are actually leeches sucking at the blood and sweat of those who do produce. The wealthy are not producers of anything but greed and poverty. They do nothing more than profit from those who do the production. They need us more than we need them. Let's see Bill Gates or some Saudi oil baron actually build their own mansions, planes, cars or anything else you can think of. Most of them don't know how to fix a damned toilet, so don't call them the "TRUE producers". PS: In Rand's feverish attempts to show how the elites don't need ordinary people, did she ever explain how the soft handed non-labouring elites actually built their new community? I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
It seemed so wonderfully apt. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Imagine Send message Joined: 22 Sep 13 Posts: 3 Credit: 387 RAC: 0 |
Mr Robert Waite your displeasure may be misdirected. I suspect that Sarge is referring to a greater enumeration of people other than those that have Sh$t/money. Those with skills in science, those with artisan skills, and good workers are the ones who create wealth. Never seen money create wealth, only more money. |
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