It's funny to what retards like the SEIU/Obama campaign sock puppet "Rick blaine" constantly tell lies or post ad hominems about Ayn Rand.
They complain that she received a social security check in her old age! (Who does that after all!!). Neglecting to point out that unlike your average mooching Demofart she made millions of dollars and paid ten times what they do in taxes, and as a self employed person paid twice the rate they do in social security taxes, and as a self employed person, unlike them, could never collect any unemployment benefits And then shocking, she had an affair. One affair. One romantic affair that was not just casual sex or a one night stand. One affair after she had been married for decades. One affair which did not end her marriage and which did not affect any children. One affair which for all we know she had after her husband had become, due to age, disintererested in or incapable of having sex. How many affairs do most novelists have? How many do most Democratic politicians have? How many have Bill Clinton , Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, John Edwards, Barney Frank etc etc had? On Monday, June 18, 2012, der Hoaxster wrote: > ** > > > It looks like Branden was the person in the situation with hot pants. > Branden took his name from ben Rand, son of Rand. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Branden > > [ Rick Blaine Chronic complainer about things his point of view caused] > Treating this selfish hedonist like a Pied Piper is total > perversion. > > "Much to the lament of my philosophy classmates, I was that girl who > frequently (and loudly!) argued in favor of Rand's illogical > claims that altruism doesn't exist; that selfishness is a virtue; and that > "rational egoism" is the only right way to live. . . > .Thankfully, I grew out of that phase. Not surprisingly, but a few years > of minimum-wage work cleaning up cat faeces, without > benefits, and other thankless, unstable odd jobs made me question > Objectivism's foundations and rekindled an earlier interest in > anarcho-syndicalism." > > This woman represents all that is wrong in America today. > > Ayn Rand, novelist and exponent of Objectivist philosophy. (photo: Hulton > Archive/Getty Images) > > Ayn Rand, Just Go Away > By Victoria Bekiempis, Guardian UK > 11 June 12 > > For a time, I was a devotee of Ayn Rand's ideas. Now I see what a > pernicious philosophy rational egoism is - and how dumb! Ayn Rand > is one of those people whom you just want to go away, but won't. > > I say this not with hate or ignorance, but with deep familiarity. > > When, as a self-absorbed college freshman, I first > came across the Russian emigre author of The Fountainhead and Atlas > Shrugged, she seemed like the coolest thinker ever - what selfish person > doesn't want to hear that being selfish doesn't just feel > good, but > actually is good, too? > > I quickly devoured nearly all of her atrocious tomes with a sort of blind > hunger - that ferocious pseudo-intellectual reading you > do only to confirm your beliefs, if you will. Indeed, I devotedly hung on > her every word, even becoming an officer of my > university's Objectivist club. At one point, I may even have been > president. > > Much to the lament of my philosophy classmates, I was that girl who > frequently (and loudly!) argued in favor of Rand's illogical > claims that altruism doesn't exist; that selfishness is a virtue; and that > "rational egoism" is the only right way to live. > > Thankfully, I grew out of that phase. Not surprisingly, but a few years of > minimum-wage work cleaning up cat faeces, without > benefits, and other thankless, unstable odd jobs made me question > Objectivism's foundations and rekindled an earlier interest in > anarcho-syndicalism. > > Eventually, leaving Rand was no more different or difficult than, say, > leaving a friend who had grown to annoy me over time - > sure, I was very intimate with her ideas, but that just gave me more > insight into their outright dysfunctionality, and the strength > to say "sayonara!" > > What's scary is that so many Americans have not grown out of that mentally > puerile phase. Instead, this contingent - now largely > comprised of Tea Party radicals -remains mired in her pop philosophy. > > (Only now has Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, perhaps realizing that > supporting an atheist adulterer might hurt his veep chances, > changed his tune from Objectivist fanboy to follower of Thomas Aquinas.) > > Granted, it's doubtful that any political group so suspicious of the > intelligentsia would actually read Rand's 1,200 page magnum > opus, Atlas Shrugged, but her ideas are clearly being used to justify > inequality, giving credence to institutionalized wealth-based > elitism. > > This has to stop, and stop now. But not just for the reasons that > typically get brought up. Anti-Rand commentators have long > pointed out both the pragmatic and personal problems with Rand. As > evidenced by the Great Recession, for example, anything even > remotely close to the unfettered capitalism advocated by Rand plainly does > not work. > > Also, as evidenced by her personal life, she was more a hypocritical, > questionable character than a moral role model. As a teenager > in Russia, "she watched her family nearly starve while she treated herself > to the theater." She railed against government benefits > but cheerfully collected social security and Medicare. She championed > integrity, but bastardized Nietzsche's best ideas. And her > writing skills aren't just mediocre; if anything, her penchant for > 200-page monologues and wooden characters suggests that they're > non-existent. And she has this thing for rapey scenes; and her approach to > BDSM goes for a Mad Men-esque chauvinist chic - not > healthy sex positivism. > > Of course, all that doesn't actually say anything about her "philosophy"; > it just makes the case that she's a jerk and a hack. > That said, her theory - and summarily, its corollaries - are belied by the > abject sketchiness of their most basic premise: rational > egoism. Far smarter, more articulate people than me have pointed this out, > but what needs to be emphasized is that Rand conflates > descriptive psychological egoism (people act in their self-interest) with > normative ethical egoism (acting in self-interest is the > right thing to do). Part of this "ought-from-an-is"-type assumption is > that altruism does not exist - very much the backbone of her > belief system. > > West Valley College's Sandra LaFave does a great job following this line > of thought and pointing out why it doesn't work. The basic > claim of egoists, LaFave notes, is that people "always and invariably act > in their self-interest". However, most moral codes call > for altruism, which, in egoists' account, is "demanding the impossible". > Moral codes, so egoists' thinking goes, should not demand > "the impossible", so we should take up a "more realistic" system such as - > ta-da! - ethical egoism. > > To accept this conclusion, you have to accept the premise that > psychological egoism is a given fact in the first place. 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