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Ayn Rand had a lot of good points. She escaped a totalitarian communist state. I don't agree with all her views, and she was a miserable person from what I've read on a personal basis, but she did a lot to spread the ideas of individual rights and freedom
Rand was brilliant and her philosophy of responsibility and accountability is much needed today. Unfortunately, the kid we have in the White House doesn't have the ability to learn.
Here are some excellent quotes from Ayn Rand. I don't know what kind of idiot would disagree with these.
"Everyone has the right to make his own decision/s, but none has the right to force his decision on others."
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."
"The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does * if that catch-phrase has any meaning * but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice."
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
"Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice."
There are two kinds of folks who have strong opinions on Ayn Rand:
Those who haven't read Atlas Shrugged and are convinced she was a genius,
Those who have read Atlas Shrugged and know she was a lousy writer.
I've read it, admittedly its a slog. I understand the criticisms of the borderline rape portrayed as romantic. She was a stalwart for individual freedom and loved her adopted country of USA. She even gave a commencement at West Point once. She has to be hailed as a defender of freedom!
Ayn Rand had a lot of good points. She lived under a totalitarian communist state. I don't agree with all her views, and she was a miserable person from what I've read on a personal basis, but she did a lot to spread the ideas of individual rights and freedom
Her REACTIONARY response to excesses imported to America only served to blind her to the actual meaning of America. She never knew what we were or what made us worthy of praise (as a collective nation).
She is, and has been utilized, as an assault on collectivism, on the family, and on anyone (infants to elderly) who fails to worship themselves in her world view. Every policy that's been influenced by her philosophy leaves children unguarded and leaves all of womankind upholding all of civilization on her back while mankind is encouraged to masturbate/ aspiring to be a pimp.
<Alleged> conservative minds are poisoned against themselves and they're blaming all others for their illness as a 'vast left wing conspiracy'. Their pimps have conspired against them. Not the rest of us.
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