Can someone explain Ayn Rand to me?!

Thans for sharing such a detailed firsthand account of your interactions and personal relationship with Ayn.

I first read her books when I was 18 and then later made a study of her life and philosophy. When I took my three teens to see Atlas Shrugged at the movies last week, I hoped the spirit of Atlas would touch them on an emotional level.

I believe the greatest contribution Rand made to the philisophical debates currently raging
in American society was to place the pursuit of Happiness in its proper sphere.

Her books gave me the courage to pursue Freebirth and self reliant Mothering. Weaning from medical enslavement has been the "Happiest" pursuit I have engaged in during my adult life.

If one is unaware that they are chained in captivity to a Socialistic Profession who believes they have authority over ones mind and body and that my body and mind exist to provide them with income, then it is impossible to disentangle from the chains that bind.

In 1990 I gave myself "permission" to free my body and mind from medical bondage and have worked diligently to make that desire a reality.

In freeing myself, I have also launched my children on a path towards Sovereignty in regards to their own health. Rand never wrote much about the enslavement of humanity through Socialized Medicine and as the tentacles of medical slavery wrap around the Families of America I pray her enobling philosophy inspires others.

In 1990 I gave myself "permission" to free my body and mind from medical bondage and have worked diligently to make that desire a reality.

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Yep that's a crazy person. (Ayn Rand used Social Security and Medicare.)

In freeing myself, I have also launched my children on a path towards Sovereignty in regards to their own health.

:(

the pathos of comment spam

your kids are probably going to die of the flu. great job!

ayn rand's public private access show (i dunno how snobby we are about funnyordie, i am kinda snobby about it, but this was lol)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/the-quiet-ones.html

leaping out at the end like a scary jack-in-the-box.

that's maybe one of the most terrible things i've ever read.

People practice rap lyrics on the bus or the subway, barking doggerel along with their iPods as though they were alone in the shower. Respecting shared public space is becoming as quaintly archaic as tipping your hat to a lady, now that the concept of public space is as nearly extinct as hats, and ladies.

♫ the lady ayn rand is dancing with me ♫

“Sir,” the girl said, “I really don’t think we were bothering anyone else.”

“No,” I said, “you were really annoying.”

“Yes,” said the woman behind them.

“See,” the man explained gently, “this is how it works. I’m the one person who says something. But for everyone like me, there’s a whole car full of people who feel the same way.”

Why is it whenever I read one of these reported conversations that are supposed to prove some ricockulous right-wing point, that they're written in this stupid way?

People practice rap lyrics on the bus or the subway

this is obnoxious, but I counter it by wailing AHHHHAHHH, STARLINGS OF THE SLIPSTREAM at the top of my lungs

You got good flow, Morbz.

can we just go back for a second and revel in the hilarity of this sentence:

Respecting shared public space is becoming as quaintly archaic as tipping your hat to a lady, now that the concept of public space is as nearly extinct as hats, and ladies.

Just a bunch of bros in baseball caps, sadly looking at each other and wanking.

Plenty of beanie hats out there, but fuck tipping a beanie.

tipping your hat to a lady = invitation to your amish compound

my god

It's full of stars

"See," the man explained gently, "this is how it works."

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If Ayn Rand hadn't flattered the wealthy and powerful so ardently and earnestly, she'd be 100% forgotten today.

worst photoshop ever

That's in Ayn's own handwriting, pen clamped in fingers cramped by hatred and frustration. Her autograph fetches a good price by those who don't understand what value is.

reminds me of

http://25.media.tumblr.com/649ca3396e55b9c25251beb4d0f0776a/tumblr_mf8h02Vrax1rtr3kno1_1280.png

Thomas, appointed to the high court in 1991, briefly touched on his confirmation hearings— which included accusations of sexual harassment — calling it "not pleasant," his intellectual development and his conversion to a conservative judicial philosophy that has guided his two decades on the court.

"Why was a black kid in Georgia reading Ayn Rand?" Thomas said. "I have no idea."

I remember the first time I heard of Rand - I was about 20! No one reads her in Europe. One of my Philosophy professors asked the room if anyone had heard of her and this US student raised her hand and identified as an Objectivist at which point the lecturer proceeded to do what can only be described as a half-hour postmortem hazing of Rand. Just really brutal, and fairly mean to this poor girl. Then I found out that people actually read her in America, which was just puzzling.

I just read Eon Colfer's book Screwed and the central character Dan McEvoy says he wound up with a copy of the Fountainhead at the end of some caper and learnt a lot from it.
Screwed is a current book by a writer I enjoy so not sure how happy I am to find that in it. Not very in short. Unless I'm missing some level on which it's not an endorsement.

Thought it funny that I saw that just after having read through this thread, since it was a couple days after when i came across the paragraph concerned.

Ex-army sergeant Daniel McEvoy is ready to say goodbye New Jersey's lawless underworld and concentrate on his new life as club owner and bona fide boyfriend. But when he's abducted and driven into the Hudson by a vengeful crime boss, he realises that the New Jersey underworld isn't ready to say goodbye to him.

If Dan is to survive, he will have to evade bad guys on both sides of the law and find the missing aunt who once taught him how to handle boobs.

i have no idea but on reading this blurb i wdn't necessarily take the protagonist's thoughts as authorial endorsement

if Rand wd appeal to anybody it wd be lunk-headed rugged individual action heroes

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger/2013/09/17/give-back-yes-its-time-for-the-99-to-give-back-to-the-1/

harry binswanger

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harry 'the bins wanger' binswanger

A+ trolling Harry "I defend laissez-faire capitalism, using Ayn Rand's Objectivism" Binswanger

so p much trolling is just this guy's thing?

Insider Trading Is A Right: Don't Shackle The Knowledge-Seekers

trolling is his Randian objectivist right PS. there's no such thing as society u dummies

lmao @ Don't Shackle The Knowledge-Seekers

sounds like a Rush song title

By-Tor and the Knowledge Seekers

for god's sake won't someone please think of the knowledge seekers

Hah before I was forwarded to that Forbes article I had to read a quote from Che Guevara.

i was just sitting in a restaurant with some people i didn't know, and the girl next to me started spouting some shite, and I said 'That sounds like some serious Ayn Rand shite to me' and she said 'OMG SHE'S ONE OF MY HEROES'. Later she said with a beam on her face 'I'm one of Cameron's babes.'

dinner voyage into abjection

Salient thread 4 U, Fizz:

Popular delusions and our duty to dispel them

it wasn't great, imago.

oh wait, bb (gr8 display name btw) i need to see this thread.