Posted on 08/14/2012 10:12:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged. I was moved to TEARS at her description of America under the Lyin’ King’s Boot. How DID she know this back in 1957? It’s Amazing.
It’s official. Prissy Matthews is too stupid to live.
It’s official. Prissy Matthews is too stupid to live.
It’s official. Prissy Matthews is too stupid to live.
Sorry for the triple post.
How many of his viewers know who Ayn is?
Can’t be said enough.
$10 Says Chris Matthews have never read anything from Ayn Rand. Perhaps if he did read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ he would see life in Obamaville a lot differently.
Toss in another $10 if Chris Matthews doesn’t know under what political system Ayn Rand grew up. She wrote from first hand experience living in a world Obama wants to ‘fundamnetally transform’ us into. Thank GOD we are less than 3 months from fundamentally transforming his ass back to private citizen status.
Ayn Rand must be mentioned whenever Obamamedia discuss Ryan. This might cause some Democrats to go beyond their approved reading list, and read Rand. The rest of the retards will be contented to think Rand was a travel agent.
“Chris Matthews: Paul Ryan is Ayn Rand and wants to screw the poor”
As compared to you, Matthews—a common c**ksucker.
I would prefer we transform his a$$ into federal prisoner status.
Is Chrissy still suffering from his idiotpathic (not to be confused with idiopathic) neuropathy?
Didn't Ben Franklin say something about not letting people in poverty get comfortable in their poverty. Sometimes to get someone back on track they need to get screwed a little bit. I didn't take my schooling seriously until I had a few bad years of grades and got into academic trouble. I then refocused, buckled down, and got my degree. Best decision I've ever made. And it's one that I attribute to being allowed to fail.
Quite a lot of them hear about Rand from condemnatory secondary sources, and for them that's good enough. Back when Publius and I were hammering the Atlas Shrugged threads we'd get an anti-Rand poster throwing a Bob The Angry Flower cartoon in, which mocked Rand's characters for not realizing that they needed to grow food to eat. In fact, she spent two chapters on that topic - the critic had never read the book he was mocking. Funny cartoon but not for the reasons intended.
Rand is one of those authors - Machiavelli is another - whose popular reputation is quite at odds with the actual body of their published works. There's plenty to criticize with respect to the novel, but dismissing it as intellectually barren is a mark of ignorance. Which brings us back to Chrissy Matthews...
There I was in 1978 in a Philosophy of Education class when we were put into groups and assigned to form the perfect society. This was following out reading Brave New World and Plato’s Republic. The professor gets to me and sees I am wearing a tee shirt with the name of my rock band ANTHEM on it. She knew I was going to be trouble.
[ I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged. I was moved to TEARS at her description of America under the Lyin Kings Boot. How DID she know this back in 1957? Its Amazing. ]
My fault, I totally went back in time and brought her to the present day for a month so she could research for her book...
OH, so it was YOU, was it?
You must have used Reardon Metal and that Secret Power Source Generator to power your time machine! :-)
Ryan has already addressed this.
I, like millions of young people in America, read Rands novels when I was young. I enjoyed them, Ryan says. They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman, a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. But its a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.
I reject her philosophy, Ryan says firmly. Its an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a persons view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas, who believed that man needs divine help in the pursuit of knowledge. Dont give me Ayn Rand, he says.
She knew it, because she saw it first hand in communist Russia.
She wasn’t writing about the future, she was writing about things that had already happened.
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