Posted on 08/24/2012 5:13:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You caught me...I’ve been drinking...but I’m not as thunk as you drink I am!
BUMP!
Cathy Young was born in Moscow in 1963 and came to the United States with her family in 1980. I’ve read her columns in Reason over the years. Her take on Ayn Rand always shows a mild level of hostility and damnation with faint praise. I don’t trust her sincerity on the topic of Rand.
And then, right away, correcting your typos. #:•)
Thanks. Damn bifocals!
Thanks, GW. This is as good as it gets on FR.
dunno. [shrugs]
...and don’t forget that one of Jim Rockford’s favorite aliases was “Jim (Jimmy Joe) Taggart.
Everyone....Another “need to read” by Ayn Rand....”Anthem”
He was deserving of it. Really boneheaded move.
I would love some backup for this claim. But in all my reading and re-reading of Rand I can think of none.
My guess is that critics who bring up this are talking about Hank Reardon and his family. The problem is though, that Rand has nothing against "family," however in Reardon's case, we're dealing with a mother who has no pride in what her son has done, a brother who hates him for his success, and a wife who's nothing more than a social climber, who has no love for him, and goes out of her way to dismiss his successes. They have no love, nor respect for Henry, but they live off of him, all the while disparaging him.
On the other hand, you have Cheryl, who eventually marries Jim Taggart, precisely because she misunderstands who Taggart is. She's a sympathetic and tragic character in this book, and while she's not capable of doing the "great things" that Dagney or Henry do, but she recognizes how things should be, and refuses to be a moocher or looter, even though her lot in life is minimal (at least until she meets James Taggart.)
Mark
Wow, shortly after? I would be very interested in your sources, and of course the backstory. B-D
+1
Great book. Anyone who's heard "2112" by Rush, you're familiar with the story already
Great book. Anyone who's heard "2112" by Rush, you're familiar with the story already.
“”To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money- and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being- the self-made man- the American industrialist.
“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted, or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality.” ~ Francisco’s “Money Speech” from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Or simply read the books. Most of these jackasses are getting the Cliff's Notes version as published by their leftist buddies. I always marvel at people who cannot understand a given work, yet manage to criticize it, anyway.
Considering the sheer volume of hate levied at Ayn Rand's writings and person, she must have been dead on target. Marxists hate it when people think and question what they are doing. Rightly so; marxism is indefensible in any form.
yep ole dickey had more than his fair share of ‘proggy’ ideas...
1 he created the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Air Act *
2 brought in new civil-rights laws and agencies for minorities, women, the handicapped and children.
3Proclaimed the first official U.S. Earth Day/Earth Week in 1971.
* Totally reformed the government’s relationship with Native Americans, bringing new self-determination and civil rights to U.S. tribes while saving such Indian natural wonders as Pyramid Lake — the tribe even renamed its capital “Nixon.”
* Loved those Chinese communists.
* Spent more on social programs than defense!
12 years, thanks Publius.
What an amazing woman.
She NAILED Human Nature.
Liberals are wrong.
There is NO way to pick up a Turd by the clean end.
Myself, I thank God for Ayn, Ronald, Margaret, and Winston.
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