HAHAHA Check this out! (Atlas Shrugged is the worst book ever!)
Except from Mr. Turnbull’s rant:
These acolytes called themselves “Objectivists,” because they believed in a race of super-humans, of which Rand was the most perfect, who supposedly had the ability to objectively perceive the universe around them. Naturally, the Objectivists believe that they themselves are among these super-humans.
Surrounded by devotees who worshipped at her feet, Ayn Rand became convinced that anyone who disagreed with her about literally anything—for example, someone who didn’t share her preference for Rachmaninoff over Mozart or vanilla ice cream over chocolate ice cream—was evil and deserved to die.
Smoking cigarettes; worshipping Ayn Rand; praising Atlas Shrugged; and taking part in an assortment of bizarre, vaguely Klingon sex rituals are similarly considered to be morally obligatory. Objectivist women are required to worship Objectivist men, the men worship Ayn Rand, and Ayn Rand herself worshipped John Galt.
These acolytes called themselves “Objectivists,” because they believed in a race of super-humans, of which Rand was the most perfect, who supposedly had the ability to objectively perceive the universe around them. Naturally, the Objectivists believe that they themselves are among these super-humans.
Surrounded by devotees who worshipped at her feet, Ayn Rand became convinced that anyone who disagreed with her about literally anything—for example, someone who didn’t share her preference for Rachmaninoff over Mozart or vanilla ice cream over chocolate ice cream—was evil and deserved to die.
Smoking cigarettes; worshipping Ayn Rand; praising Atlas Shrugged; and taking part in an assortment of bizarre, vaguely Klingon sex rituals are similarly considered to be morally obligatory. Objectivist women are required to worship Objectivist men, the men worship Ayn Rand, and Ayn Rand herself worshipped John Galt.
Anyone who thinks this review sounds reasonable should read Atlas Shrugged, if only to understand what their Enemy with a capital E thinks. They will be surprised.
It is an appreciable task to actually read Atlas Shrugged or even Fountain Head. I don't think this dolt actually did read either.
The fact that few of Rand's detractors are willing to offer anything of intellectual substance in rebuttal to any given point of her philosophy is not lost on newbies curious about that philosophy. I'm thinking the wild, shrill and frequently hysterical diatribes - none of them with any kind of basis in rationality - can serve to encourage people to read her work. Once that happens it's game over for the detractors, because Rand's work speaks for itself to anyone willing to listen. And that scares the hell out of her detractors. Hence the hyperbole, the shrill rants, the misrepresentations and the hysteria.
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I do have to say this article is sugar candy to lefties and is presented in a very professional propagandist way: Point out just enough facts (Rand smoked cigarettes) to act as a spear head to ram forth all the BS.
From memory, Nat Taggart does get a mention, facts and rumors about him are given, some good some not. Readers make their own judgments about Nat Taggart based on the rumors and the achievements.
How narcissistic.
I think, after reading a little bio, that, if this one's breathing were not autonomous, It would have stopped shortly after birth.
His idea of the finest literature seems to be "The Lord of the Rings".
"From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: “To a gas chamber–go!”
from the ex communist becoming a Buckley Jr. conservative Whittager Chamber's "Big Sister is Watching" review of AS for National Review in 1957. Buckley apparently refused to read AS himself as too atheistic.
This is about as useful as a free-person arguing Marx and his followers were the "worst" because of poor personal hygiene.
Same old. When receiving maximum flak, must be right over the target.
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