Time to Read Ayn Rand? - Galt's Gulch

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Time to Read Ayn Rand?

Posted by sdesapio 13 years, 7 months ago to Books

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Posted by Eudaimonia 13 years, 7 months ago

Excellently articulated reasons.
However, I do disagree with his either/or conclusion when a both/and produces no contradiction.

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Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 7 months ago

No -- it's too late .

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 7 months ago
  
  I can't imagine that people would have that book in their home and haven't read it yet. What a terrible waste. But I'm with you, if they have, it is too late as so much damage has already been done.
  
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    Posted by WesleyMooch 13 years, 7 months ago
    
    One theme that runs throughout Rand's works is that the haters of the mind are the greatest danger. Reading, especially of a work like Atlas Shrugged, represents a dire threat to their existence, because every word in it marches a step closer to their destruction. Is this a terrorist attitude? I assert that things have deteriorated in America to the point that the looters would declare Atlas Shrugged subversive material, and its readers terrorist.
    
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    Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 7 months ago
    
    Perhaps they have the book in their home -- in order to tell their Masters (their "Friends") that they have read and understood the book .
    
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  Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 7 months ago
  
  I Refer all Able-Minded Men (Ladies included) to two particular Ayn Rand essays: --
  
  "The Comprachicos"
  "The Age Of Envy."
  
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  Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 7 months ago
  
  ". . . the SNEERING attacks that Rand is unreadable." --
  
  Of course it's unreadable -- the attackers CANNOT READ .
  The gov't schools have made "certain," that its students are CRIPPLES incapable of reading --
  words have rubber meanings, shifting concepts (definitions) incite rage, chaos is the mental platform -- the "normal standard."
  
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  Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 7 months ago
  
  No -- it's never too late
  
  (however, men may be reading A$, during a new Dark Age, a new Stone Age.)
  
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