Brilliant article on Ayn Rand and her lasting legacy of insanity to the Right.
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Buzz 9:12 am on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
I have been listening to Frontline’s Podcast “The Warning” that chronicles how bull-headed Greenspan, svengalied by Ayn Rand’s belief in total deregulation of capital markets, refused to see what was happening and going to explode in the economy.
He doesn’t look like such a “wizard” now. Just an arrogant fool.
null 9:14 am on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
In terms of politics, I would consider myself to be a conservative with a libertarian bent – and I’m always surprised when otherwise sane people name Ayn Rand as their favourite author/philosopher.
I had to read Anthem twice in a row – just to confirm that yes, that was a pile of crap. If Ayn Rand is your favourite author, you need to try harder.
aziz 11:30 am on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
i may be misreading you, but did you just refer to Anathem as a pile of crap?
(Anathem = novel by Neal Stephenson, not Ayn Rand)
null 11:53 am on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
No, the novella Anthem – Rand’s amatuerish and unoriginal rip off of Zamyatin’s ‘We’.
Dystopian novels – if there exists a more shallow form of expression, I don’t want to know about it.
aziz 12:06 pm on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
ahhh – my reading comprehension = Bad
sorry