<<| | No. I just wanted you to back up your post regarding Rand being a crack head and on welfare. I had never heard that before and since you have been unable to substantiate it in any way...let's just let it go.
Ayn Rand meme: ‘But on meth it is’
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"October 31, 2009
Ayn Rand "kept going on amphetamines and willpower; the writing... was a 'drops-of-water-in-a-desert kind of torture.'"
<< Ayn Rand talks about drugs [1980]: " I took fifteen speed pills, and I got into a contest with Liza Minnelli over who could roar most like a jaguar. She simply sounded like a stupid lion."
Then the inside of my head began to sound like a jet engine and so I went to the bathroom. I took maybe ten more speed pills and sat in a stall and wrote a new chapter of “Atlas Shrugged.” Perhaps twenty-five thousand words, all on toilet paper. I cannot include these words in a new edition, alas, because I did not write them so much as encode them on the toilet paper by biting it.
As I write this, I am drinking speed, and you cannot stop me. You cannot stop me, America, with your altruism and your Alan Alda and your Fresca cans biting at my skin. I shall speed across this country like a great high-speed train and the U.S. shall be forever changed in my wake.
reddit.com
Is there any doubt that drug addiction is an escape from an unbearable inner state, from a reality one cannot deal with, from an atrophying mind one can never fully destroy? If Apollonian reason were unnatural to man, and Dionysian “intuition” brought him closer to nature and truth, the apostles of irrationality would not have to resort to drugs. Happy, self-confident men do not seek to get “stoned.”
Drug addiction is the attempt to obliterate one’s consciousness, the quest for a deliberately induced insanity. As such, it is so obscene an evil that any doubt about the moral character of its practitioners is itself an obscenity…
…Drug addiction is nothing but a public confession of personal impotence.
Pretty strong words, aren’t they?
Well…. they WOULD be strong words, if it hadn’t been for the fact that it was a meth head who wrote them.
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