Koan, Ayn Rand wrote a book I read. It's called Atlas Shrugged. I had not heard of her but Lindsay Perigo gave me a copy when I worked for Radio Liberty briefly in1995. I thought it rather stilted and somewhat archaic but the ideas expressed agreed with mine, so I thought it was pretty good. Keep in mind that english wasn't her first language.
For example I liked the idea of the wife disliking the metal bracelet but Dagny offered her diamond necklace as a swap. I was curious because it was apparently a famous book. I don't read novels [not for the last 40 years or so, though read lots before then]. Since then out of curiosity given her fame I have watched videos of her being interviewed and have read some articles and stuff [but not other books].
She seems to be like a litmus test. Dip somebody into her and see if they go pink or blue. You went way pink. It's amusing to see the foaming at the mouth responses to her. I notice you didn't mention any of her ideas but were mostly excited by her sexual activity and her personality [distorted and wrong view of it though you have].
You say objectivity is nuts. Well, actually, no. While we can discuss base reality, "The Matrix", solipsism, perception as reality blah blah blah, the fact is that when your nose runs into concrete because you lack scientific objectivism, you will find that although the concrete isn't really there in a quantum mechanical randomized, reality is only what you think and is only there because you perceive it, you will perceive it.
<The very first thing made from Rearden metal is a bracelet. The bracelet is used to illustrate Rand's theory of sex.The bracelet symbolizes the value created by Hank Rearden's long struggle to invent Rearden metal. When he gives it to Lillian Rearden as a present in section 121 she says, "It's fully as valuable as a piece of railroad rails." However, Lillian fully grasps the significance of the gift; her snide remark is her way of denigrating her husband's ethos.
In section 161, Lillian wears this bracelet at a party thrown on her anniversary. She makes fun of it all night long, and when Dagny Taggarthears Lillian say she would gladly trade it for a common diamond bracelet, Dagny takes her up on it.
Lillian later asks for it back upon realizing her power over her husband was slowly diminishing. Dagny declines the offer.
At the end of the book, the bracelet is one of the very few things Dagny takes with her when she finally departs New York and gives up the futile effort to preserve her company. >
The word "sociopath" is thrown around a lot. I asked Google what it means. Mostly it seems to mean that somebody dislikes somebody, so it's just a term of denigration. Ho hum, never mind their arguments, reasons, ideas, facts. Just call them a sociopath and say they like to have sex with somebody you think they shouldn't. No wonder you believe in Global Alarmism, aka Climate Weirding aka Climate Change aka Global Warming aka The Greenhouse Effect.
Unscientific useful idiots think that by just fixing the right name to something, it will make their scientific illiteracy and beliefs right. Calling Ayn Rand names doesn't make you right.
<She was a person who railed against social programs, like Medicare and Social Security and yet at the end of her life was using both of them.> I know it's hard to understand, but one can be against something and still use it. When one is a prisoner of a system, whether you like it or not, those are the rules. So one is obliged to go along with it. Her books sold heaps so I dare say she paid a lot of tax over the years. So she should get her share back which is what Medicare and Social Security enable, a little [most of the tax is NOT given back but is poured down the drain]. When your logic is bung, you are wrong. That's science.
I pay and have paid big heaps of tax. I get any back that I can. If I could I would steal it back because robbing robbers is okay. The fact that somebody wins an election doesn't give them moral standing. Did you know slave drivers won elections? Voting to take opm by force is not ethical.
In reading about "sociopath" I thought it doesn't apply to Ayn Rand, who was liked truth, and no initiation of force [meaning no theft or fraud], but as I read I thought there goes Hillary Clinton:
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Also, here's a more lengthy item:
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There's a psychological thing called "projection". Maybe that's what you are doing with name-calling Ayn Rand because Hillary fits the bill.
Americans go for this psycho jargon and provide free psychological analysis over the internet - it's a fun game to play. But they seem to be serious.
How do you think you'll feel if Trump wins and goes to Washington to drain the swamp? It's going to be fun to see the cognitive dissonance when the unreality of what has happened dawns on the Clintonistas.
He's not going to think the White House is much good. He has a more Louis 14th style. Maybe he could rent Versailles and move the White House staff there. The French could use the revenue to pay for the swarming jihadists taking over the country. ... No, wait. Actually he doesn't have Louis 14th ideas other than the opulence. He lives downtown New York in the thick of it, with no gardens. He likes the seething hordes. A man of the people.
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