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To: tejek who wrote (321450)	1/17/2007 6:22:35 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1574211

Angelina Jolie owns the rights to "Atlas Shrugged". The Rand cultists are SURE she's going to butcher it.

To: tejek who wrote (321450)	1/17/2007 7:09:50 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574211

re: I think he's an Ayn Rand devotee. No doubt, the libertarian Bibles (note that they are fiction). Still, there is something there. I buy into about 1/3 of the libertarian stuff... when they want a ideological solution rather than a pragmatic (it works) solution is when I have a problem. I think you just make stuff work for ordinary people... it can be socialist, communist, Scientology, libertarian, Fundy Christian, Conservative/Liberal, Marxist, Mongolian, even shortyism; who gives a shit. As long as people benefit.

To: tejek who wrote (321450)	1/18/2007 1:17:38 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574211

I think he's an Ayn Rand devotee. Not particularly. I agree with some of her ideas, but I've never read her books, and I find her excessively dogmatic. She expressed strong antipathy towards people even when they agreed with her, if they agreed "for the wrong reason". You could be libertarian, but if you where not "Objectivity" there was something wrong with you. I don't share her hostility to religion, or her hostility to altruism. (Although to be fair to her, she isn't against voluntary charity, she defines altruism as the idea of an obligation to help other, even just a moral obligation, but not the act of helping others.) I don't agree with her idea that a person should live with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life.