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To: epicure who wrote (179755)	1/20/2012 2:56:51 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

>>Limited intellect doesn't mean a person isn't smart in some area- it may just mean they are totally blinkered by their world view. This totally describes both Ayn and Paul. Total zealots. Completely unable to think, or see, outside the little boxes they built for themselves. Sadly zealotry does limit your intellect. But there you are. << Ah. You made the same point I made, but said it better and got there first.

To: epicure who wrote (179755)	1/21/2012 2:33:28 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542009

<<<This totally describes both Ayn and Paul. Total zealots>>>> Your definition of zealot as used here would describe a large percentage of the those posting here on a regular bases. As to Ayn; One only needs understand her background to have some insight into what drove her ideologies. Perhaps any of us after living in Russia during the Bolsheviks time period as a Jew and in the end when her family lost everything in the final Communist takeover, we might have some empathy for her ideologies? I'm not suggesting for a second that I agree with her thinking - but to suggest she is anything but a great thinker is preposterous. She had insights because of what she lived through that today's Americans will absolutely never have.