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To: RetiredNow who wrote (999991)

2/12/2017 3:38:21 PM

From: James Seagrove

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Two quotes from Ayn Rand and Koan was pushing up daisies. All this from a guy who drives women to Mexico for dangerous medical procedures and welches on bets.

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To: koan who wrote (123415)	10/27/2016 1:31:47 PM
From: James Seagrove	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) of 130273

“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.” Ayn Rand We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand

To: James Seagrove who wrote (123416)	10/27/2016 1:52:40 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 130273

You're following the wrong philosophers. Ayn Rand was a horrible human being. Her roots came out of Russia and she hated the working person, calling them vermin. She was a hard-core atheist and was head of a cult like group. She made one of the members of the cult who was married and much younger than her, have sex with her and insisted that his wife put up with it. In her old age when she was dying of cancer she relied on Social Security and Medicare, two programs that she railed against all her life and hated. You need to find yourself other mentors. Ones with a conscience and a soul: and maybe a little intelligence. YOu might want to start with the biography of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead. It is interesting that Paul Ryan also loved Ayn Rand. And he seemed to be clueless about the fact that he was a devout Catholic and she was a devout atheist. Somehow he squared that circle in his mind as he made all his staff read Ayn Rand.