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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1018107)	5/28/2017 12:29:58 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578695

Ayn Rand's time ended 15 years before she was born. Your time seems to have stopped somewhere back around 1969 or so. Just an old stoned socialist hippy who never grew up. Ayn Rand, however, had a truly brilliant mind. Her philosophical insights into the necessary roots of progress and freedom, individual rights and the proper limitations of government are even more relevant today than when she was alive. Her time is not only now, but the future as well. Perhaps that is why... ari.aynrand.org Ayn Rand Hits a Million . . . Again! May 14, 2013 Atlas Shrugged Author Sells 1,000,000 Books in 2012 IRVINE, Calif. — Thirty years after her death, novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is still selling a lot of books, a million to be precise. The popular author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead has sold 1,000,000 copies of all of her titles in 2012. 2012 saw Atlas Shrugged sell 359,105 copies, its third highest total of all time, behind 2009 (#1) and 2011 (#2). As the decades move along Rand has only gotten more popular. Atlas Shrugged was a bestseller in Rand’s day, but it’s selling more than ever in the 2010s. Annual purchases of Atlas Shrugged by decade averaged: 1980s — 74,300 per year 1990s — 95,300 per year 2000s — 167,028 per year 2010s — 303,523 per year To date Rand’s books have sold a total of 29,500,000 copies. 2,962,876 of these have been requested from the Ayn Rand Institute by American school teachers.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1018107)	5/28/2017 12:33:45 PM
From: James Seagrove	1 Recommendation Recommended By POKERSAM Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578695

To understand the meaning and motives of egalitarianism, project it into the field of medicine. Suppose a doctor is called to help a man with a broken leg and, instead of setting it, proceeds to break the legs of ten other men, explaining that this would make the patient feel better; when all these men become crippled for life, the doctor advocates the passage of a law compelling everyone to walk on crutches—in order to make the cripples feel better and equalize the “unfairness” of nature. If this is unspeakable, how does it acquire an aura of morality—or even the benefit of a moral doubt—when practiced in regard to man’s mind? “The Age of Envy,” Ayn Rand

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1018107)	5/28/2017 12:35:58 PM
From: James Seagrove	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578695

The new “theory of justice” [of John Rawls] demands that men counteract the “injustice” of nature by instituting the most obscenely unthinkable injustice among men: deprive “those favored by nature” (i.e., the talented, the intelligent, the creative) of the right to the rewards they produce (i.e., the right to life)—and grant to the incompetent, the stupid, the slothful a right to the effortless enjoyment of the rewards they could not produce, could not imagine, and would not know what to do with. “An Untitled Letter,” Philosophy: Who Needs It, 110 Ayn Rand