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   exoticdoc2 said, 3 months ago

   Her ideas are pretty miserable in many ways.
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   firedome said, 3 months ago

   i shruuged right after atlas…meh.
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   JusSayin said, 3 months ago

   The real hero of Reagan Conservatism was William F Buckley Jr. Bill, and anyone who ever studied critical thinking, thought Rand a simple minded opportunist whose ideas would not be accepted because her logical flaws are readily transparent, and objectivism would be embraced primarily by those she disdained. If you read Atlas Shrugged or Fountainhead and felt you were one of the elite because you were one of the few able to trudge through a thousand pages to get the core idea that was then restated in 50 or 70 pages, you were not one she would have approved. She was an iinteresting creature of her time, but really a blowhard who had to spoon feed her audience lofty ideals while making them feel special.
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 3 months ago

   Does Clayton want Adam to build him a merciless, unfeeling robot .. or turn him into one?
   If it’s the latter … there’s always the Civil Service!
   I had the notion of someone suggesting that civil servants be replaced with androids. Someone … a Sir Humphrey type, would exclaim, “But … you can’t replace civil servants with cold, heartless, non-emotional androids!”
   The response …“Who’d notice the difference? Except that things would be done more efficiently.”
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   Mark said, 3 months ago

   @Bruno Zeigerts

   derrr…that’s the joke: “Make ME a…”
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 3 months ago

   @Mark

   But the way Clayton words it .. it could be taken either way.
   And who would want to be an emotionless robot?(Robot, yeah .. emotionless … no.)
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 3 months ago

   Is Bill Gates the reincarnation of Ayn Rand?
   Just wondering.
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   Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago

   @SUSAN NEWMAN

   Bill Gates is a philanthropist who champions education. I’d say no.
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   Old Man River said, 3 months ago

   Ayn Rand is what happens when you let highbrow critics rate books rather than the readers. Atlas shrugged and so did I. Don’t visit thr Fountainhead Cafe. Coffee sucks
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    ivison.bedard said, 3 months ago

    Ayn Rand…an antisocilaists best friend. We are the Borg Resistance is Futile. Submit to z Programme.
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    pschearer said, 3 months ago

    I have been an admirer of Ayn Rand and a supporter of her philosophy for almost 50 years. My knowledge of Objectivism is extensive. It is from that position that I can say that Ayn Rand stands to philosophy as Darwin to biology or Einstein to physics. She completes what Aristotle started and she supplies the philosophy the Founding Fathers vaguely sensed but could not define and defend.
    

    
    First, I must give my standard warning: Never believe anything anyone tells you about Ayn Rand (yes, including me) until you have enough understanding of her thought to be able to judge not just her but also those who claim knowledge of her (yes, including me).
    

    
    There is no convincing people who reject reason, so I won’t address anyone who claims to have read Ayn Rand and to have rejected her thought. I will only say to anyone with an honest curiosity that the only way to judge Ayn Rand and Objectivism is to first read her major works in both fiction AND non-fiction. Objectivism is much more that a few speeches from novels or a host of misrepresentations in academia and the media. As a complete philosophical system at odds with millenia of irrationalism, Objectivism can’t be understood from a little undergraduate dabbling. It takes work that a lot of people are simply not up to.
    

    
    Finally, I ask: How does one take a philosophy that advocates that you live your life for your values, your success, your happiness - and twist that into the idea that one should be emotionless if not heartless? This reason/emotion dichotomy is a stereotype going back millenia and it does not apply to Ayn Rand or anyone who understands her. Your goal in life should be a happy life, not preparation for death.
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    RR208 said, 3 months ago

    Greed is good???
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    Charles Smith said, 3 months ago

    If you want to dehumanize someone, let them read Karl Marx.
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    Charles Smith said, 3 months ago

    @pschearer

    One of the best responses I’ve read in a long time. Thanks.
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    Charles Smith said, 3 months ago

    @

    Funny thing is that the left is the one filled with hate, intolerance, and anger. It must come along naturally with someone who embraces tyrannical governments and cultures.
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