there are some places that the cars impractical. some italian cities. small islands in the Caribbean. singapore. in addition, there are places in the world where owning a car is too expensive(expensive license fee, expensive insurance, long license acquistion period, and high gas prices).
Except that’s not the sentence. The “like” is a factor. “Why should people have to pay” is the basis, with " like me" merely jumping off from “people.”
Very few institutions that teach philosophy also include Rand as a major study. Most criticism seems to be that Objectivism is poorly developed, derivative, and more literary. Myself, I tried to read Fountainhead (available on Gutenberg.org) and just couldn’t read her writing.
But the bizarre thing is that people cannot see that she is a derivative of Nietzsche and the Austrian school of Economists, who gave the world Nazi Germany. Screw Godwin’s Law, some people are following the same blind alley; sometimes underlying Nazi principles ARE Nazi principles. The irony is she made a number of bad choices herself in Russia and the Soviet Union, and the first good choice she made was coming to America, after which she promptly moved to Hollywood to write pulp fiction for Hollywood. Failed at that also. The only thing left to do is start a new religion based on atheism and self worship.
What an amazing compendium of errors and lies about Ayn Rand, philosophy, Nietzsche, and English grammar.
As I mentioned the other day, to any of you who are honestly interesting in learning about Ayn Rand, don’t believe anything anyone tells you about her (yes, including me) until you have read several of her books and can judge fairly. As for you dishonest ones, you know who you are.
Sherlock Watson almost 11 years ago
Also, it would be socialism. Just ask anyone at Faux News.
Motivemagus almost 11 years ago
Christ, what heavy-handed nonsense.
cdward almost 11 years ago
I continue to marvel at the dreadful quality of her writing.
David Wolfson Premium Member almost 11 years ago
“Hard-working people like ME,” not “like I.” Are there no editors any more?
Thomas R. Williams almost 11 years ago
“…Hard-working people like I [sic]…” No wonder Ayn’t needed Alan Greenspan and a passel of others to edit that novel. Talk about collective effort.
“The man in Drawing Room B, Car No. 4, was a newspaper publisher who believed that mend [sic]….” WTF?
vwdualnomand almost 11 years ago
there are some places that the cars impractical. some italian cities. small islands in the Caribbean. singapore. in addition, there are places in the world where owning a car is too expensive(expensive license fee, expensive insurance, long license acquistion period, and high gas prices).
avtar123 almost 11 years ago
And NYC.
jondelfin Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Except that’s not the sentence. The “like” is a factor. “Why should people have to pay” is the basis, with " like me" merely jumping off from “people.”
jondelfin Premium Member almost 11 years ago
As for the missing hyphen in “hard-working,” well, maybe you just meant something else ;-)
Cloudster almost 11 years ago
Very few institutions that teach philosophy also include Rand as a major study. Most criticism seems to be that Objectivism is poorly developed, derivative, and more literary. Myself, I tried to read Fountainhead (available on Gutenberg.org) and just couldn’t read her writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Academic_reaction
JusSayin almost 11 years ago
But the bizarre thing is that people cannot see that she is a derivative of Nietzsche and the Austrian school of Economists, who gave the world Nazi Germany. Screw Godwin’s Law, some people are following the same blind alley; sometimes underlying Nazi principles ARE Nazi principles. The irony is she made a number of bad choices herself in Russia and the Soviet Union, and the first good choice she made was coming to America, after which she promptly moved to Hollywood to write pulp fiction for Hollywood. Failed at that also. The only thing left to do is start a new religion based on atheism and self worship.
JusSayin almost 11 years ago
Rand once said Nietzche, “beat me to all my ideas.” She rejected Nietzche’s mysticism, but her fiction carries on the Übermensch ideal.
BLASPHEMY. AT HER BEST RAND WAS UNFIT TO LATCH NIETZSCHE’S SHOES, WHEN NIETZSCHE WAS AT HIS WORST.
JusSayin almost 11 years ago
Superman did a better job, fictionally, at carrying out the Übermensch ideal than Rand, at least at one point he did.
pschearer Premium Member almost 11 years ago
What an amazing compendium of errors and lies about Ayn Rand, philosophy, Nietzsche, and English grammar.
As I mentioned the other day, to any of you who are honestly interesting in learning about Ayn Rand, don’t believe anything anyone tells you about her (yes, including me) until you have read several of her books and can judge fairly. As for you dishonest ones, you know who you are.