As an Objectivist for over 50 years, I can assure you we enjoy Christmas as much as anyone, and for usually better reasons. This is an excerpt of Ayn Rand’s answer to a question about Christmas:
“The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying . . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only ‘commercial greed’ could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle.”
You can read more at https://campus.aynrand.org/lexicon/Christmas
In the Ayn Rand Christmas, she pushes George Bailey off the bridge, than joins Henry Potter in an egg nog toast to the brilliantly lit strip mall where Bailey Park used to be, after Potter displaced all those debt-ridden leeches.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.” — John Rogers
Santa – “And what do you want for Cristmas, little Billy?” Lil’ Billy – “I want A TRAIN!” Santa – “Well, your going to have to screw Hank Reardon for the steel, but if your DTF – OK then.”
“the best aspect of Christmas” is the Child Born 2000 years ago, to save us all, whether you believe or not…and the date was 2BC, He was born on the last day of Hanukkah that year, and according to astronomers, with Jupiter and other planets aligned in the night sky … date was December 25th…we do not follow legends or myths or folktales…ours is a Faith of Fact and Truth
Ayn Rand loved full psychopaths. They were the born “supermen” she believed in. That was her model. Natural Objectivists walking around. Remember that and ask Pscheare why he avoids that part of his adopted system for 50 years. It is easy to look up too. Also I wonder if he thinks altruism is evil?
BE THIS GUY over 5 years ago
Didn’t Rand shoot Santa for being a socialist?
danketaz Premium Member over 5 years ago
Is that the one that recommends screaming your head off until you get everything you think you deserve?
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 5 years ago
“Santa Shrugged”…
erik.vanthienen over 5 years ago
“I believe Ayn Rand’s first love poem went: ‘Roses are red/ violets are blue/ finish this poem yourself / you dependent parasite’.” – Stephen Colbert
pschearer Premium Member over 5 years ago
As an Objectivist for over 50 years, I can assure you we enjoy Christmas as much as anyone, and for usually better reasons. This is an excerpt of Ayn Rand’s answer to a question about Christmas:
“The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying . . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only ‘commercial greed’ could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle.”
You can read more at https://campus.aynrand.org/lexicon/Christmas
cooganm Premium Member over 5 years ago
In the Ayn Rand Christmas, she pushes George Bailey off the bridge, than joins Henry Potter in an egg nog toast to the brilliantly lit strip mall where Bailey Park used to be, after Potter displaced all those debt-ridden leeches.
jrankin1959 over 5 years ago
I read some of her stuff once; she seemed to reject communism, except for that “opiate of the masses” attitude about faith.
MD Bear Premium Member over 5 years ago
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.” — John Rogers
DCBakerEsq over 5 years ago
Self reliance means no gift giving. And, no saving Christmas. Damn it.
dbwindhorst over 5 years ago
Ah. This explains a lot.
The massive Arctic ice melt is really Santa destroying his creation rather than yielding to collectivism.
SavannahJim Premium Member over 5 years ago
Santa – “And what do you want for Cristmas, little Billy?” Lil’ Billy – “I want A TRAIN!” Santa – “Well, your going to have to screw Hank Reardon for the steel, but if your DTF – OK then.”
oakie817 over 5 years ago
“the best aspect of Christmas” is the Child Born 2000 years ago, to save us all, whether you believe or not…and the date was 2BC, He was born on the last day of Hanukkah that year, and according to astronomers, with Jupiter and other planets aligned in the night sky … date was December 25th…we do not follow legends or myths or folktales…ours is a Faith of Fact and Truth
oakie817 over 5 years ago
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Star-of-Bethlehem-December-1996.pdf
ChessPirate over 5 years ago
Yeah, why don’t we see “The Star Wars Holiday Special” any more? ☺
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Ayn Rand loved full psychopaths. They were the born “supermen” she believed in. That was her model. Natural Objectivists walking around. Remember that and ask Pscheare why he avoids that part of his adopted system for 50 years. It is easy to look up too. Also I wonder if he thinks altruism is evil?
Phil (full phname Philip Philop) over 5 years ago
You’re a mean one, Mrs. Rand.