Re: The Appeal of Ayn Rand

On 1/7/2010 11:14 PM, Clave wrote:
> “Beam Me Up Scotty” wrote in
> message news:4B46AA49.3050703 @&*$?%Talk-n-dog.com…
>>
>>>>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:30:52 -0800, “Clave”
>>>>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Do you *really* think Rand was unintelligent or that she wasn’t a
>>>>>> talented
>>>>>> writer?
>>
>>
>>
>> Rand was a logical thinker, she was stringing together what the
>> Liberal-Socialism would create, the strange thing is how she was so
>> right and how it paralleled what happened over the next 60 years in the
>> USA.
>>
>> Whether the writing was poetic or fluid isn’t the totality of her
>> skills… her genius was that she could extrapolate a scenario and
>> express it reasonably well in an entertaining format, and compare it to
>> reality while getting it all right on target.
>
> She was intelligent, but she was also the living embodiment of JK
> Galbraith’s remarkable observation:
>
> The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest
> exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a
> superior moral justification for selfishness.
>
> Jim
>

Oddly enough, Liberal-Progressives are thoroughly enamored with creating
a utopian society while ignoring that someone has to support maintain
and pay for it. That end justifies theft and abuse on a grand scale.
Somehow their Unicorn trap is always empty.