Re: Yet Still Another Economics Question That Rightards Will Dodge

On 1/9/2010 3:57 PM, D&*$?%n wrote:
> Michael Price wrote:
>> We have your insistence that she was a crank backed up by nothing
>> but repetition. You still offer no evidence that Rand dehumanized
>> anyone.
> I loved Rand when I was young. But then, with more mature eyes much
> later in life read Nietzsche, and realized she never had an important
> idea she didnt steal from him.
>

Still hung up on *WHO SAID WHAT AND NOT WHAT WAS SAID* ?

> The Nazis claimed him as patron saint. The Liberals were so lacking in
> scholarship they never noticed Nietzsche called anti-Semites “tragic
> buffons… who parade as Christian-Aryan worthies with magic hoods on
> their straw heads.” So, after WWII, nobody read Nietzsche, and Rand
> could get away with the plagiarism.
>
> Both the Nazis and Rand failed to pick up on Nietzsche’s use of the
> ancient stoic idea that the path to power begins with self control.
> Where she had two dimensional characters like John Galt, he had fully
> fleshed out figures whose view of power goes way beyond economic and
> political dominance.

Political and Economics are maybe powers to live by, but ruling is a
whole new set of motives.

“It’s better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven”

> Rand was, as Nietzsche would’ve put it, for the “intellectually
> flat-footed” foisting idealism, (be it Left or Right) upon a flat world
> of cardboard characters.

People are so complicated that we need 3D glasses?

Liberals are pretty simple if you ask me.

Anything for power, because power solves everything.

> None of these however, foresaw the rising power of women, or get it how
> that will replace utopian dogmas of the political/economic fringes with

What was that woman’s name in Atlas Shrugged, she ran the Railroad? She
was only the one telling the story…. The key player in the book….

> the more practical methods needed to deal with people who are not all
> that rational. The “enlightened self interest” of Randian economics
> assumes enlightenment is possible for neurotics. Its not.

Liberalism proves it with their fear and Neurosis of never attaining
wealth and choose to steal it from those that have.

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