Ayn Rand is everywhere!
3 June 2004 08:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juldeaSo last week I saw a guy on the silver line reading Atlas Shrugged (and promptly got in a conversation with him), and this morning a girl on the orange line was reading The Fountainhead. Is it something in the air?
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on 3 Jun 2004 05:52 (UTC)no subject
on 3 Jun 2004 08:15 (UTC)But this means you must know another who is reading Rand right now... amusing.
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on 3 Jun 2004 10:58 (UTC)And funny he should finally post his Atlas Shrugged review on his journal.
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on 3 Jun 2004 11:05 (UTC)Ooh, I'll check the journal. :)
It's Spring
on 3 Jun 2004 05:58 (UTC)Is that so unusual? *Shrugged*
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on 3 Jun 2004 06:22 (UTC)Re: It's Spring
on 3 Jun 2004 07:05 (UTC)(*don't feed the pun-ishers*)
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on 3 Jun 2004 08:15 (UTC)*giggle*
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on 3 Jun 2004 09:51 (UTC)Re: It's Spring
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on 3 Jun 2004 08:17 (UTC)But no, really. I know and accept that some people vehemently hate Rand. I just don't get why...
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on 3 Jun 2004 10:59 (UTC)I'd be interested to, in some other setting, discuss the simplifications and problems you find in the objectivist philosophy. You simply being another human being who's actually read the damn stuff. ;)
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on 3 Jun 2004 12:29 (UTC)That said, remember that Rand is actually arguing against stuff which plenty of real people are adamantly for. Religion, for one. Folks don't like their gods dissed. Folks don't like being dissed for having gods. Makes 'em feel attacked. That's because they are being attacked. So that hostility is not unreasonable.
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on 3 Jun 2004 13:39 (UTC)Yes, I realize I'm preaching to the choir here. I'm just... bothered. Since I'm a fan of the book, those others who are and take it too far/in the wrong direction/in a way I don't want to be represented by throw mud on me. Yar.
As for the second part - I was discounting religious folks when I said I didn't know why people would hate Rand. I was speaking more of the people whom I would expect to agree with her to at least some degree, but instead violently oppose. I consider many of my friends to be a part of this category.
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on 3 Jun 2004 17:23 (UTC)so, one thing i've been wondering: i get the impression that it is a view which is possibly compatible with various kinds of racism, but which does not itself prescribe one, and which is also compatible with an absense of racism. this is because i saw someone speak to an o.c. who is the closest thing i've ever seen to a hitlerian, as even nazis tend to not be loud, declarative racists (since doing so is now deprecated after the example of hitler). well, the fact that he spoke there, and the fact that he wasn't removed immediately. or even murmured against.
jacob
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on 7 Jun 2004 07:07 (UTC)Nothing Rand-written that I have read says anything specific about race. Then again, there are no races besides caucasian mentioned in the books anywhere. The "People's State of China" and some from Africa are mentioned, but no actual people...
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on 3 Jun 2004 10:51 (UTC)I'll be meeting someone at Alewife to pick up my new bicycle (whee!) right after work, and then
I'll see what he thinks. He got to me first. :P
Is it something in the air?
on 3 Jun 2004 14:23 (UTC)