BLOOD! SKULLS! BONES! PAIN! SMASH!
We now return to the book so awful even I can’t believe it, and I’ve read Defy The Eagle. I like shit books. I genuinely enjoy curling up with a bogawful book as much as I like to read good ones. After all, you can’t tell a good book from a bad one if you’ve only ever read really good books and vice versa. You need to know shit from Shineola if you
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I wholly subscribe to her theory, based on the fact that every single person who has said the words, "Have you read The Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugged/Atlas Head/etc? It is the BEST book! Great ideas!" to me has fit this description. However, I also wonder if there isn't a bit of chicken and egg in the theory; if this is the dreck your soul resonates with ("I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.") then perhaps there is no hope for you until you have matured.
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I must admit, I'm baffled as to how Randroids ever become parents. Having kids takes altruism to the next level. You've not only got the thing living in you for nine months but then you've got eighteen years of hard work ahead of you making sure the child grows up to be a pleasant, cheerful human being who replaces the toilet roll on the holder and eats vegetables without too much complaint.
That and the fact that you'd have to be an idiot not to notice that human beings are social primates, not lone tigers. Even before Richard Dawkins nailed it, it was sort of obvious that altruism was hard wired to some degree.
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IVF or cloning I'd guess, bearing in mind that 99.9% of Randroids are spotty omega male sysadmins and the few that don't possess y-chromosomes are invariably like Jackie Mackie Paisley Passey (Google is your friend here; pretty sure that Leonard aka ludickid did the ultimate takedown of her)
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Eva Mendes, who is apparently a thespian of the cinematic and/or televisual variety, had the following to say:
AMM: What other books have you been reading? What's your favorite?
EM: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I just love architecture, and I just love the idea of being someone who sees the world differently and doing everything you can do in order to actualize that dream. And really sticking to your guns when everyone else is telling you that you're crazy. There's something very romantic to me about people who persevere, and who get told "no, no, no" on a daily basis, and still do it anyway. Frank Lloyd Wright is someone I look up to, and find so inspiring because I believe, and you can check me and correct me, but I believe he was most prolific after 80.
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Yeah. She's a moron.
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10 Shameless Right Wing Tributes To Ayn Rand That Should Make Any Sane Person Blush
As the evangelical Right's influence has declined, conservatives are adhering to another religion -- one based on the scribblings of a sociopath.
Up until a few years ago, right-wingers who needed to believe in something larger than themselves chose Jesus. But with the evangelicals fading from the Republican coalition / it look like Jesus is out and Ayn Rand is in.
Yes, Ayn Rand, author of big books about noble capitalists who triumph over the masses, and tomes of "philosophy" like The Virtue of Selfishness / until recently their fandom was a love that dared not speak its name -- either out of fear that the born-agains would be alienated by Rand's atheism, or that literate people would giggle at them ...
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