THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS GOOD COVERAGE OF AYN RAND'S CURRENT POPULARITY BUT LET'S NOT FORGET THE FATHER OF TRICKLE DOWN AND OTHER BEGINNINGS OF THE HOUSING CRISIS AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN:
Early in his life, Alan Greenspan was a friend and follower of writer Ayn Rand...
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Listening to a CBC interview with U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs, prolific best-selling author, renowned statist, Columbia professor, United Nations sideman and an intellectual booster of Occupy Wall Street.
Mr. Sachs delivered all the key words:
- U.S. politics is corrupt,
- Republicans and Democrats are complicit,
- Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Wall Street, a “veneer of democracy,” a system run by greedy Wall Street thugs and
- the rich who “don’t follow the law and don’t pay taxes.”
It was pure Occupyism. But then, unprovoked, Mr. Sachs spontaneously veered off the road into an attack on somebody called Ayn Ran
“The Tea Party, the leaders of it, follow Ayn Rand,” he said. “I don’t know how many people here have read this awful woman.
Absolutely one of the most pathetic personalities. If you read her biography, she was a sad, sad, lonely, nasty woman, because she preached … antagonism to compassion.”
Mr. Sachs, who was promoting his new book,
'The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity'.
He had broken out into a “cold sweat” after reading a section of Rand’s novel, 'Atlas Shrugged', a notorious 100-page speech by one of her characters, John Galt.
Ayn Rand may be long dead, but she seems to have been resurrected as the most dangerous woman in America.
Media references to Ayn Rand have skyrocketed over the last year, many of them elaborate putdowns.
...the phenomenon of Ayn Rand as leftist/liberal ideological nightmare.
Looking out over the economic and ideological landscape of America today — a land of big government, massive debt, pervasive regulation, fiscal cliffs — there is scant evidence that Ayn Rand has had much influence on the political life of the country.
MSNBC’s talk socialist Lawrence O’Donnell:
NHL lockout, a Globe and Mail sports writer exposed the evil heart of the conflict.
Some of the NHL owners, wrote Sean Gordon, “subscribe to a stoutly capitalist and virulently anti-union philosophy.
That is to say they’re Randians — adherents to the beliefs of the late polemicist and novelist Ayn Rand.
In Newsweek last week, the novelist Martin Amis, analyzing the Republican convention in Tampa, went after Ryan and fellow Republican Ron Paul as
“anti-abortion libertarians who have managed to distill a few predatory slogans from Ayn Rand’s unreadable novel, Atlas Shrugged...
“They have nothing to offer and can achieve nothing."
"They can only help to destroy intellectual standards, to disintegrate thought, to discredit capitalism, and to accelerate this country’s uncontested collapse into despair and dictatorship.”
This week, the Ayn Rand Institute in Los Angeles launched a new book :
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government,
- is a summary of Randian theory plugged into current political and economic developments.
Steve Forbes said that Ayn Rand's new book will raise the ire of every statist, socialist and crony capitalist.
Ayn Rand understood that:
1. free markets are moral, while
2. Big Government is manifestly not(moral).
RAND FOLLOWERS appear to be moving in on Washington’s Cato Institute,
a libertarian bastion long headed by Ed Crane but now presided over by John Allison, the Ayn Rand Institute board member.
Rand condemned liberals and conservatives, but had even stronger views about libertarians.
In a 2009 biography of Ayn Rand, author Jennifer Burns records that during Rand’s public speeches:
she called libertarians “scum,” “intellectual cranks” and “plagiarists.”
The full article provides more detail and background and you can see it all in the National Post...
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Read More:
National Post
tcorcoran@nationalpost.com
Ayn Rand: Still the most dangerous woman in America | FP Comment | Financial Post
Link: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/09/22/terence-corcoran-ayn-rand-still-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/
Early in his life, Alan Greenspan was a friend and follower of writer Ayn Rand...
.............................................................
Listening to a CBC interview with U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs, prolific best-selling author, renowned statist, Columbia professor, United Nations sideman and an intellectual booster of Occupy Wall Street.
Mr. Sachs delivered all the key words:
- U.S. politics is corrupt,
- Republicans and Democrats are complicit,
- Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Wall Street, a “veneer of democracy,” a system run by greedy Wall Street thugs and
- the rich who “don’t follow the law and don’t pay taxes.”
It was pure Occupyism. But then, unprovoked, Mr. Sachs spontaneously veered off the road into an attack on somebody called Ayn Ran
“The Tea Party, the leaders of it, follow Ayn Rand,” he said. “I don’t know how many people here have read this awful woman.
Absolutely one of the most pathetic personalities. If you read her biography, she was a sad, sad, lonely, nasty woman, because she preached … antagonism to compassion.”
Mr. Sachs, who was promoting his new book,
'The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity'.
He had broken out into a “cold sweat” after reading a section of Rand’s novel, 'Atlas Shrugged', a notorious 100-page speech by one of her characters, John Galt.
Ayn Rand may be long dead, but she seems to have been resurrected as the most dangerous woman in America.
Media references to Ayn Rand have skyrocketed over the last year, many of them elaborate putdowns.
...the phenomenon of Ayn Rand as leftist/liberal ideological nightmare.
Looking out over the economic and ideological landscape of America today — a land of big government, massive debt, pervasive regulation, fiscal cliffs — there is scant evidence that Ayn Rand has had much influence on the political life of the country.
MSNBC’s talk socialist Lawrence O’Donnell:
“Ayn Rand worshiped greed!”
NHL lockout, a Globe and Mail sports writer exposed the evil heart of the conflict.
Some of the NHL owners, wrote Sean Gordon, “subscribe to a stoutly capitalist and virulently anti-union philosophy.
That is to say they’re Randians — adherents to the beliefs of the late polemicist and novelist Ayn Rand.
In Newsweek last week, the novelist Martin Amis, analyzing the Republican convention in Tampa, went after Ryan and fellow Republican Ron Paul as
“anti-abortion libertarians who have managed to distill a few predatory slogans from Ayn Rand’s unreadable novel, Atlas Shrugged...
She saw the unprincipled power seeking of conservatism as more dangerous than liberalism. At least liberals stood for something.
“Today ‘conservatives’ are futile, impotent and, culturally, dead,” she once wrote. “They have nothing to offer and can achieve nothing."
"They can only help to destroy intellectual standards, to disintegrate thought, to discredit capitalism, and to accelerate this country’s uncontested collapse into despair and dictatorship.”
This week, the Ayn Rand Institute in Los Angeles launched a new book :
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government,
- is a summary of Randian theory plugged into current political and economic developments.
Steve Forbes said that Ayn Rand's new book will raise the ire of every statist, socialist and crony capitalist.
Ayn Rand understood that:
1. free markets are moral, while
2. Big Government is manifestly not(moral).
RAND FOLLOWERS appear to be moving in on Washington’s Cato Institute,
a libertarian bastion long headed by Ed Crane but now presided over by John Allison, the Ayn Rand Institute board member.
Rand condemned liberals and conservatives, but had even stronger views about libertarians.
In a 2009 biography of Ayn Rand, author Jennifer Burns records that during Rand’s public speeches:
she called libertarians “scum,” “intellectual cranks” and “plagiarists.”
The full article provides more detail and background and you can see it all in the National Post...
.........................................................
Read More:
National Post
tcorcoran@nationalpost.com
Ayn Rand: Still the most dangerous woman in America | FP Comment | Financial Post
Link: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/09/22/terence-corcoran-ayn-rand-still-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/
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