Ayn Rand

**Strike For The South** · 07-02-2011, 04:25

Will someone explain the obessison with this B-grade "philosipher" to me

How anyone in the west can see her amoral pursuit of materialism as something to be emulated is beyond

She wants to be part of the bugeroise so bad it HURTS

**Lemur** · 07-02-2011, 04:35

It's also passing strange that she has become a luminary for a political group that generally identifies with traditional values, given that she was violently anti-christian. Strange stuff.

**lars573** · 07-02-2011, 23:31

Originally Posted by Lemur

It's also passing strange that she has become a luminary for a political group that generally identifies with traditional values, given that she was violently anti-christian. Strange stuff.

Naw her worst crime is seducing Steve Ditko to her way of thinking.

**Adrian II** · 07-03-2011, 01:36

I have no idea why people would parrot her idiotic views. What I do know is that she was a horrifically bad writer. Like Psychonaut said, anybody who suggests that her novels are a good read should be summarily executed and left in a ditch.

AII

**PanzerJaeger** · 07-03-2011, 04:15

Will someone please explain the obsession among newly enlightened college kids and pseudo intellectuals with Ayn Rand? This is, at least, the third thread about this woman we've had in Backroom alone, and none of them have been from fans - and that trend isn't limited to the .org. It's kind of like how every 13 year old 'conservative' who wants to be like his daddy feels the need to take Marx apart on an internet forum, as if it has never been done before.

**Strike For The South** · 07-03-2011, 04:19

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Will someone please explain the obsession among newly enlightened college kids and pseudo intellectuals with Ayn Rand?

Let the record show I was an arrogant pseudo intellectual before college.

This is, at least, the third thread about this woman we've had in Backroom alone, and none of them have been from fans - and that trend isn't limited to the .org. It's kind of like how every 13 year old 'conservative' who wants to be like his daddy feels the need to take Marx apart on an internet forum, as if it has never been done before.

U Mad Bro?

**Lemur** · 07-03-2011, 15:31

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Will someone please explain the obsession among newly enlightened college kids and pseudo intellectuals with Ayn Rand?

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that politicians are crafting social-engineering schemes based on her theories? That would tend to excite the natives.

If a serving politico publicly declared his allegiance to the writing of L. Ron Hubbard or Karl Marx, it would be fair game to drag their rotting corpses out and demonstrate how empty their philosophies were. In this case, we have a group of politicians who not only admire Rand but are basing their ideology on Gault's Gulch. So Rand is relevant and a fair target.

**naut** · 07-02-2011, 04:37

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Will someone explain the obessison with this B-grade "philosipher" to me

Whenever someone has told or suggested that I read Atlas Shrugged I feel the urge to end their existence....

**Fragony** · 07-04-2011, 16:51

Originally Posted by Psychonaut

Whenever someone has told or suggested that I read Atlas Shrugged I feel the urge to end their existence....

It is still a classic that had an impact so I wanted to read it, wasn't so bad imho. Bit like a modern day 'Utopia'.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 07-02-2011, 04:58

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Will someone explain the obessison with this B-grade "philosipher" to me

How anyone in the west can see her amoral pursuit of materialism as something to be emulated is beyond

She wants to be part of the bugeroise so bad it HURTS

Because people are selfish and want to justify their selfish actions. As long as you act under the banner of Ayn Rand's motto of let people work things out for themselves, you can feel good about stomping on them because, hey, obviously they didn't work hard enough.

**Major Robert Dump** · 07-02-2011, 08:17

Wait, didn't you say Atlas Shrugged was going to be the best movie ever? Or was that sarcasm? Texans are hard to read when they aren't drunk.

**gaelic cowboy** · 07-02-2011, 12:05

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Will someone explain the obessison with this B-grade "philosipher" to me

How anyone in the west can see her amoral pursuit of materialism as something to be emulated is beyond

She wants to be part of the bugeroise so bad it HURTS

I would say it's because she beguiled and bewitched a few men who ended up being important people later on Alan Greespan being the most damaging of all them I would say.

Also as has been pointed out the majority of her views are diametrically opposed to the people who big her up today tis confusing indeed.