re: Hugh Freeze Quote Ayn Rand????

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Well, I could write a couple thousand words that further described why the book and her philosophy are not only sound but have shown to play out as true but I already get enough of a hard time about writing essays here. Besides this is a football board and not politics.

If you have read Atlas Shrugged and truly think Rand was an idiot then more power to you. Rand was all about the right of the individual to have freedom and operate in their self interest. I do agree that Shrugged is not a great novel in that it is meant to explain her philosophy more than to really tell a story, in a lot of ways I compare it to some of Orwell's work but he was a better pure writer even if he wasn't as strong of a philosopher though obviously Orwell was a socialist. I think everyone should read 1984 and Animal Farm as well. By the same token if you read Thomas Sowell you should also read Noam Chomsky.

Mainly though, there is no weaker argument against a philosophy than to simply denigrate those who have read it or agree with it by calling them names.

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Rand's philosophy is dogshit. There isn't an Objectivist philsophy school and there isn't, to my knowledge, a single Objectivist in any philosophy dept in any academic institution in the country (well, I won't count out Liberty U or some such other school). She has tremendous influence among laypeople b/c her philosophy is extremely seductive: no matter how you act towards people, you're right! Reductio ad absurdum, I know, but this is a football forum as you noted.

I think you may be confusing Rand's philosophy w/ laissez-faire economics, of which she was a great supporter. It's a rather common mistake. However, the former is a laughingstock, the latter is the foundation of the global economy.