Galt's Gulch

SURPRISE! Another reviewer gets the philosophy of Atlas wrong.

Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 7 months ago to Entertainment
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"Ayn Rand’s 'screw poor people and the Middle Class' philosophy is so offensive..."

I guess I missed the book he's describing.

In stellar fashion, the author of this hack job of a review reveals that he apparently forgot to take his medication the day he wrote this garbage.

Oh yeah... and he forgot to actually read the book too.
SOURCE URL: http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/atlas-shrugged-twice-and-now-we-wait-for-a-third-shrug/2013/07/08

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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 12 years, 7 months ago
    What a waste to 2 TV commercials in my DVR'd Lava Chasers to read his tripe. This part explains a lot about him. More worried about looking cool and smart than actually engaging his brain: "Remember in college, how proud you were to be lugging around that soft cover copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses? “That’s right mofos, I’m reading Ulysses and I understand it!”

    Silly me. I wasn't worried about being proud of lugging around a book I wasn't going to read to impress someone else who also wasn't going to read it. I've also never said mofos.
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    • Posted by ShruginArgentina 12 years, 7 months ago
      When I was in college in 1969-1973 I occasionally carried a copy of "The Objectivist" on top of whatever textbook I was lugging around.

      I met one of the smartest men I have ever known as a result. He approached me in a logic class after seeing the magazine. He had read all of Rand's works of fiction by then as well and had seen the subscription cards for the magazine that were inserted in the paperback versions.

      The author of the review doesn't care about reality or if anything he writes is true.

      He does, however, want his readers to remember and believe his biggest lie:

      "The reality is, we’re already living in an objectivist society and it’s killing us. We don’t really need to see what would happen if the Randians had their way — we’re seeing it happen now."

      It would be easy to say that anyone who thinks that we are living in an Objectivist society now just doesn't know what he his talking about, but the author knows what he writes isn't true...and that's what makes it so offensive.
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  • Posted by LeeCrites 12 years, 7 months ago
    You only see what you look for -- if you do not look for it, you will not see it.

    I have shown people physical evidence, in my hands, to their face, and had them reject the truth and walk away. If they will not see the truth, nothing, *nothing* we do or say will convince them otherwise.

    Looks like this is one of those folks.
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  • Posted by C_S 12 years, 7 months ago
    It's interesting, isn't it, that the more you know about real literature - and yes, that includes "Ulysses" - the more you think Rand was a histrionic hack with characters more wooden than a cigar store Indian, flatter than Kansas, and with dialogue so unbelievably awful the soaps would have turned it down. The ones who hated Rand the most? Generally, the ones who read her. I read "The Fountainhead" when I was an undergrad, and ye gods and little fishes, it's still the worst book I've ever read, thirty years later.

    Raise your hand, folks, if you're read both "Ulysses" and "Paradise Lost." I have. So has the guy who wrote this. Have you?
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  • Posted by Spinkane 12 years, 7 months ago
    The author of this article jumped all around and never made a point, he just assumed it . Like most progressives I’ve talked with they never make a logical argument. Trying to understand the opposing argument against the philosophy in AS is like nailing jelly to a wall. Two new facts that came out this week: 101,000,000 US Americans get food assistance from tax dollars and there is a new regulation on the average of every 2.9 seconds.; not exactly Galt’s gulch. We are outnumbered and things will get worse. Rand Paul anyone?
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 12 years, 7 months ago
    I first read AS in my twenties and heard the same crap as this idiot is spouting."So it came as a complete shock to me there are people in this world that take Ayn Rand and her “Objectivist” philosophy seriously. In fact, Ayn Rand and her two books of note really didn’t pique my interest or attention again after that semester — for decades..." Nothing has changed in the last 45 years. Its always delivered with the same faux superiority "do you really take this stuff seriously? Take my word for it, none of these buffoons are brave enough to stand up to a debate on AR's Objectivism.
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  • Posted by Adam 12 years, 7 months ago
    Rocky, I apologize; your post didn't appear to me to address anything that I had said, so I thought that there had been an error. But, I deleted it because I should have lurked for a while before posting.

    So, would you please be kind enough to overlook the faux pas? I don't want to argue with any of you.
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  • Posted by LeeCrites 12 years, 7 months ago
    I just realized what he was doing -- so I had to come log back in and post this:

    Rush Limbaugh has a phrase "the low information voters." (Yea, I listen to him every once in a while for the entertainment value. He actually does have a few good points now and then.)

    This dude is not talking to the sentient folks of the world -- he is talking to the "low information voters" who couldn't tell the truth from pile of frog poop. He has to say this kind of thing in order to "save them" from the truth. There is a chance one of his readers might actually watch the movies, and then go read the book -- and they'd instantly transform from a sheeple to a striker!

    I know I did...
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  • Posted by DragonLady 12 years, 7 months ago
    Typical review from someone who missed every idea in the book, but what can you expect? He's obviously a product of "modern" education, and so doesn't know how to think logically and clearly (or think at all!). A prime example of someone who's swallowed the party line (or the kool aid). Just another radical hysterical rant against something he doesn't understand.
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    • Posted by C_S 12 years, 7 months ago
      Another one of those lies Rand fans tell themselves: if someone didn't find the book just the Greatest Thing Ever, if they dare consider Rand a fourth-rate writer, then push the "I blame his education" button, push the "He didn't understand what he was condemning" button, push the "He's just a shrieking hysteric" button -- but don't *ever* reach for the "But maybe Rand isn't as superlatively good as we tell each other she is" button. Because that's the button that leads you out of your little post-adolescent adolescence and into the real world.
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