Summoning the Evil Genius

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[Problem Child]

Try me in about nine months. I read to fall asleep.

I think I'm going to get that book Fatherland, that DCL suggested in the other thread. If I do, see me in a year.

 

[Siren]

Ah one of those kind of readers eh

 

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[Problem Child]

Until then, there's always UncleBill. He's probably forgotten more about Ayn Rand and the joys of objectivist philosophy than I will ever hope to learn.

 

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[Never]

Foutainhead..
Okay, read another book.

 

[Dillinger]

Ayn Rand once linked James Joyce to the "beatniks" as an example of the sort of junk that's "admired in English courses."

Anyone who could say something that stupid... fuck the Fountainhead - go read some real literature... try Ulysses.

By the way Rand also said of Gertrude Stein "She is being published, discussed and given more publicity than any real writer. Why? There's no financial profit in it. Just as a joke? I don't think so. It is done--in the main probably quite subconsciously to destroy the mind in literature." Whose, one wonders? "

 

[KillerMuffin]

*wincing* Ayn Rand. Yuck.

Hey, I'm a Republican for gawdddddsakes. I'm diametrically opposed to Ayn Rand.

She's like some anime where the corporation is the evil, vile villian set to take over the world and run the lives of every individual in it's power until some young guy, his crew (including comic relief fat character), and a chick whose either half-cat or 12 flashes panties every other scene. Except she's less exciting and thinks it's the government whose going to uber-control every citizen.

Haven't read her since high school and I never intend to again. She's gone beyond any leanings of leftist philosophy straight into the world is a totalitarian state until we're anarchists! Just as bad as Logan's Run, the movie, was to Christianity. Jeez.

I threw the Fountainhead through a windo a 55 miles per, but made it all the way through Atlas Shrugged before deciding I couldn't adopt such a paranoid philosophy.

Overall, I'd rather read a thesarus.



PC, you're a freak. I orgasm to go to sleep, it works better because it gets all that lovely seratonin running. Books are for metaphorically eating.

 

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[KillerMuffin]

What I fail to understand is how anyone can leave a happy, productive life with that sort of paranoia and total distrust in the government.

I don't fully trust the government myself, I've know what it can do, but I also believe that the system can work, if everyone were to take their voting responsibilities seriously and let their representatives know what they want. I've been called a dewy-eyed optimist for that notion. Though how he knew my eyes were dewy when he couldn't see past my tits is beyond me.

 

[Problem Child]

Fuck it, I'm not reading it now. You hoseheads took all the fun out of it, with all your snobby self-righteous analysis.

I'm just gonna go re-read all my old copies of Penthouse and American Rifleman.

Dorks.

 

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[Problem Child]

When did I ever claim to be an objectivist?


Don't box me in baby.

 

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[Problem Child]

I know that, but like Ms. Muffin, I don't think I'm quite ready to totally abolish all government regulation.

(Gawd, did I really say that?)

 

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[Problem Child]

rock on, catwoman...I put it up because:

A) I know KM will fucking love it, and

B) I know EBW will fucking love it.

 

[on_the_verge]

I have read the Fountain Head twice and I actually keep the Ayn Rand Lexicon from A to Z in my bag. I have a catalog of all authors and literature and media of works related to and about objectivism. You may also want to look into art and writings by the Futurist and the movements.

I always liked Howard Roark's character as it reminds me of my thoughts and visions.