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One More for the Ayn Rand Deprogrammer
Category: Ayn Rand Deprogrammer
Posted on: November 13, 2009 11:24 AM, by Chris H







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Nietzsche philosophized with a sledgehammer, Rand with a crayon.
Posted by: Ericb | November 13, 2009 12:42 PM
Great article. Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted by: Richard Crawford | November 13, 2009 2:42 PM
The sad thing I've found about Rand fanatics is that they are almost always the very "simpletons" they supposedly despise. The only people I see "going Galt" are trailer park living, non-educated leeches, who think they're somehow in the top 1% of the country because they make $30K per year when the rest of the trailer park makes $20K.
Yes, please! Go Galt!! My taxes will go down for sure!
Posted by: Jennifer | November 14, 2009 3:50 PM
Funnily enough, the only people I've ever known who really did anything like "going Galt" were all hippies.
Posted by: Dunc | November 18, 2009 11:37 AM
Funnily enough on the other side of things, a sizeable majority of the people I've ever met who were hardcore Objectivists/free-marketers/etc. were also jobless and dependent on their parents or other relatives.
I guess it's easy to pretend that everyone can bootstrap themselves (and those who don't are worthless leeches) when you've never even had to try.
Posted by: Akusai | November 20, 2009 1:58 AM
I always found it fascinating that people advocate Going Galt. Who builds your mansions, cleans them, and parks your car when you're away from all the leeches?
Posted by: Rutee | December 9, 2009 12:03 PM
A truly horrifying corrective to incipient Objectivism is to be found at http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=GOAT-RANDY&Category_Code=GOAT.
Merry Christmas to all.
Posted by: Lars | December 24, 2009 7:39 PM