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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

    The Bitch is Back, by Andrew Corsello: "2009's most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick. She died in 1982, but her spawn soldier on. And the Great Recession is all their fault..."

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    1

    Nietzsche philosophized with a sledgehammer, Rand with a crayon.

    Posted by: Ericb | November 13, 2009 12:42 PM

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    Great article. Thanks for pointing it out.

    Posted by: Richard Crawford | November 13, 2009 2:42 PM

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    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

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    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

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    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

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