Re: An Open Letter To Open-Minded Progressives

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:08:32 -0500, "?????? ????????" <feurio@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Folks, read works of Ayn Rand and a lot of your confusion in life,
politics 
>and economics will go away. 

That would be a feat, given Rand's total muddle-headedness on each of
the topics. Like Marxism, Libertarianism is an excellent example of
"nice idea, wrong species".

>You probably heard of Atlas Shrugged,

A political polemic in the form of an excruciatingly long and poorly
written novel. One of those books about which it can be said that "it
does not permit itself to be read".

> but that's 
>not enough.
>She is the founder of philosophy of Objectivism. 

Which carries as much weight around alt.atheism as being the founder
of Scientology.

>The fundamentals of her 
>philosophy are set forth in such nonfiction books as:
>For the New Intelectual, The virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism: The
Unknown 
>Ideal., and Romantic Manifesto. Also read the following: Introduction to 
>Objectivist Epistemology, edited by Harry Bibswanger and leonard Peikoff.
>
>This will open your eyes on a lot of things.

Such as why most Randroids tend to be socially inept 15-16 year old
males?