Re: An Open Letter To Open-Minded Progressives

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:09:30 -0500, "skysi" <feur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"raven1" <quoththeraven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:20:00 -0500, "skysi" <feur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>"raven1" <quoththeraven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:08:32 -0500, "?????? ????????"
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>>>>>Folks, read works of Ayn Rand and a lot of your confusion in life,
>>>>>politics
>>>>>and economics will go away.
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>>>> 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".
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>>>Hmm... and what exactly did you read to come up with the conclusion.
Care 
>>>to
>>>comment on examples of muddle-headedness?
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>> The entirety of the philosophy contained in "Atlas Shrugged" and "The
>> Fountainhead" would be a good start.
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>Yes, It's a good start,

Missed the point much?

> but only in a poetic sense. What you see in Atlas 
>Shrugged and Fountainhead is a condensed idea.
>It is impossible to lay out your entire philosophy in detail in a novel.
>Here's what she wrote in  "For the New Intelectual" which was an
organised 
>collection of exerpts from her previous works :
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>The full system is implicit in these excerpts (particularly in Galt's
>speech)

Galt's speech is a prime example of what I mean; as the Caterpillar
put it to Alice in another literary work, "it is wrong from beginning
to end".