[the path to prosperity. the galtian path. Don't forget the kool-aid]I knew it! When Ryan gave his Republican budget plan and then said
he was a fan of Ayn Rand, he was risking being labelled a psycho,
so he must be the reincarnation of the Randy one.
She/he has returned to start a Galtian revolution, and take away all
the self-made US industrialists (all 5 of them), and all the otherr
wankers who think they fit the bill (Greenspan, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, any number of bankers)
Your God is here, so stop doing God's work and go with Ryan, FAR AWAY!
Some ideas?
How about some of the places that businesses have polluted beyond redemption,
because their industrialist streak also has the taint of corruption and
environmental immaturity.
Gulf of Mexico
Bikini Atoll
Fukushima
or heaven, doing God's work
[a galtian rapture]-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout:
from the New Republic
Paul Ryan And Ayn Rand
Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor
* December 28, 2010 | 1:57 pm
Another part of Christopher Beam's piece on libertarianism that caught my interest was this bit about Paul Ryan and his deep affinity for Ayn Rand:
Representative Paul Ryan, also of Wisconsin, requires staffers to read Atlas Shrugged, describes Obama’s economic policies as “something right out of an Ayn Rand novel,” and calls Rand “the reason I got involved in public service.”
Earlier this year I wrote about Ryan and his deep devotion to the philosophy of Rand, particularly her inverted Marxist economic-political worldview:
Ryan would retain some bare-bones subsidies for the poorest, but the overwhelming thrust in every way is to liberate the lucky and successful to enjoy their good fortune without burdening them with any responsibility for the welfare of their fellow citizens. This is the core of Ryan's moral philosophy:
"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand," Ryan said at a D.C. gathering four years ago honoring the author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." ...
At the Rand celebration he spoke at in 2005, Ryan invoked the central theme of Rand's writings when he told his audience that, "Almost every fight we are involved in here on Capitol Hill ... is a fight that usually comes down to one conflict--individualism versus collectivism."
The core of the Randian worldview, as absorbed by the modern GOP, is a belief that the natural market distribution of income is inherently moral, and the central struggle of politics is to free the successful from having the fruits of their superiority redistributed by looters and moochers.
Ross Douthat furiously objected, dismissing Ryan's relationship as him having "said kind words about Ayn Rand," as if he had merely offered pro forma praise at a banquet. I think at this point trying to deny Ryan's attachment to Rand is pretty hard to sustain. He's not requiring his staffers to read Ran because he thinks they need a good love story. And given that it's not just a teenage fascination but the continuing embodiment of his public philosophy, it's worth noting again that Rand is a twisted, hateful thinker.
ALSO BY CHAIT: (from Jonathanturley.org)
"“Ayn Rand, of course, was a kind of politicized L. Ron Hubbard—a novelist-philosopher who inspired a cult of acolytes who deem her the greatest human being who ever lived. The enduring heart of Rand’s totalistic philosophy was Marxism flipped upside down. Rand viewed the capitalists, not the workers, as the producers of all wealth, and the workers, not the capitalists, as useless parasites.”" [well, they certainly have their hands on most of the money and the power, but that only proves corruption- Costick67]
