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You may also like. That said, I get the Ayn attraction. We like our heroes to be rugged individualists who pull themselves up by their bootstraps; Horatio Alger rags-to-riches successes; quiet, manly types raised in log cabins with three walls, who walked ten miles in the snow twice a day to go to school, who rose to the top by virtue of their own God-given talents and sheer determination—and not because their old man was a knight of the realm, or a landed aristocrat, or the governor of Michigan.
We conveniently forget that this is mythology, that no one succeeds by him- or herself, that Horatio Alger stories are just that: stories. Like summer movies based on comic books, it has a wide appeal, and like summer movies based on comic books, it fails to grasp the nuances of a real world that is all nuance. This seems to be beyond the reckoning of Paul Ryan, who regards Ayn Rand in the same way tween girls do Taylor Lautner. In short, your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Her call to selfishness and her antagonism toward religion are antithetical to the Gospel values of compassion and love.
And this buffoon is who Mitt Romney has tapped to be his second banana! If this is what passes for smart in the GOP, if this nincompoop is really the conservative fountainhead of Ideas, we are all doomed. But then, Romney the Latter Day Saint probably admires a guy who believes so passionately in the contents of a book that any rational human being can tell is pure fantasy.
I read Rand as a teenager and I remember thinking, OK, this is kind of interesting — because to a teenager the notion that a single person could make a difference in an entire society was compelling — but then unlike Ryan and the other morons I spent a little time thinking about it.
And then I stopped thinking about it, because even as a young person I realized it was utter nonsense. The wet dream of the vulgar solipsist. People like Ryan and the Tea Baggers have no understanding of society not to mention ecology in the largest sense. This is irrefutable. This astonishing disconnect has a lot of do with why these fucking morons say the moronic things they do.
And, by the way, to the extent that they do understand what social science has shown and continues to show, it explains why they hate it. I wonder if Paul Ryan is a psychopath.
Not in a violence-prone manner, but more generally. Many influential power- brokers in politics and industry exhibit the symptoms. Lack of empathy is one of the traits of this type of personality.
We all want to help the poor and the needy, but they should obey the law, that is for admittance. They do not have to obey wrong laws, such as abortion clinics. It says so in Galatians. Amazing to me that we have a President who went under a totally different name, has associations with known subversives and we still have not seen his college transcripts……and there are people questioning above?
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