You have nailed it about the cultural shift towards self- centeredness. But it began earlier than RR. On campus of U. Of Maryland 1967 there was an “Objectivist” group devoted to worship of Ayn Rand, who pushed “the virtue of selfishness.”
You have nailed it about the cultural shift towards self- centeredness. But it began earlier than RR. On campus of U. Of Maryland 1967 there was an “Objectivist” group devoted to worship of Ayn Rand, who pushed “the virtue of selfishness.”
I have a sister and brother-in-law that attended Stanford in the early '80s and worshipped at the altar of Ayn Rand. So many in Silicon Valley were spawned in this culture.
There are no children in her created worlds. Plenty of sex. Her family’s pharmacy business was taken by the state when she was a teen. She had sisters in Russia she never connected with again after she left.
Oh wasn't that awful? "Atlas Shrugged" was the book of the day on college campuses. And then little Paul Ryan wanted it to be a model for our nation...and white male supremacy.
Hope Ah, Paul Ryan. Who remembers this brief flash in a pan with great abs (which he displayed) and the kookiest budget proposals since Reags]an’s ‘trickle down’ tax cuts. His brief reign as Hpuse Speaker was almost as disastrous of that of Newt Gingrich. Ryan did require his staff to read Atlas Shrugged. AWWWk. Now we speak of Ryan shrugged.
You have nailed it about the cultural shift towards self- centeredness. But it began earlier than RR. On campus of U. Of Maryland 1967 there was an “Objectivist” group devoted to worship of Ayn Rand, who pushed “the virtue of selfishness.”
Yes, people who lack imagination. . .
I have a sister and brother-in-law that attended Stanford in the early '80s and worshipped at the altar of Ayn Rand. So many in Silicon Valley were spawned in this culture.
JK Galbraith (FDR’s economist) described conservatives’ age-old search for “a moral justification of selfishness.”
Someone recently put it like this: You can’t tell me what to do. But I can tell you what to do.
She was a phony through and through. As she declared, it’s not who will let me, it’s who will stop me. The chump mantra, including all family
Correct.
Karen,
I read Atlas Shrugged in 1987. After finishing it I wondered where such a skewed picture could emanate from.
Ayn Rand was born in the Soviet Union. Her highly negative view of community was born from the warped view she got in the Soviet Union.
But, her extreme focus on the individual was just as sick and dysfunctional as Soviet Russia was.
There are no children in her created worlds. Plenty of sex. Her family’s pharmacy business was taken by the state when she was a teen. She had sisters in Russia she never connected with again after she left.
So very sad...
Oh wasn't that awful? "Atlas Shrugged" was the book of the day on college campuses. And then little Paul Ryan wanted it to be a model for our nation...and white male supremacy.
Hope Ah, Paul Ryan. Who remembers this brief flash in a pan with great abs (which he displayed) and the kookiest budget proposals since Reags]an’s ‘trickle down’ tax cuts. His brief reign as Hpuse Speaker was almost as disastrous of that of Newt Gingrich. Ryan did require his staff to read Atlas Shrugged. AWWWk. Now we speak of Ryan shrugged.
Good one, Keith! Nice to hear from you again. Happy Fourth!