Invid Fan <invid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:130920062023155630%invid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <Xns983DA81F4CFE8taustingmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, No 33
> Secretary <terry.notaniceperson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Sea Wasp <seawaspobvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:450890E7.9090406 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> > Kaos wrote:
>> >> on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:10:03 -0400, Invid Fan wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>In article <1157905323.254724.95550@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> >>>Bill Wayne <HWayne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >
>> >>>No different then getting it from a book. Suppose Ayn Rand had
>> >>>skipped the book and done The Fountainhead as a movie. Would the
>> >>>ideas in it have less meaning?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible for it to have less meaning in the first place?
>> >> (Outside of an objectivist "our groupthink isn't groupthink at
>> >> all" camp, that is...)
>> >
>> > Your above comment shows you have either not read, or have not
>> > understood, Rand's philosophy. It is easily possible to show that
>> > her philosophy has FLAWS -- basically the same flaws pure Communism
>> > has, in a dark mirror -- but dismissing it so casually indicates a
>> > failure to grasp it at all.
>> >
>> "I still believe that Rand was a great philosopher. But I am ****fting
>> toward the position that her greatness is as an unhappy example of
>> inadvertent folly."
>>
>> http://home.ca.inter.net/~grantsky/re-evaluating.html
>>
>> The most common description I see of Rand (other than from people who
>> sound like over-excited puppies, that is) is "cult leader." Not
>> someone whose opinions I really care about.
>
> Still, you may find the bio of her in 'Action Philosophers!' fun :)
> (any book that starts off by mentioning Plato was a pro wrestler, then
> drawing him as such for the rest of the comic while getting his
> philosophy right, is well worth reading)
>
Were I in to comic books, that would be interesting. More interesting
than anything _by_ Rand, I suspect.
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