<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dperrin@comcast.net href="mailto:dperrin@comcast.net">Dennis Perrin</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:58 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: me and ayn</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>> Curiously, I've had humanist, socialist tendancies long before I had<BR>> a clue what those things were, and for years I counted [Rand's] books as<BR>part of<BR>> the body of things I'd read that got me to that place.  Wierd huh?<BR><BR>Not really. Rand was an atheist, pro-choice, and above all a materialist.<BR>And while she viciously dismissed the basic idea underlying charity, i.e.<BR>that selflessness and the giving to others was a form of slavery, she<BR>demanded near-total obedience to her doctrines by her selected circle,<BR>called, "ironically," The Collective. (Read Barbara Branden's book to get a<BR>ringside seat to this crowd.) Her work is practically unreadable, turgid,<BR>long-winded and humorless. But the cult that grew in her shadow displayed<BR>some amusing and entertaining behavior.<BR><BR>I once dated an Objectivist -- for the sex, of course, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>i'm glad this isn't one of those kiss and tell e-mails.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>as the discussion<BR>following proved mind-numbing beyond belief.<BR><BR>DP<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>