Ayn Rand

[loupaulsen at attbi.com]

> Has anyone noticed how basically stupid the Randites are? I mean 
> mental age of 11 seems to be where they get stuck. (Perhaps that's why they 
> worship "genius.") They don't even realize that this war is going to be a 
> disaster economically; they don't even realize that their OWN INTERESTS are 
> going to be hurt.
> 
> Joanna

Oh, I don't know that it's fair to say they're stupid.  It's like any system 
of faith, Catholicism for example.  Not everyone can be Thomas Aquinas.  As 
for interests, Randism is flexible; when you want to do something that doesn't 
make you money immediately, you say you're doing it 'in the name of the best 
within us' or 'true selfishness' or something.  

The funny ones are the ZON POWER objectivists who claim to have 
proven 'objectively' that ZON POWER objectivism will bring you immortality.  
It drives the garden variety objectivists up a wall.

LP