> Carl Remick wrote:
>
> >[A tribute to Ayn Rand, who ranks with Barbara Cartland and Elinor
> >Glyn as one of the most successful romance novelists of all time.
> >(Fav quote here, from Rand devotee Alan Greenspan: "Parasites who
> >persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.")]
> [J] It's an interesting fantasy. The labouring class disappears (reduced to
> that mysterious "free energy"), while the artists and the intelligentsia
> and the uberbusinessmen take over. It's kind of like a soft-porn version
> of Nietzche with a dab of Stakhanov.
[C] I must say Alan Greenspan is a curious vision of an Übermensch. One thing's for sure: He is no mensch.
> [J] What makes it interesting to me is
> the notion of a strike by the intelligentsia. (Has that ever happened?)
[C] Sort of. Here in the US the intelligentsia is clearly conducting a job action. It is still thinking but coming up with only poor ideas ;-)
Carl