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Try Anthem. It's much shorter and sums up her repellent philiosphy very well. Oh, and my favorite part (as in it made me throw the book at the wall when I read it in Gr 11): when the man and his "Golden One" escape the nasty socialist hive-mind city and find a house in the country, they enter and he goes nuts over the library with books! ideas! whilst the chick goes nuts over the clothes. I'd call Rand a cunt but that's an insult to cunts.

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ORC LIBEL!

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The reporter should have asked if they listened to Rush Limbaugh.

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According to its website, the Ayn Rand Institution is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The ten "selfish" reasons to donate money to it include:

"I want to defend free markets and the moral virtue of making a profit. I want to liberate businessmen from the shackles of government regulation so that I can benefit from the innovation and prosperity of a free economy."

I know I'm old enough to know better, but the utter, complete lack of self-awareness on the part of so-many "conservatives" (reactionaries) continues to astonish me.

Why isn't the Ayn Rand Institution a healthy, for-profit enterprise? Didn't she collect royalties from her books? Or has her philosophy been dope-slapped by the invisible hand?

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No because that slut enjoyed it. Duh!

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Also in Europe they know that incredibly good bread, cheese, and wine can be amazingly affordable. Supply your own friend to share them with and boom, happiness.

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I'm personally a fan of "fuck off you wanker".

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England... if you like the weather you'll LOVE the food!

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That's my favorite!

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Randians' notions of political philosophy got frozen at the age when they first read her drivel, and never developed to the point of realizing that where individual rights are in conflict, there is a legitimate role for collective intervention to ensure the minimum net reduction of global rights in the resolution of that conflict. This is the major reason that "objectivism" and humanism reach such starkly different conclusions despite beginning from similar principles. Well, that and the mindless promotion of the right to exclusive private property up to the level of equality with the right to life.

But then, what do you expect from those who worship at the altar of a woman who <a href="http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/145819\/ayn_rand%2C_hugely_popular_author_and_inspiration_to_right-wing_leaders%2C_was_a_big_admirer_of_serial_killer" target="_blank">idealized a particularly brutal murderer</a>?

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I always thought it was Haaaaaaaaaarumphhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!11! My mistake.

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That's a big part of it, but also having emerged from numerous different iterations of systems based on slavery or its close analogs, they've also realized that money is not happiness, it is a tool which can sometimes be used to increase happiness, and as such they have decided to prioritize increasing quality of life over increasing nominal monetary wealth.

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Plus it's a 250 page story that somehow fills about a thousand pages. Or maybe it just seemed that way the one time I tried to read it.

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Do these people realize that there is a phrase in the Constitution about providing for the common welfare? Would they then realize that their holy trinity of the Constitution, Ayn Rand's works and the Bible just DO NOT WORK TOGETHER?

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Is the Ayn Rand Institute the place to work for people who can't cut it at R. Bent Bozo the Turd's "Media Research Center"/Newsbusters website?

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If a very intellectually advanced toddler wrote a book justifying his snatching the best toy horse away from the other kid, these people would buy it.

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