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Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/7/2011 7:03:47 PM

lazarus1983

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So while re-reading The Fountainhead, this passage stuck out to me:

"When the fact that one is a total nonentity who's done nothing more outstanding than eating, sleeping and chatting with neighbors becomes a fact worthy of pride, of announcement to the world and of diligent study by millions of readers - the fact that one has built a cathedral becomes unrecordable and unannounceable."

The first thing that went through my head when I read this was twitter. Does anyone else agree/disagree? What are your thoughts?

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 4:59:50 AM

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The celebration of nonetities was going on long before Twitter, I'm afraid. Just look at the Rand cult's esteem for Frank O'Connor, who spent fifty years doing pretty much fuck all besides being Mister Ayn Rand.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 5:20:48 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: lazarus1983

So while re-reading The Fountainhead, this passage stuck out to me:

"When the fact that one is a total nonentity who's done nothing more outstanding than eating, sleeping and chatting with neighbors becomes a fact worthy of pride, of announcement to the world and of diligent study by millions of readers - the fact that one has built a cathedral becomes unrecordable and unannounceable."

The first thing that went through my head when I read this was twitter. Does anyone else agree/disagree? What are your thoughts?

To be honest, my first thought was not Twitter but Paris Hilton, but then she does a lot of other things that might not be noteworthy but are damned stupid...

On 2nd thoughts, it could be a commentary on Big Brother and other reality shows, I seriously don't get the fascination with watching others just being in a house, eating, sleeping and talking to each other, why would anybody want to know?

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 11:11:12 AM

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why you reading that crap?

she is a nit wit.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 11:21:41 AM

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Always lovely to see such well-thought-out, intelligent replies...

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 11:23:05 AM

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... it could be a commentary on Big Brother and other reality shows ...

So true. Have you noticed we're only about 2 steps away from "Ow, My Balls!" from "Idiocracy"? I can see that show being the next step after "Jackass" and "Survivor".

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 11:23:46 AM

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why you reading that crap?

she is a nit wit.

Well so are you.

Elaborate, please.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 11:44:18 AM

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why you reading that crap?

she is a nit wit.

Well so are you.

Elaborate, please.

They talk about her on the silver board- like she is some sort of gift to humanity.

She sounds hateful to me.

Cutting off all programs.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 11:46:26 AM

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If you want a book- Tragedy and Hope is a good one.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 11:53:26 AM

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

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ORIGINAL: lazarus1983

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

why you reading that crap?

she is a nit wit.

Well so are you.

Elaborate, please.

They talk about her on the silver board- like she is some sort of gift to humanity.

She sounds hateful to me.

Cutting off all programs.

So you're basing your whole opinion of her on what other people have said?

Sooooo...do you have any direct knowledge of her?

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 3:54:22 PM

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Twitter? I think of reality tv, myself.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 3:57:22 PM

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Twitter? I think of reality tv, myself.

Reality tv reminds me more of the wall talkies from Fahrenheit 451.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/8/2011 7:57:59 PM

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[/quote]

So you're basing your whole opinion of her on what other people have said?

Sooooo...do you have any direct knowledge of her?
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I know Rand is one of the biggest hypocrites who ever lived. She spoke volumes against social programs like Medicare but then didn't see a problem with taking from the government when she got sick and benefited from Medicare. No wonder Rand has become a goddess to the Republican party.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/9/2011 4:32:26 AM

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She was an immigrant as well, come to that. You would have thought that might have cooled a lot of the hard right (she's big with libertarians and armed camps as well as the Republicans' neocon wing) on bigging her up somewhat...

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/9/2011 6:34:00 AM

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Yes, nothing says neocon like the most outspoken pro choice atheist you can find.

The tea party people also like to advocate her, but they too have no idea what she's about.

In her essays she tears down the belief that America was in any way a christian nation. She derides religion as irrational mysticism. In particular she targets the Catholic church because of their opposition to abortion and birth control.

True, she took Medicaid whenn she was dying. Her argument, which is tenuous, is that she has had to pay into it all her life, and when a robber offers you some of your money back, is it moral to take it?

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/9/2011 7:51:36 AM

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And that argument was a bullshit attempt to weasel her way out of one of the moral absolutes she'd spent her whole career as writer blathering about. Dying or not, it's still hypocrisy.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/9/2011 9:13:25 AM

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That's true.

Now care to comment on what else I posted?

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/9/2011 9:21:18 AM

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That the tea party have no interest in anything else she had to say besides her opposition to taxation? I thought that was a given. They're good at picking and choosing specific bits out of the bible and ignoring the rest of that, as well.
(The religious arguments are more The Fountainhead than Atlas Shrugged though, aren't they? The latter's the big Rand text for the teabaggers...)

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/9/2011 9:25:35 AM

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Neither, actually. Her opposition to religion can be found throughout her essays.

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RE: Ayn Rand Predicted Twitter - 8/9/2011 9:26:43 AM

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The beneficent captain of industry was her god. (and like YHWH, they don't exist either).

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