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I do love mentioning her books to see the kind of reactions I get. It's a good test.
A. Do they know her at all
B. Do they hate her
C. Have they even read anything by her or are they just parroting a line.
Ever since I read Atlas Shrugged many years ago I've respected Rand. She doesn't get enough credit. Her influence is incredible actually, regardless of whether people call themselves objectivists or talk about her.
I enjoy watching old clips of her interviews. Besides Ron Paul her writings really were a bIg influence on my thinking. I was drawn to read Atlas because so many people seemed to hate and mock it. But they didn't seem to have read it.. A pattern I've seen repeated over and over again.
I actually prefer some of her other books but Atlas made me think in new ways. To me, she is the prime example of the absurdity of the feminist movement. She is never mentioned in the lists of influential women and yet there is no woman than can touch her influence with Atlas Shrugged alone. If the feminist movement was actually about women she would be at the top of the list but it's not. It's about politics and Rand didn't play their game.
That's lame. They should stop doing stupid stuff going forward. You can reset password. It's not game over.
People thinking it doesn't matter is why they don't do things the right way. It gives them an excuse to be lazy.
This is an interesting statement.
right from the start, from the time someone came up with the word ‘autism’, the condition has been judged from the outside, by its appearances, and not from the inside according to how it is experienced."
(Donna Williams, 1996)
Yes, if people look for differences they will always find them. No matter how slight. We have so much in common. It's not hard to find but many are willfully ignorant of this.
Its no way to live.
Yeah... he has a point. He usually does. That's why he pisses so many people off. There are plenty of jerks with opinions.
The olds aren't all wrong though. Usually they have a few things right. We see this when the pendulum swings back. Yeah, often they are wrong but old people have seen more. But, your point is valid and it should be considered.
Bitcoin will survive and thrive, but that’s not the point. Why embrace the system that bitcoin was created to destroy? Start using it as money, not as a plaything for financiers. Help build a new system from the ground up. Don't worry about Larry. He still has those eth ETFs. He'll survive too.
Yes!
@Undisciplined nails it as usual but I am using the term that I commonly hear. They actually just say capitalism but their working definition is more accurately called crony capitalism. Capitalism can function without the state. Just as there could be socialism without the state. In theory at least. This is was left anarchists and some communists envision. Anarcho-capitalism is the other extreme.