Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Genius of Ayn Rand ...

... was her ability to persuade the rentier class that they are productive and necessary, and that they are entitled to rule.

2 comments:

  1. It was also a lot easier in the forties and fifties to network everyday along a trail of NYC cocktails parties to sell crock book ideas while smoking on a pack or two of Pall Malls to balance out all the martinis and i-i-deas.

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  2. For the militant anti-theist she was, Rand's sense of election was every bit as strong as the worst kind of Calvinist. "Predestined to be the 1%"

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