HAHAHA Check this out! (Atlas Shrugged is the worst book ever!)
Except from Mr. Turnbull’s rant:
These acolytes called themselves “Objectivists,” because they believed in a race of super-humans, of which Rand was the most perfect, who supposedly had the ability to objectively perceive the universe around them. Naturally, the Objectivists believe that they themselves are among these super-humans.
Surrounded by devotees who worshipped at her feet, Ayn Rand became convinced that anyone who disagreed with her about literally anything—for example, someone who didn’t share her preference for Rachmaninoff over Mozart or vanilla ice cream over chocolate ice cream—was evil and deserved to die.
Smoking cigarettes; worshipping Ayn Rand; praising Atlas Shrugged; and taking part in an assortment of bizarre, vaguely Klingon sex rituals are similarly considered to be morally obligatory. Objectivist women are required to worship Objectivist men, the men worship Ayn Rand, and Ayn Rand herself worshipped John Galt.
These acolytes called themselves “Objectivists,” because they believed in a race of super-humans, of which Rand was the most perfect, who supposedly had the ability to objectively perceive the universe around them. Naturally, the Objectivists believe that they themselves are among these super-humans.
Surrounded by devotees who worshipped at her feet, Ayn Rand became convinced that anyone who disagreed with her about literally anything—for example, someone who didn’t share her preference for Rachmaninoff over Mozart or vanilla ice cream over chocolate ice cream—was evil and deserved to die.
Smoking cigarettes; worshipping Ayn Rand; praising Atlas Shrugged; and taking part in an assortment of bizarre, vaguely Klingon sex rituals are similarly considered to be morally obligatory. Objectivist women are required to worship Objectivist men, the men worship Ayn Rand, and Ayn Rand herself worshipped John Galt.
SOURCE URL: https://hmturnbull.com/opinion/atlas-shrugged/
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I do have to say this article is sugar candy to lefties and is presented in a very professional propagandist way: Point out just enough facts (Rand smoked cigarettes) to act as a spear head to ram forth all the BS.
Same old. When receiving maximum flak, must be right over the target.
I used to be in the Tea Party. But the Media had people HONESTLY believing we were semi-terroristic and white supremacist. I was recruiting younger people, and they were like "I like the ideas, but I could never tell my peers... They believe "
It was crazy. Every rally I attended was peaceful (except when others started crap), and we cleaned up before we left, like RATIONAL people.
Meanwhile, check out the garbage left behind by the OTHER groups that are "well regarded" by the media...
I hate 'em all, but it gives me a HUGE heads up on the new "in" wording, and where the country is going politically, at least what they WANT to happen. And believe it or not, an occasional science program I couldn't find anywhere else.
I was at first tempted to say he didn’t read the book. But he seems to have read it but with a very biased viewpoint. Honestly his descriptions of the romance between Dagny and Hank seem a little rapey. Which says more about him than anything else.