Ayn Rand Just Another Right Wing Hypocrite

Despite persistent rumors, Rand Paul was not named in honor of influential conservative thinker, Ayn Rand. His name is Randall.

It's good he was not named for Ayn Rand because her real name was Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum which she changed honoring her Rand typewriter.

Miss Rand, famously a believer in rugged individualism and personal responsibility, was a strong defender of self-interest. She was a staunch opponent of government programs from the New Deal and Social Security to the Great Society and Medicare.

A Library of Congress survey of the most influential books on American readers, "Atlas Shrugged" ranked second only to the Bible. Rand's influence is encyclopedic ranging from Alan Greenspan to Paul "I grew up on Ayn Rand" Ryan (R-Wis), a "Young Gun" who aims to cut or privatize Medicare and Social Security.

The Right should be commended politically for their ability to develop and stick to a unified message. But close inspection of this unified message reveals a disappointing secret identified by a student of the Godfather of Neo-conservatism, --- the University of Chicago's Leo Strauss. The student, Anne Norton ("Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire") identified what she called VIP-DIP meaning Venerated in Public, Disdained in Private. "Do as I say, not as I do." The list of vip-dipers on the Right runs from Harold Bloom to Newt Gingrich, but certainly not Ayn Rand. Right?

Say it ain't so Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum.

A heavy smoker who refused to believe that smoking causes cancer brings to mind those today who are equally certain there is no such thing as global warming. Unfortunately, Miss Rand was a fatal victim of lung cancer.

However, it was revealed in the recent "Oral History of Ayn Rand" by Scott McConnell (founder of the media department at the Ayn Rand Institute) that in the end Ayn was a vip-dipper as well. An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).

As Pryor said, "Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out" without the aid of these two government programs. Ayn took the bail out even though Ayn "despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently... She didn't feel that an individual should take help."

But alas she did and said it was wrong for everyone else to do so. Apart from the strong implication that those who take the help are morally weak, it is also a philosophic point that such help dulls the will to work, to save and government assistance is said to dull the entrepreneurial spirit.

In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.

 

Go Ayn! Where Ayn and I differ philosophically, however, is that I'll take any amount of money that you're willing to give me, Moen. In fact, I'll give you my PO Box number and you're more than welcome to send any amount of cash your little heart desires. I'm not going to ask for the money, though... and I'm not going to force you to give me any, either. Please don't send cash. Make your donations in the form of a money order or cashier's check, please. I'll be watching my mailbox...

 

Global warming may turn out to be real, but it is not caused by the human race. Such an ego you have to believe that our pitiful little species can have such an effect on the Earth. Global warming is caused by minor variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun. When the orbit nears the Sun, temperatures rise. It really is that simple! But if you wan't to believe that a chick with an aerosol can of hairspray is responsible, go be the fcuking clown that you are.

Ayn Rand, who cares! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..................................

 

Dr moen, was this your post or did you cut & paste someone elses thoughts?

 

See Michael Ford: Ayn Rand and the VIP-DIPers

 

WOW! Thanks for exposing dr moen's plagarism. Thinks he ever has an orginal thought?

 

Not that I can recall

 

Obviously you understand the concept of plagiarism as well as you understand student loans.

 

I liked 'Atlas Shrugged.' Didnt care for 'The Fountainhead' too much. But I can think of a stereotypical reason she took government compensation. I wont need it, but will probably take it too. After all it belonged to me in the 1st place.

 

And here is what BO got us into

 

How does this relate to Ayn Rand? And who is John Galt?

 

Because I believe that the only purpose of this thread is as a smoke screen to keep the debt from being discussed.

 

Holy $hit. Thats funny You couldve just started another thread.

 

No actually it's a smoke screen to keep people from thinking about the the crime of Bonzi gardening practices. You found me out.

 

I'm with you here. If BO really tried to manipulate S&P to keep the truth from the American people, he needs to be, at the least, prosecuted.
This Madoff-type stuff!

 

But Madoff only messed with a few people. BO is messing with the world's economy when it is said and done.

 

(Yawn.) Oh moen. This wasn't as entertaining as usual. In fact, I'm kind of insulted for wasting my time reading this. Is social security and medicare an entitlement? Yes or no? For some it may be but for most it is not. Unless you somehow managed to live off the grid and not pay taxes your entire life, this is not "help" from the government.

This is money that should have been sitting there available for the people who actually paid into it. Because they robbed what was paid and continue to rob what is being paid in order to pay the bills doesn't mean it's money the govt. is coming up with out of the kindness of their heart. Social security should have a surplus. How many millions never even reach an age to collect but yet paid their entire lives!?!?

I'm not about to feel sorry for them because they have to pay back our own money or that somebody that wasn't happy with the system took it. It's not welfare.