Comments on: On whose shoulders stands Atlas http://idiozeitgeist.com/2011/03/06/on-whose-shoulders-stands-atlas/ The blog of St. Chris. Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://idiozeitgeist.com/2011/03/06/on-whose-shoulders-stands-atlas/#comment-926 Andrew Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:46:13 +0000 http://idiozeitgeist.com/?p=609#comment-926 <p>Broadly speaking, what would Rand's counterargument be?</p> Broadly speaking, what would Rand’s counterargument be?

]]> By: Perry http://idiozeitgeist.com/2011/03/06/on-whose-shoulders-stands-atlas/#comment-915 Perry Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:18:57 +0000 http://idiozeitgeist.com/?p=609#comment-915 <p>Written exactly like someone who doesn't understand Rand at all, or who choses not to understand her.</p> <p>Rand has numerous flaws in her ideas, but this isn't one of them. In fact, this particular claim is one she specifically tears into bloody bits in her writing, and very effectively at that. Trying to attack her from a point of strength is either a play to appeal to those who haven't read her books but would like to hate her anyway, or misses the point totally. Or both.</p> <p>BTW, one of the best parts of Rand is that, just when you really want to hate her, just when you want to claim "but who would actually say anything that transparently stupid, and indeed, who would believe that argument", her enemies appear and speak exactly like bad guys in her fiction, almost word for word. Who needs Ellsworth Toohey when you have reality.</p> Written exactly like someone who doesn’t understand Rand at all, or who choses not to understand her.

Rand has numerous flaws in her ideas, but this isn’t one of them. In fact, this particular claim is one she specifically tears into bloody bits in her writing, and very effectively at that. Trying to attack her from a point of strength is either a play to appeal to those who haven’t read her books but would like to hate her anyway, or misses the point totally. Or both.

BTW, one of the best parts of Rand is that, just when you really want to hate her, just when you want to claim “but who would actually say anything that transparently stupid, and indeed, who would believe that argument”, her enemies appear and speak exactly like bad guys in her fiction, almost word for word. Who needs Ellsworth Toohey when you have reality.

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