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03-28-2013, 11:11 PM | #1 |
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What Ayn Rand really thought of C.S.Lewis
"Cheap driveling non-entity", "abysmal caricature", "cheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta*physical mediocrity," and "abysmal scum" (and more!)- if you've ever read her works, you'll have noticed she tends to repeat herself.
It's funny to see all these right-wingers in America wrapping themselves in both Jesus and Ayn Rand, when the one thing she hated as much as socialism was religion. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/fir...ted-c-s-lewis/ and ooops, looks like you can't edit thread titles
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03-29-2013, 06:51 AM | #2 |
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We mods can. What would you like the title to be?
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03-29-2013, 07:20 AM | #3 |
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I suspect he meant the small typo. (Now corrected)
I had to look up Ayn Rand. I've been hearing her name and books here and there mentioned with much reference but for the rest, didn't know squidly. But as philosophy ain't my thing, I can now see why. As for these comments, I wonder, did she mean for this to publish? Or did someone simply take her old books and print everything she wrote in the margin? If the latter, I hope no one does that ever with my philosophy schoolbook... |
03-29-2013, 01:59 PM | #4 |
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Yes, or my juvenile sketch book
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03-29-2013, 08:22 PM | #5 |
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There is a reason why I keep those things under lock and key.
One of the reasons I wondered whether she intended to publish this. It sounds a lot like the stuff a teenager would write when they disagreed with something in their text books. But personally I'd write it in my notes, writing commentary on a textbook always felt like vandalising (and we usually had to sell them on). |
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I wonder if she ever had anything to say about JRRT.
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Quote:
Actually a lot of the stuff she wrote sounds like it came from a teenager. The famous quote from blogger Kung Fu Monkey: Quote:
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Quote:
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And this: Quote:
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03-31-2013, 01:20 AM | #9 |
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Yeah, Earniel was right; the typo. I just hate to distract our august Mods with such trivial matters
And thanks for fixing.
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Graymouser, it's okay, not all right-wingers love Ayn Rand. Some of us dislike her mightily (most especially her utopic vision of selfishness).
No love here for Ayn Rand.
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Wow. I just went and read her comments at the First Things article. She was even more juvenile than I thought.
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