Comments on: Celebrity Randians

By: Michael Hardesty

Michael Hardesty — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:24:30 +0000

Are we still arguing Darwin here ? Many
atheists are libertarians or Objectivists
or anarcho-capitalists, not liberals or Marxists.

By: Tony M

Tony M — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:00:08 +0000

Jeremiah is right. Why is this news? If not Rand, it would be some liberal, darwinist or atheist b.s they have as their lifeforce.

By: Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:21:30 +0000

Moderation took a while, Michael. Sorry for the delay. I’m approving the comments while I’m on the road.

By: Michael Hardesty

Michael Hardesty — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:27:12 +0000

What happened to the comment I just left a few minutes ago ?

By: Michael Hardesty

Michael Hardesty — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:09:51 +0000

NGW, that’s sad. Since Rand loves man and man is part of nature how could she hate nature per se ? She loathed statist environmentalists, there is a difference. On atheism just break it up with an extra syllable, a-theist. Like theist
but with an extra letter.
Jack, yes.
George, twenty times in forty nine years.
Jeremiah, all those big words ! Wow ! Always nice to have the Portable Kirk nearby.

By: NGW

NGW — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:37:55 +0000

I thought it was great at 23, i read the fountainhead five times..but some things always bugged me about Rand, her atheism, her hatred of nature, now, at 43, I can’t read her writing without wincing and feeling slightly embarrassed about myself.

By: Jack Tracey

Jack Tracey — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:18:09 +0000

Pretty impressive, Mr Hardesty. So, do you know Brad Pitt, too?

By: George Hawley

George Hawley — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:09:56 +0000

I’ve learned something during my short time here at AmCon: if you want a lot of comments, say something unkind about Ayn Rand.

Atlas Shrugs 20 times? Apparently Objectivists have a lot of time on their hands.

By: Jeremiah Whitmoore

Jeremiah Whitmoore — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:24:37 +0000

So a scattering of execrable celebrities seek to justify their loathsome avarice with the philosophy of egoism, godlessness, and narcissism. Hardly unsurprising.

By: Michael Hardesty

Michael Hardesty — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:29:33 +0000

Brad Pitt’s quote was about Atlas Shrugged.
As far as Greenspan goes if he had been an
acolyte of Objectivism he never would have
taken the Fed job. In the 60s he called for
the abolition of the Fed.
Chambers’ review was pathetic and any village
sophist can rebut it. As have the subsequent
attacks by Evans, Rockwell, ad nauseum, in
NR. I knew Rand and her husband, I’ve read Atlas
20 times cover to cover and The Fountainhead
a dozen times plus all of her published corpus.
Her acolytes at ARI bother me because they
are Jewish Zionist fanatics except a few of the
equally disgusting goy types like Locke.
Peikoff in his massive History of Western
Philosophy audio series refutes every Catholic
premise, Tom P. Sorry. One reason there are
many more of us ex-Catholics than believers.
Atlas should be a TV series, only that would do it
justice. Pitt is better looking and has more intelligence
than both Jacks above.
As far as emotionalism goes you ever listen to the moronic
rightwing am talk shows with their imbecilic callers ?
The Left is bad but they have no monopoly on irrationalism
as the above posters prove.

By: Jack Tracey

Jack Tracey — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:40:45 +0000

“Celebrity fans of the cult of selfishness”? Well, at least these celebrities don’t hate poor people like you conservatives do.

Were any of those quoted in that video where celebrities declared their devotion to Obama? If not, they’d better be on the next one, now that they’ve been called out.

Pitt is a dope. Well said.

By: Jack Ross

Jack Ross — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:14 +0000

What I have noticed myself was that a lot of very ditzy liberal-leftists on Myspace or whatever would have The Fountainhead right up there with some New Left author or even Marx among their favorite books. I can’t say I’m surprised that the HuffPo crowd never does anything out of their subjective feelings, only out of reason . . .

By: Kelley Vlahos

Kelley Vlahos — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:39:33 +0000

I love Brad Pitt: “[The Fountainhead] is so dense and complex, it would have to be a six-hour movie.”

Gary Cooper? Patricia Neal? 114 minutes? 1949? What a dope

By: Tom Piatak

Tom Piatak — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:28:20 +0000

Whittaker Chambers was right.