The right wing tea-partiers have appropriated Ayn Rand's ideology to provide theoretical support to the hard right's agenda of eliminating government, de-regulating business, and rationalizing their own selfishness.
Objectivism and libertariansim has always been a theology. Something that is believed on apparent reason but in actuality could never work in a practical application of the principles involved. Laissez faire capitalism, rational egoism, and the elimination of government would spell the end for whichever country foolish enough to adopt these principles.
Objectivism and libertariansim has always been a theology. Something that is believed on apparent reason but in actuality could never work in a practical application of the principles involved. Laissez faire capitalism, rational egoism, and the elimination of government would spell the end for whichever country foolish enough to adopt these principles.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
