RE: 5 Stupid things about Ayn Rand
August 9, 2012 at 8:23 am
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 8:48 am by genkaus.)
(August 9, 2012 at 12:21 am)Stue Denim Wrote: I'll bite. Though I've not read her work.
1. Poor writer? Wouldn't know, I do hear atlas shrugged ain't that great, but that seems to me to be irrelevent. Lets attack the idea's, not the exact way they were written.
About her being a poor writer - Rand's magnus opus a humongous novel of over a thousand pages - a novel full of long moralizing speeches (the longest of which runes for more than a hundred pages or 3 hours) and proses with overt author-appeal. She has loads upon loads of characters each of whom have a separate and clearly-laid out back-story and still end up falling in one camp of the other. And her book has consistently ranked among the most widely read. If that doesn't show her good writing skills, I don't know what will.
(August 9, 2012 at 7:54 am)Napoleon Wrote: Usually because her followers are as crazy as the bat shit theists and mindlessly defend her and talk about her as though she's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Its interesting you say that, because when I look online, I find that her critics are much more vocal and mindless in their attacks. Examples include regular mis-characterizations of her philosophy and ad-hom attacks. This thread and the embedded video are examples of that - discussions started ostensibly for the reason of criticizing her where criticism is neither necessary nor warranted. If you ask me, the haters do much more to make sure that Ayn Rand remains in the circulation.
