Skip to main content

Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум) aka Ayn Rand, was a devout drug addled (meth), Atheist and wanna be philosopher who is more accurately described as a very wordy romance/sci-fi novelist.  On Christianity she wrote that Christianity was "the best kindergarten of communism possible." Since she was born in Russia under the Czar who was deposed by the Russian Revolution before she abandoned the land of her birth, she was in the perfect place to learn about Christianity being the gateway to Communism.

In 1947, during the Second Red Scare, Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the United States House Un-American Activities Committee.

As an atheist who rejected faith as antithetical to reason, Rand embraced philosophical realism and opposed all forms of what she regarded as mysticism and super-naturalism, including organized religion.

While completing her second novel (Fountainhead), Rand began taking the prescription amphetamine Benzedrine (aka speed, meth, crystal, & many others) to fight fatigue.[45] Her use of the drug enabled her to work long hours to meet her deadline for delivering the finished novel to Bobbs-Merrill, but when the book was done she was so exhausted that her doctor ordered two weeks rest.[46] Her continued use of it for several decades also may have contributed to volatile mood swings observed by her associates in later years.

This is her piss poor description of humanity as delivered by her most "exceptional" fictional character John Galt:  
"The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all their brains."
With standing, is the impossibility of a her ridiculous two "Man" pyramid, and the equally stupid assumption that "the man at the bottom,... would starve in his hopeless ineptitude,..." , as though we each need some genius to show us where the dinner forks are at every meal lest we wither & die. This belief is so ridiculous it needs no refutation. Her "Faith" in her own absurd premises is its own kind of religion.

Also of dubious value is the "Time" of the has been & would be John Galts of the world,,, as they mostly cause wars, environmental catastrophes, and great pain, suffering and unhappiness among the "men at the bottom".  Let me ask – What do you think The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s ,,, err, British Puketroleum’s  Lord Tony Hayward’s time is worth,,, to you?  My dog leaves more valuable material in the woods than ever came from lord tony's lying pie-hole.

Of course these days,  the fact that most of the John Galts of the world are little more than cookie cutter, intelligence optional MBAs, totally escapes the ayn  eye of the current crop of Objectivist, Galtist fanatics.

Much of the above was sourced from the Ayn Rand Wiki.

UPDATE - Seems like i pissed some ppl off. Sorry if I offended any athiests but,
I just want Rs & Xtians to know everything they need to know about Rand, whom they seem to be sanctifying.

Originally posted to olo on Sat Jul 31, 2010 at 11:46 AM PDT.

Tags

EMAIL TO A FRIEND X
Your Email has been sent.
You must add at least one tag to this diary before publishing it.

Add keywords that describe this diary. Separate multiple keywords with commas.
Tagging tips - Search For Tags - Browse For Tags

?

More Tagging tips:

A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for "Barack Obama," is this a diary they'd be trying to find?

Use a person's full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for office.

If your diary covers an election or elected official, use election tags, which are generally the state abbreviation followed by the office. CA-01 is the first district House seat. CA-Sen covers both senate races. NY-GOV covers the New York governor's race.

Tags do not compound: that is, "education reform" is a completely different tag from "education". A tag like "reform" alone is probably not meaningful.

Consider if one or more of these tags fits your diary: Civil Rights, Community, Congress, Culture, Economy, Education, Elections, Energy, Environment, Health Care, International, Labor, Law, Media, Meta, National Security, Science, Transportation, or White House. If your diary is specific to a state, consider adding the state (California, Texas, etc). Keep in mind, though, that there are many wonderful and important diaries that don't fit in any of these tags. Don't worry if yours doesn't.

You can add a private note to this diary when hotlisting it:
Are you sure you want to remove this diary from your hotlist?
Are you sure you want to remove your recommendation? You can only recommend a diary once, so you will not be able to re-recommend it afterwards.
Rescue this diary, and add a note:
Are you sure you want to remove this diary from Rescue?
Choose where to republish this diary. The diary will be added to the queue for that group. Publish it from the queue to make it appear.

You must be a member of a group to use this feature.

Add a quick update to your diary without changing the diary itself:
Are you sure you want to remove this diary?
(The diary will be removed from the site and returned to your drafts for further editing.)
(The diary will be removed.)
Are you sure you want to save these changes to the published diary?

Comment Preferences

Subscribe or Donate to support Daily Kos.

Click here for the mobile view of the site