Doubletap
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- Dec 28, 2012
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I had a good laugh when William F. Buckley said he had to flog himself to read Atlas Shrugged.
Ayn Rand never forgave him for publishing Whitaker Chambers' review of the tome. You can read it here: Whittaker Chambers -- Big Sister is Watching You
It's perfect.
Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal.
The highest tribute to Ayn Rand is that her critics must distort everything she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individual's rights to freedom of action, speech, & association; self-responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; & a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare honestly state these ideas and say, " . . .and that's what I reject"?