tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post4146066992384647240..comments2024-03-17T12:51:46.412-07:00Comments on Cutting Through The Crap: IconographySid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-47339989838940822282011-02-03T20:00:54.585-08:002011-02-03T20:00:54.585-08:00I first heard of Rand, as a young boy, traveling b...I first heard of Rand, as a young boy, traveling by Greyhound from Ohio to California.<br /><br />A young girl, perhaps 16, sat next to me and told me about a wonderful book she was reading - The Fountainhead - she said that when I was older, I had to read it.<br /><br />Eventually, I found a copy in a used book store; I was shocked by what I read.<br /><br />Today I learned that Rand was even more horrific than I thought. I did some more research today and the following was what I found.<br /><br />"She deliberately modeled Renahan - intended to be her first sketch of her ideal man - after this same William Edward Hickman. Renahan, she enthuses in another journal entry, "is born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness -- [resulting from] the absolute lack of social instinct or herd feeling. He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people ... Other people do not exist for him and he does not understand why they should." (Journals, pp. 27, 21-22; emphasis hers.)<br /><br />In her early notes for The Fountainhead: "One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself. Fine!" (Journals, p. 78.<br /><br />More, sickeningly more:<br /><br />Of The Fountainhead's hero, Howard Roark: He "has learned long ago, with his first consciousness, two things which dominate his entire attitude toward life: his own superiority and the utter worthlessness of the world." (Journals, p. 93.)"<br /><br />In the original version of her first novel We the Living: "What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?" (This declaration is made by the heroine Kira, Rand's stand-in; it is quoted in The Ideas of Ayn Rand by Ronald Merrill, pp. 38 - 39<br /><br />Excerpts are from:<br /><br />Romancing the Stone-Cold Killer: Ayn Rand and William Hickman - by Michael Prescott<br /><br />SeeIt@<br />http://www.michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm<br /><br />She was a monster, and her madness is still infecting new generations!<br /><br />EugeneInSanDiegoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-5187326875157794582011-02-03T14:39:55.237-08:002011-02-03T14:39:55.237-08:00Since the usual RWS seem to have nothing to say ab...Since the usual RWS seem to have nothing to say about Rand's hypocrisy inre. Social Security and Medicare - a few more tidbits about her and her putrid "philosophy".<br /><br />For her. altruism was the greatest possible evil.<br /><br />Like her acolyte, Limbaugh, she was hooked on drugs - Dexedrine, now known as speed. For weight control, years and years of "weight control".<br /><br />Disappointingly for RWS, she said: women had the right to choose an abortion.<br /><br />"Abortion is a moral right -- which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved..."<br /><br />"An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, but only to an actual being."<br /><br />"All laws against homosexual acts should be repealed..."<br /><br />Comically for RWS - She opposed Reagan and his "mixture of capitalism and religion," calling him "the representative of the worst kind of conservatism.<br /><br />She also thought immigration was a right - She made attempts to bring her parents and sisters to the United States.<br /><br />She hated just about everybody; she particularly hated weakness in any form, for example she publicly humiliated her husband for losing his memory, as he aged,saying how his "weakness", "sickened" her.<br /><br />This was a man who worshiped her to the point of allowing her to sleep with another man, twice a week, in his own bed. <br /><br />Does anybody need to know more about this "Conservative" icon?<br /><br />Read on!<br /><br />In her "novels she extolled the alpha male - like this creature:<br /><br />"The biggest role model she had for them (her hero's) was William Hickman, a serial killer whose biggest claim to fame was his kidnapping, torture, rape, and dismemberment of a 12 year old girl, who he then sewed back together to fool her father into leaving ransom money for her when he saw her corpse through a car window." <br /><br />"For Rand, who collected all his press clippings, he was a "genuinely beautiful soul" and a "superman" (that's what they called "alphas" back then.)"<br /><br />She said of him, "if he had had a (Objectivist?) goal, he could have trampled society underfoot.<br /><br />SeeIt@:<br />http://www.rsdnation.com/node/150390<br /><br />Or, Google Ayn Rand hypocrisy.<br /><br />A six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket.<br /><br />This is the person Rand Paul and RWS point to as an inspiration.<br /><br />Does anybody need to know more about so-called "Conservatism"?<br /><br />Does anybody have any doubts about what "Conservatives" are preparing for us?<br /><br />EugeneInSanDiegoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com