have a lot in common. Rand was not like Hitler in terms of calling for direct hateful violence or racism or murder, but her belief in Survival of the Fittest as a social philosophy rather than an observation of nature opens the door for the philosophy of Ayn Rand to lead to Hitlerian actions on behalf of the 'haves' versus the 'have nots'.
There are many intellectual people who have never or perhaps could never engage in, or even order direct violence, but they can recommend policies that make such things inevitable and they can use money and geography to 'partition' their lives from their very awareness of the full results of their philosophies.
Such is the case with Ayn Rand. She could never visit a 'Human Disposal Unit' but her philosophy of giving the least help to those who have failed the most would inevitably lead to Human Disposal Units eventually. And if these HDUs were around a thousand years and she received a 100 heart and organ transplants from the sad 'losers' in the genetic game of capitalistic success (which really is an insane thought) then she would still have never gotten around to actually visiting the fruits of her thoughts.
The fact that the new wave of popular conservative thought represented unanimously on Conservative AM talk radio (WABC, COX) and Fox News seems rooted in the philosophy of Ayn Rand says a lot. I'm afraid that the clean handed intellectual stewards of the Ayn Ran philosophy in the Conservative media are stirring up a terrorist hornets nest amongst their listeners and followers. It has surged in the attack in Norway and against Congresswoman Giffords in the US. My local gun shop runs ads beseeching the community to fight high taxes and buy guns.
But that's a local ad, here on the ground in the social war we're going through. Rush Limbaugh never hears the local ad's, he just gets the money...
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