Reason Foundation Co-Founder Manny Klausner on Ayn Rand
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Amazing story.
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Fantastic story.
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your herd*
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@arbide2 Right... it's nice to scream what you hear from you herd but can you clarify that position? And she didn't folow blind ideological faith, she has stated in her books that she is against just that.
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Ayn Rand and the book, Atlas Shrugged, was my own catalyst for waking up to reality. I was a typically ignorant, self professed socialist at the age of 19 and had made some sort of political remark to my much older and wiser girlfriend of 25, to which her reply was to ask if I would be willing to read a book she would suggest. I was head over heels in love with this woman and of course agreed. She pulled Atlas Shrugged of her shelf and handed it to me.
My life changed.
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Not correct for all the founders. That's the problem when you lump 5 dozen individual politicians into one homogeneous blob. The Federalists and their ideas were very important to many of the founders, most of whom were from New England. Hamilton wanted to reduce the states to "mere administrative units" and have a large standing army that was used to further the interests of the United States. Washington largely agreed with some of the federalists ideals, but certainly not all.
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Rand is insane.
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Absolutely correct, the liberalism of the founders is the libertarianism of today. The Founders were not authoritarian statists, the very opposite.
Nonetheless, you can never get too much Atlas.
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Mr.davidngo4415 is right on this one, too. ):and doesn't merit all of the thumbs down:(
If one stops to analyse this scenario correctly, it comes down to cause and effect.
*Reason magazine* had everything to gain by hijacking Miss Rand's name and image for a cause that She emphatically stated as incompatible with Her Philosophy of Objectivism. This is the unfortunate anti-intellectual trap that this faction uses to gain popularity...
...and also why the Galt's Gulch refuge is closed to them.
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Reprint that November 1973 issue!!
"Rand v. Reason."
Lol, yeah, that would be awesome.
MooseOfReason 2 years ago 10
Great interview! I, too, loved the "Rand vs Reason" possibility. It would be interesting if Reason would/could re-print that issue for re-sale.
conductus 2 years ago 6