Officer Barbrady on Ayn Rand
By Barry Ritholtz - February 15th, 2010, 6:57AM
How LOL is this:
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:59 am
LOL and true.
February 15th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Should add, I’ve never read “Atlas Shrugged.”
I read “The Virtue of Selfishness” as an extra credit assignment in a high school Philosophy of Literature class, and it sucked.
Kant was more better written, (*shudder*) and for that matter, Kant was more logically consistent.
February 15th, 2010 at 8:51 am
it IS true. i LOVE Atlas Shrugged – but it’s a HORRENDOUS read. the first 350 pages are so are awful, the middle 450 pages or so are terrific, and the last 450 pages or so are pure hazing.
February 15th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Nice to see BR joining the Serious People Who Seriously Hate Ayn Rand bandwagon. But hey, align your opinions with those of Officer Barbrady if his is the kind of philosophical company you like to keep.
I don’t understand how people can compare any author to Kant when almost everything Kant wrote was manifestly incomprehensible.
February 15th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Great post. Barbrady’s apparently not the only authority figure who stopped reading after finding Rand…
February 15th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
It’s difficult to comment in response to a cartoon character but I’ll risk looking foolish anyway:
Rand, like most other thinkers and philosophers, had some interesting things to say. I disagree with many of her beliefs (or non-beliefs) but still believe her work is important and quite worthy of reading.
To quit reading because of one book is, well, idiotic — much like the cartoon character in this sketch.
Other philosophers, who happened to be good writers, include Plato, Michel De Montaigne, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzshe.
February 15th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
BR seems to have a bug up his ass about Ayn Rand. Previously, he wrote:
“My actual problem with Rand — behind her blindingly horrific prose — is that she was pushing back against a totalitarian system in the Soviet Union, a corrupt and morally indefensible system she had every right to be infuriated by. But she applies that righteous fury and outrage to a Democracy, whose economy is Free Market based.”
Because of this, I am waiting for him next to lambast George Orwell for writing “1984″ and Alan Moore for writing “V for Vendetta”.