which reminds me
Posted by | Anonymous | 30.1.11 | 1 Comment
The Ayn Rand article below reminded me of this 'review' of Atlas Shrugged.
... a non-trivial number of Atlas Shrugged readers are possibly far enough along the Asperger spectrum that they don’t recognize humanity does not in fact easily suss out into Randian capitalist superheroes on one side and craven socialist losers on the other, or that Rand’s neatly-stacked deck doesn’t mirror the world as it is, or (if one gives it any sort of genuine reflection) model it as it should be.
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21/7/11 17:11
i love coming back to read the opening sentence of this quote. always makes me smile