"The Rosa Klebb of letters"
The next time someone asks me why I don't like Ayn Rand, really, all I have to do is point them here.
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I did a book report on "The Fountainhead", I think it was, when I was in grade 10. It impressed me, as indicated in the review, but it also repulsed me as it warred with my socialist tendencies. I think you know which side won out.
Posted by dad/bill | 5:05 PM
Gold.
"Fuck you, Ayn Rand.
Fuck you for turning some of the most open and interesting people I ever met into utopian dickheads.
Fuck you for injecting them with a sneering sense of superiority, and with the tautological belief that anyone who didn't "get it" was a jealous know-nothing—which, ipso facto, only proved that superiority.
And fuck you for prose so bad that the only way to measure it is with a meat scale.
There. I feel better.
But wait—Ayn, you know that letter I just got informing me that my equity line of credit is being frozen despite my perfect credit history, and despite the fact that I bought a house I could actually afford?
Yeah, fuck you for that, too."
Thanks for posting this.
Posted by Unknown | 5:35 PM
Well Dad, I know we wouldn't get along nearly as well if you were a Randroid.
Glad you guys liked it.
Posted by Ian | 10:43 PM