Comments by "Donald Clifford" (@donaldclifford5763) on "Ayn Rand: The Virtue of Selfishness" video.

  1. I'm big on Rand non-fiction, like Virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism the Unknown Ideal, and Objectivist Epistemology. Pure Gold.
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  2.  @rebelblade7159  It's thematic. The reader derives increased understanding from it. Literature is not banal propaganda.
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  3. At least nowadays here in the US, the Public Fool System is beyond an intellectual wasteland. More like incipient pathology.
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  4. Tinge of jealousy.
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  5. Rand's detractors have their own problems that get revealed by their unfounded findings of fault.
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  6. Atlas Shrugged sold over 10 million copies. But her bills came due before her royalties.
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  7.  @thesmokingjacket645  With a heavy dose of Socrates. Socratic method pure gold. Died a martyr.
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  8.  @vaughnreedjr6592  Wow! Really?
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  9.  @johntaylorson7769  More like you work the system you're got, not the one you wish you had.
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  10.  @loona_mew  Name one?
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  11.  @Fuddruckers1  Rand influenced Friedman who influenced Reagan. Chicago School.
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  12.  @robertstevens1537  To the contrary. The Reagan Revolution which was heavily influenced by the Chicago School revitalize d the US economy and served to put the final nail in the coffin of Soviet communism. We continue to benefit from this continued economic success today. We need more not less.
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  13. The dichotomy is needed to illustrate the underlying principle. Literary license.
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  14.  @stevespears-ss  Not absolutist. Jeffersonian. Government governs best that governs least. Minimalist government. Objectivism consistent with human nature. Marxism needs to transform hum an nature into a "socialist man", even if it kills him.
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  15.  @stevespears-ss  Rand was a government minimalist, like Jefferson, government best that governs least. Ordered liberty, free enterprise with rule of law. Objectivism consistent with human nature. Marxism needs to transform humans into "socialist man", even if it kills him.
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  16.  @stevespears-ss  That's clearly a false equivalence. Objectivism is derived from Aristotelian logic and epistemology. Very rigorous. Marxism is Hegelian dialectic imposed on unproven theory of human nature. That's why one succeeds completely and the other leads to social pathology and genocide.
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  17. Millions of people apply and receive SS. No one laughs.
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  18. Anyone making such a charge reveals himself as a mental pauper envious of Rand's intelligence.
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