He's got a point...

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Brad R. sums up Randians:

Y’know how some people can have completely fucked up political beliefs and still be good people on a personal level? Has anyone else noticed that that is never the case for Randians, who on a political and personal level are the biggest fucking douchebags in the entire godless world?

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...I now have a one-inch crack in my skull from trying to parse all this at work.

On the one hand, it seems like a refreshing antidote to all the postmodernist stuff that somehow leapt from liberal-arts English departments to neoconservatism in under ten years. The notion that the real exists, independent of perception, is nice and concrete.

However, I can totally see this as an enabling philosophy for the Hayek and Mieses acolytes who are convinced that they are The Ones and that they shouldn't be encumbered by the vultures and barnacles of society. Especially since I spent my void-formerly-known-as-college with most of those folks. Shit, where's my pinata when I need it?

I will work on this some more tonight. Sigh. Political theory homework after all these years...

Got it.

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Pinata? At the ready. ;]