AYN RAND WAS RATHER
A LOON BUT COULD WRITE A DECENT TALE.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. WAS LESS TALENTED.
I NEVER LIKED HIM AND IT WASN'T JUST BECAUSE HE DIDN'T
APPEAR TO BATHE.
This is his weird and nasty eulogy to her. It seems
antisemitic too with the mocking of her accent.
A reader writes a rebuttal afterwards.
She died March 6,
1982, so these letters are a
little after that date.
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Ayn Rand tal vez sea
el mejor ejemplo con su gruesa novela Atlas
Shrugged—y cuando digo gruesa, quiero decir
gruesa: ¡Tiene 645.000 palabras! Yo siempre he
opinado que se requiere una gran cantidad de
amor propio para escribir un libro tan grande,
pero estoy siendo quisquilloso ya que he leído
Atlas Shrugged de principio a fin y es un buen
libro.
Seguidores fanáticos del
libro—utopianos de Ayn Rand—sin embargo, lo
consideran la verdad del evangelio. Un
utopiano en particular me viene a la mente, un
tal Paul Ryan ex-senador republicano. Él solía
insistir en que sus empleados leyeran Atlas
Shrugged en la misma manera que algún
demasiado religioso fanático cristiano
insistiría en que leyeran el Nuevo Testamento
si pudiera hacerlo y salirse con la suya.
Tarde en la vida Ryan estaba totalmente
atontado al enterarse con horror de que su
heroína Rand era una atea y a favor de la
libre elección.
Bueno, el muchacho
estadounidense medio se enamora de Ayn Rand
alrededor de la edad de trece años y la
primera cosa que aprende—la primera cosa—es
que Ayn Rand era una atea y a favor de la
libre elección. No digo que otros utopianos
sean tan poco eruditos y tan superficiales
respecto a su conocimiento básico de sus gurús
como la obvia cabeza hueca de primera Paul
Ryan. Todo lo contrario, muchos tienen
sabiduría bastante amplia respecto a Heinlein,
Skinner y Rand.
Ayn Rand is perhaps the best
example with her hefty novel Atlas
Shrugged—and by hefty I write a book that
long, but I quibble because I've read it
myself cover to cover and it's a very good
read.
Fanatical adherents to the
book—Ayn Rand Utopians—however, treat it as
gospel. One reader in particular comes to
mind, one Paul Ryan, former Republican US
senator. He used to insist that his employees
read Atlas Shrugged rather in the way some
overly religious Christian zealot would insist
that they read the New Testament if the zealot
could get away with it. Ryan was absolutely
gobsmacked1 when late in life he learned to
his horror that his heroine Rand was a
pro-choice atheist.
Now, the Ayn Rand bug hits the
American male at about age thirteen, and the
first thing he learns—the very first thing—is
that Ayn Rand was a pro-choice atheist.
I don't accuse other Utopians of
being so unscholarly and superficial in
knowledge with regard to their guru-authors as
is the obvious numbskull and dabbler
extraordinaire, Paul Ryan. Quite the contrary,
many are very learned in all things Heinlein,
Skinner, and Rand.
I wrote before:
Paul Ryan is a dabbler.
He read a little of Atlas Shrugged and went
around preaching it. But he knew nothing about
her and was shocked to find that she was a
pro-choice atheist. This is the FIRST thing you
learn about her if you know anything or are even
slightly interested. A dabbler + a utopia novel.
I like her being a pro-choice atheist, but not
being a loon who said she would never vote for a
woman president.