Thursday, April 26, 2012

"Wait, My Hero is an Atheist?"

I burst out laughing when I saw an article showing that Rep. Paul Ryan is now rejecting, rejecting, the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand.  I wrote a post months ago that included video clips of an interview that Rand gave to the late Mike Wallace, and in that interview, Rand was quite explicit in explaining the tenets of Objectivism.  Classically, Ryan likely understood exactly what he wanted to understand about Rand's philosophy, with regard to the fallacy of the government assisting the least among us, while ignoring those aspects of Objectivism that he didn't like, or didn't understand.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Equipped with that kind of moral transmission, why isn't the Romney/Ryan ticket already in the race?

I'm just sayin'...

Anonymous said...

My recollection is that this blog was forever criticizing "POTUS" for being wishy-washy on gay rights. Now--with explicit support for gay marriage--that he's taken probably the most courageous civil rights stance since LBJ in 1964, this blog says....nothing. It would be interesting to hear something on the subject.