Andrew Benjamin reminded me of her and sent me an email thread which follows.
Mike Wallace came prepared for this interview and asked hardball questions. Ayn Rand stood her ground unapologetically and explained her philosophy as no one else could.
From Andrew Benjamin
And the moral of that tale is?
I’ll tell you what. From your link, she correctly identified it:
Ayn Rand called Russia “an accidental cesspool of civilization.”
Later, Rand deconstructed American edukashun and saw more than a half century ago what has become of it. She crushed the analytical-synthetic dichotomy which is what drives the progressive consciousness – essentially making them unconscious. In her day it would have been called not AI, but as it turned out, America’s liberal edukashun that created Obama and his minions. and progressive thought processes, was AS (Artificial Stupidity.)
She clearly demolished what progressives believe but cannot understand, since any opinion is equal to another; any expert is equal to another; every culture is as good as another; every people are equal achievers; all steaks taste the same, every people are entitled to a fair shake to be given to them by those who never got a fair shake from the same entitled; so on.
It is that there’s an objective, measurable, reality.
That reality does not, and never has, aligned with the progressive version of reality as it is.
That everything can be measured, including your emotions and emotional state, and if not right now, in the future.
Rand understood the wisdom of the same US constitution that the political left hated.
It is the constitution the left keeps attacking daily, politically in congress, in Obama’s, the Clinton’s and Biden’s public utterances, in demonstrations, with its media and academia…and the culture represented by Hollywood.
The combined forces I cited in the last sentence have one thing in common: THEY HATE AMERICA.
They keep denying they hate, but again, they never express love for it, do they?
THAT IS THE AMERICA THAT HAS MADE EVERY ONE OF THE ABOVECITED CRIMINALS FILTHY RICH.
In opposition to the above, Rand loved the United States because she was historically educated about the alternatives.
She never became filthy rich, but her legacy will live on and is being played out on the world stage right now.
She understood then what is going on now, and that’s why the left want to pack the courts, to have the court interpret the constitution according to Karl Marx. That’s why they’ve taken over the schools to tell children who have not yet attained sexual feelings that they are the opposite sex of what they were born with, opposite of what their chromosomes objectively have determined. That is why they want foreign nations and a city to become states, so they can get more representatives and senators on board to defeat the intent of the Electoral College and the common sense wisdom of the Founding Fathers for a multiparty union.
That is why they resent the interpretations of the 1st and 2nd amendment’s words which say exactly what they mean, and why in the 2nd Amendment “We, the People” mean the same We, the People as we the people are in all other amendments. Meaning, we the people are the militia. The militia are not neo-Nazis as the left would prefer to portray modern Americans who buy guns to protect their children from being murdered. WATCH THE NEO NAZIS IN ACTION HERE!
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We can go on and on with the idiocy that make up the progressive world according to the views of a Skinny Kenyan who wears an Empty Suit and sits in an Empty Chair, and speaks sense only to people with Empty Minds.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg that Rand saw emerging from THE SWAMP before the currents of many events swept us away.
SAID THE MAN IN THE EMPTY SUIT TO THE BUILDERS OF CIVILIZATION AND AMERICA’S CITIES SKYLINES!
Obviously, he built it!
Kenyans, in case you didn’t know it, built western civilization.
A Russian and a Jew, she loved America. She loved builders. She loved the heroic men who, against all odds, took on the evil over reach and coercive powers of government and media that would coordinate to crush good souls who think for themselves with an iron fist.
THE FOUNTAINHEAD – READ THE LINK
Rand honors the MEN WHO BUILT IT.
She honors men who bear the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Men who are immune to corruption of their souls or wallets.
Heroic men.
Men very unlike the Skinny Kenyan (Obama), the woman who was about to take his place, and Joe Biden who used government power to enrich himself while impoverishing his nation.
Immortalized here at Rockefeller Center, New York City at the entrance to the Immigration and Passport Offices…built during a time when the real soul of America – and not Empty Suits – was on display across the world.
Before the America that crushed people’s souls and wallets honored us with Kenyan sensibility.
THE ONLY BUILDER AYN RAND CLEARLY REPRESENTED AS THE IDEAL AMERICAN, THE ONLY AMERICAN IN THIS PICTURE WHO HAS NOT JUST BUILT ANYTHING, BUT MANY THINGS, A MAN WHO CREATED AND ENRICHED THE LIVES OF MANY, RATHER THAN DESTROYED THEM.
I REST MY CASE.
Andrew Benjamin
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 11:16?PM Tom Willey wrote:
How did Ayn Rand escape Russia?
In late 1925, Ayn Rand obtained permission to leave the Soviet Union to visit relatives in the United States, on the pretext of learning the American film business. After six months with relatives in Chicago, she moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as a screenwriter.Ayn Rand Biography – Cliffs Notes
From: Bob Webster
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2023 12:54 PM
To: Joe Traynor
Cc: REmoved
Joe,
You do realize Ayn Rand is Russian and fled communism at a young age… on foot.
As your humorous retort would suggest, then you really have no good reason not to read Rand’s works.
I suggest you start with Atlas Shrugged.
She has pretty good instincts and insights for what the Leftist ideology produces. It isn’t pretty.
Think of “Hunger Games”… with the pontificating Leftists reaping all the benefits as the thieves in charge while they keep their slaves (proles) occupied with their sadistic annual amusement.
A grand example of the two-faced nature of Leftists:
Bob
On Jun 24, 2023, at 6:50 PM, Joe Traynor wrote:
I’ve never read anything by Rand because I don’t trust anyone that doesn’t know how to spell their first name.
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 3:29?PM Bob Webster wrote:
Joe,
Have you ever read The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged?
Orwell wasn’t the only prescient writer…
“When you notice that to produce you need to get permission from those who do not produce anything; when you check that money flows to those who do not deal with goods but with favors; when you realize that many become rich by the bribery and for influence more than by your work and that the laws do not protect you against them, but on the contrary, they are the ones who are protected against you; when you discover that corruption is rewarded and honesty becomes a self-sacrifice, then you can assert, without fear of being wrong, that your society is doomed.”
— Ayn Rand
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