From the Drifter Hmmm?...book.
Mitt Romney is credited with having had the insight, foresight, skill, knowledge and expertise to build a very large and very successful investment firm—and yet he cannot articulate the simplest of thoughts in plain English.
Loving all the attention being paid by the "progressive" media to the influence of Ayn Rand on the "presumptive" GOP Veep nominee. I had a crush on a girl in High School who was enamored of* the Mata Hari of Uber Capitalism but she had no interest or time for my attentions. Then I read The Fountainhead and I got it. She was incapable of seeing anything outside the vision of her own delusions of (solo) grandeur. Wonder what happened to her--she sure did have that fierce "Yes I can!" fire in her belly one sees in people like Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Springsteen and Newt Gingrich.
Funny how many movers, shakers, media/entertainment stars and captains of industry were inspired by the scribblings of that "Will to Power" evangelist. Including the former Dough Doyen turned "D'oh, my bad" Fed Head Alan Greenspan. I went looking for the picture of young Alan (who in his early years aspired to saxophone glory but didn't have the chops-or soul?- for it) sitting, literally, at the feet of Rand in her apartment in the 1950's, and it has apparently disappeared in the digital ether. Wonder if Greenspan bought the embarrassing shot in order to keep it out of public view. Now it's Paul Ryan's turn to answer questions about his infatuation with the exalted mistress of materialism and so far it seems like he's running for the hills--but I doubt this is an issue that could spell trouble for him since the vast majority of FOX followers are probably thinking " What kind of name is Ayn?"
I Remember when Greenspan emitted a huge and strangely underreported Mea Culpa when pushed by questioning in the wake of the economic meltdown--which was abetted in no small part by his own faith in the power of mighty men to shape the world in their own perfect images:
"I have found a flaw" in free market theory, Greenspan said under intense questioning by Representative Henry Waxman.
Pressed by Waxman, Greenspan conceded a more serious flaw in his own philosophy that unfettered free markets sit at the root of a superior economy.
"I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms," Greenspan said.
Waxman pushed the former Fed chief, who left office in 2006, to clarify...
"In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working," Waxman said.
"Absolutely, precisely," Greenspan replied. "You know, that's precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well."
"I made a mistake in presuming..."?
The guy was paid to oversee and chose to overlook.
The guy was paid to oversee and chose to overlook.
Well, what did you expect from someone who made it no secret that he subscribed to the Objectivist ** philosophy of his misanthropic muse who said:
"Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."
Funny that this constitutes for some an attractive recipe for an appetizing world. Sounds to me more like a formula for a future full of ethnic cleansings, famines, melting ice caps and restricted golf and country clubs.
THIS JUST IN: COLLEAGUE (A.K) JUST INFORMED ME:
"Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan" is an anagram for "My ultimate Ayn Rand porn".
*Or is it enamored with or enamored by? Looks like the OED accepts of, with, and by:
**Calling her philosophy "Objectivism" was a clever move. How can you argue with something that defines itself as "objective"?
**Calling her philosophy "Objectivism" was a clever move. How can you argue with something that defines itself as "objective"?
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