tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post3225646574204062827..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: The Real Galt's GulchDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-83486513807148087352007-06-14T09:29:00.000-07:002007-06-14T09:29:00.000-07:00Well, you saved me the last 400 pages. My summer ...Well, you saved me the last 400 pages. My summer is now free from that ever nagging question: Who is John Galt?Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14285149134436808766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-33408282919598654562007-06-13T14:29:00.000-07:002007-06-13T14:29:00.000-07:00> I think at one point a slightly older guy named ...> I think at one point a slightly older guy named Hank<BR/>> seems to get it on with a hunky younger Latin guy named<BR/>> Francisco, but unfortunately this isn't a line Rand saw<BR/>> fit to develop beyond the sketchiest suggestion. <BR/><BR/>-------------------------------<BR/>Dr. [Chris Matthew] Sciabarra [in "Objectivism and Homosexuality"]<BR/>is impressed by how many GLBTs are influenced by Ayn Rand. . .<BR/>". . .[M]any GLBTs who embrace Rand point to the implicit "homosocial"<BR/>themes in her novels. ... [are those] who closely identified<BR/>with the male bonding in Rand's fiction ... particularly ...<BR/>the relationship between Howard Roark and Gail Wynand<BR/>in _The Fountainhead_ and the relationship between Hank Rearden<BR/>and Francisco d'Anconia in _Atlas Shrugged_."<BR/><BR/>There is in all that follows, never stated but clearly<BR/>implied, the suggestion that Ayn Rand secretly or<BR/>subconsciously recognized the physical attraction between<BR/>men, was probably confused about her own sexuality,<BR/>(possibly lesbian?), and that her outward protestations<BR/>were evidence of an inward conflict.<BR/><BR/>In the hands (and minds) of these tortured souls, Ayn Rand's<BR/>sublime descriptions of that highest form of love between<BR/>men, the recognition of true value in another, to which<BR/>eroticism is both irrelevant and inimical, is perverted<BR/>into a kind of hidden homosexuality, debauching true love<BR/>and degrading sex. These would get it all wrong, just as<BR/>Rand is reported to have foreseen. In an early draft of<BR/>one such description of love between Wynand and Roark,<BR/>Roark says, "I love you — in every sense except the one<BR/>a fool would think of first." Apparently it is the first<BR/>one thought of first by Dr. Sciabarra and the GLBTs.<BR/>-------------------------------<BR/><BR/>-- Reginald Firehammer<BR/>_The Hijacking of a Philosophy: Homosexuals vs. Ayn Rand's Objectivism_<BR/>http://usabig.com/autonomist/hijack/index.html<BR/><BR/>"Who Is This For?<BR/><BR/>It is primarily for Objectivists. Particularly, it is for<BR/>those Objectivists who are wondering when Objectivism became<BR/>allied with homosexuality and the promotion of that behavior<BR/>as both normal and moral. That Objectivism could actually<BR/>embrace the confusion which is homosexuality and all that<BR/>those practices mean, socially and in the lives of individuals,<BR/>is bewildering to many Objectivists.<BR/><BR/>For those Objectivists, the purpose of this book is to<BR/>assure them, Objectivism had nothing to do with this, it<BR/>is Objectivism hijacked, not Objectivism as Ayn Rand wrote it."<BR/><BR/>Oh dear, oh dear.jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-77236073529470801312007-06-13T08:43:00.000-07:002007-06-13T08:43:00.000-07:00> Could there be a more perfect vision of the neol...> Could there be a more perfect vision of the neoliberal<BR/>> reality beneath the libertopian handwaving of the<BR/>> Randroid Right? The world as a septic sewer dotted with<BR/>> gated enclaves in which moneyed whites pretend to live<BR/>> in the McKinley era. You people do realize that<BR/>> A Boy and His Dog is, like, dystopian don't you?<BR/><BR/>The Farm! Immediately!jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com