Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il mormone & il satanista

Come è noto, la Rand fu una delle principali fonti di ispirazione di 
Anton LaVey, fondatore della Church of Satan. Si vede che Romney ha 
deciso di coprire in toto il mercato della superstizione.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/13/paul-ryan-ayn-rand-romney
 
 
Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney
 
When I was a teenager, my American girlfriend at the time gave me Ayn 
Rand's cult novel Atlas Shrugged to read. It changed her life, she said. 
It changed mine, too. She was not my girlfriend by the morning. It was 
the most unpleasant thing I'd ever had the misfortune to read.
 
As a work of literature, Atlas Shrugged is drivel, and not simply 
because it is so up itself with its own perceived radicalism; 
fundamentally, all propaganda is drivel, even if it is propaganda in a 
good cause. Rand's cause was to celebrate what she called "the virtue of 
selfishness", to denigrate the poor as scroungers and to celebrate the 
muscular individualism of the creative heroes of capitalism. Altruism, 
she contends, is "complete evil". The question she poses: what would 
happen if all the bankers and captains of industry went on strike? What 
would happen if these Atlas-like gods, who hold up the world, decided 
one day to shrug and refuse to support everyone else? Then the world 
would be buggered, she contends. Atlas Shrugged is cheap pornography for 
the nastiest side of capitalism.
 
"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to 
credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand," said Mitt 
Romney's now running mate Paul Ryan four years ago. He also admitted he 
made all his interns read Atlas Shrugged, dishing them out as Christmas 
presents.
 
But here's the political problem for Ryan. Many were queasy when George 
Bush cheesily described Jesus as his favourite philosopher, but at least 
he knew his market. In contrast, few books can be as hostile to the 
Christian faith as Atlas Shrugged. For Rand, the good Samaritan was not 
simply a chump: he was in fact doing something wicked. We are saved only 
by selfishness. So how can an American politician, who has described 
himself as a "staunch Catholic" and in what is supposed to be an 
electorate dominated by Christian values, side with one who so 
thoroughly rejected all the teachings of Jesus?
 
Ryan has now predictably backtracked. "I reject her philosophy. It's an 
atheist philosophy. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view 
on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas." By the way, this is 
the same Thomas Aquinas who insisted that, "Man should not consider his 
material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them 
without hesitation when others are in need," thus espousing the very 
collectivism that Rand so loathed.
 
Words are cheap, especially on the campaign trail. By your deeds shall 
you know them. And Ryan's deeds, and in particular his budget plan for 
slashing the role of the state, are pure Rand, as a group of Jesuits 
from Georgetown University have insisted: "Your budget appears to 
reflect the values of your favourite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than 
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her call to selfishness and her antagonism 
toward religion are antithetical to the Gospel values of compassion and 
love." The US Catholic bishops' conference, not well-known for its 
progressive politics, has said much the same.
 
It feels odd to be arguing that there ought to be more religion in US 
politics. In many ways, I'd prefer there to be a lot less. And certainly 
a lot less of the hard-right hogwash that borrows the wardrobe of 
Christianity but has no intention of being subject to its moral values. 
Jesus said nothing whatsoever about homosexuality or abortion. He said a 
great deal about poverty and our responsibility for the vulnerable. 
Which is why Paul Ryan is little more than Ayn Rand in Christian drag.
 
Ironically, he is a "second-hander" – Rand's terminology for those who 
take their values, prêt-à-porter, from others. The trouble is that 
Christianity in the US has become so widely hijacked by the right that 
not enough people will actually notice. As the Ryan case aptly 
demonstrates, the Christian right is neither: that is, Christian nor right.
-- 
Namib
--
I have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never 
again found the Rue d'Auseil (HPL)

 Anton LaVey, fondatore della Church of Satan. Si vede che Romney ha
 
Mah, Ayn Rand di per se ha ben poco a che fare col satanismo. Se non 
ricordo male era apprezzata anche dal gipper e dalla signora 
anglosassone non più in perfetta salute che secondo lo psichiatra di 
Mitterrand voleva nuclearizzaro Còrdoba, questo sì.
 
 
 
 
fe...@delenda.net
 
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http://delendanet.blogspot.com
 

 sociopatici da manuale, come tutti i liberisti, di cui Rand � solo il pi� onesto nel tirare le conclusioni
 
Tecnicamente, 'la' pi� onesta..
 
 
 
 
fe...@delenda.net
 
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http://delendanet.blogspot.com
 

 coprire in toto il mercato della superstizione.
 
Mmmh.
 
Se fossi un cinico andrei a comperarmi una fornitura industriale di mais 
nero da pop-corn (da preparare all'bavarese, con il burro, lo zucchero ed i 
miele) in previsione della più grande pantomima di tutti i tempi che verrà 
messa in scena nei prossimi mesi.
 
Ma non lo sono. Fortunatamente non lo sono.
 
--
dhcmrlchtdj
--
These words are too solid
They don't move fast enough
To catch the blur in the brain
That flies by and is gone
(Suzanne Vega, Language, 1987)
 

 Ma non lo sono. Fortunatamente non lo sono.
 
Io, temo di sì. Credo mi spiaccia. (Ma mai e poi mai mangerei mais con 
burro e zucchero; sotto tortura, preferirei il martirio).
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 burro e zucchero; sotto tortura, preferirei il martirio).
 
Burro, zucchero e miele. O meglio ancora la variante Canadese con lo 
sciroppo d'acero. Dopo che l'avrai assaggiato, quello classico da cinema ti 
sembrerà polistirolo.
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