Bliss by Harry Bliss for May 09, 2020

Reading Ayn Rand will teach you how not to write.

Priorities!

Well, it could have been The Story of O.

Fear that he would think…..

Naming him Atlas was your first mistake, Mom. But at least we know what his response will be.

They will all rot your brain, but adolescents usually outgrow Ayn Rand. Of course, they usually outgrow experimentation with drugs and alcohol, too. Usually.

Dahhhhhh …… Got them at the library .

Rand Paul, probably. Whose full name is Randall.

Yes, I would feel her rage. Lucky for me, my boys were into SF and accounting.

Instead, read something that will make want to join ANTIFA.

Get that kid into a Montessori school fast !

On the road to conservatism! Good choice.

I haven’t read Fountainhead, but I did force my way through Atlas Shrugged. 1700 pages that could have been written in 30. The rest of it was Ayn repeating herself. I don’t disagree with her point, but oy.

Rand was certainly well acquainted with, you know, hypocrisy.

Looks like he just ‘ Shrugged’.

Good one, Harry. And, sadly, some people never outgrow this nonsense.

These were required reading at my Koch Bros-funded school in Wichita, but I grew up.

I wonder what she would say/do if she found him reading Robert A. Heinlein, or Harlen Ellison?! They were Political opposites, but both great story tellers.

Ayn Rand was a selfish person who invented a selfish philosophy that was only to be self-serving. Her lover cheated on her and stole her company from her. He is better at being selfish than she was.

I got them from you mom!!!! …from you.

That woman’s idea are poison. She would have let the coronavirus “run its course”. To blazes with everybody else.

AS an architect I felt compelled to read Fountainhead. Meh.

Atlas, he shrugged.

Rand was a skilled writer with Toxic ideas.She died dependent on the State’s Medicare.What a hypocrite!

Well, they now have emergency toilet paper.

I read what I wanted, and my child read what she wanted. We both learned there are more opinions in the world, and we chose to follow our own paths. I read Ayn Rand, I assume she did. Now, she treats covid patients. We did OK.

Paul Ryan, perhaps? He claimed to be a big fan of her thinking.

I’m pretty sure Ayn was having them on. I mean, seriously?!?

Yeah, I read it too. Tough to get through, and I couldn’t imagine more selfish folks in the world.

But a free society must allow selfishness, else it is not free.

Project Gutenberg, along with 60,00 other free books.

Life is really 100% about perception, and usually results in 10% action and 90% reaction.

“OH GOD NO, PLEASE TELL ME YOU’RE NOT A . . . NOT A . . . !”

I survived her books OK…

Yelling at your kid for reading a book with “bad ideas” is easier than having a thoughtful discussion about why the ideas are bad.

Of course, that’s assuming that the Mom has read these books herself and isn’t just believing what she’s been told. Or maybe she’s read the “Cliff’s Notes” version.

And full disclosure, the only Ayn Rand story that I had the patience for was Anthem, and I don’t really remember it.

I was sitting in the family room reading Atlas Shrugged and a neighbor asked my Mom is she was ok with me reading Ayn Rand. My Mom answered, “I’m fine with it”After the neighbor left, My Mom asked me, “Who is Ayn Rand? Why wouldn’t I want you to read her book?” I explained who Ayn Rand was and her philosophy. My Mom then said she didn’t really want me to read her books, but after my explanation of Ayn Rand and my synopsis of Fountainhead, she conceded it was probably too late to screen my reading material.