According to RIII, who is the biggest comic book fan on the planet (present company included, seriously), Rorschach is based on Objectivist philosophy.
Here's the thing, though. While I haven't read anything of Ayn Rand other than "Anthem", RIII has read them all.... And he supports Universal Health care because true Objectivist philosophy understands that having a healthy population is good for every individual.
Bottom line: I don't know enough about her to have an in-depth argument with you about her. I know she was a hypocrite in her personal life and had a thing about making evil people ugly and good people beautiful in her books, but I do think that she gets something of a bad rap in modern society.
Atlas Shrugged and and The Fountainhead are about extraordinarily talented people who were being exploited by those who were unwilling to work as hard as they were. In the Fountainhead, they steal his ideas and basically try to get him to work for nothing.
There is a happy medium between saying that everyone should look after themselves before looking after anyone else (i.e., put on your own oxygen mask before you put it on your kid if the airplane's crashing) and saying that she was in favor of only the strong surviving.
No, she was in favor of those who were actually doing the work to keep a society going getting credit for their effort and being able to keep the fruits of their labor.
Assholes have taken her Capitalist ideas and perverted them to the idea that she would have been in favor of the corporate paristitism that prevails today, when everything points to her being against any entity that didn't actually produce anything making profit off of the people who were actually doing the work (i.e., corrupt banks, Wall Street, big corporations with 'dead peasant insurance policies and health insurance companies whose bottom line depends upon people dying.)
The idea is for EVERYONE to be able to make it in the world without having to be responsible for those who don't produce anything. Again, this isn't about being anti-welfare, though that's how it's been perverted, this is about being anti-golden parachutes, anti-Enron and anti-housing bubbles.
This is about every person who is willing to work for it actually having a chance to make it without someone else stealing their ideas.
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Date: 2011-02-07 10:14 pm (UTC)Here's the thing, though. While I haven't read anything of Ayn Rand other than "Anthem", RIII has read them all.... And he supports Universal Health care because true Objectivist philosophy understands that having a healthy population is good for every individual.
Bottom line: I don't know enough about her to have an in-depth argument with you about her. I know she was a hypocrite in her personal life and had a thing about making evil people ugly and good people beautiful in her books, but I do think that she gets something of a bad rap in modern society.
Atlas Shrugged and and The Fountainhead are about extraordinarily talented people who were being exploited by those who were unwilling to work as hard as they were. In the Fountainhead, they steal his ideas and basically try to get him to work for nothing.
There is a happy medium between saying that everyone should look after themselves before looking after anyone else (i.e., put on your own oxygen mask before you put it on your kid if the airplane's crashing) and saying that she was in favor of only the strong surviving.
No, she was in favor of those who were actually doing the work to keep a society going getting credit for their effort and being able to keep the fruits of their labor.
Assholes have taken her Capitalist ideas and perverted them to the idea that she would have been in favor of the corporate paristitism that prevails today, when everything points to her being against any entity that didn't actually produce anything making profit off of the people who were actually doing the work (i.e., corrupt banks, Wall Street, big corporations with 'dead peasant insurance policies and health insurance companies whose bottom line depends upon people dying.)
The idea is for EVERYONE to be able to make it in the world without having to be responsible for those who don't produce anything. Again, this isn't about being anti-welfare, though that's how it's been perverted, this is about being anti-golden parachutes, anti-Enron and anti-housing bubbles.
This is about every person who is willing to work for it actually having a chance to make it without someone else stealing their ideas.
That's how I interpret it anyway.