Saturday, June 19, 2010
All You Need To Know About Ayn Rand
Like the anti-government Conservatives she (unfortunately) continues to inspire, Ayn Rand was a hypocrite.
"She claimed to have created herself with the help of no one, even though she was the lifelong beneficiary of social democratic largesse. She got a college education thanks to the Russian Revolution, which opened universities to women and Jews and, once the Bolsheviks had seized power, made tuition free. Subsidizing theater for the masses, the Bolsheviks also made it possible for Rand to see cheesy operettas on a weekly basis. After Rand's first play closed in New York City in April 1936, the Works Progress Administration took it on the road to theaters across the country, giving Rand a handsome income of $10 a performance throughout the late 1930s. Librarians at the New York Public Library assisted her with the research for The Fountainhead."
That's probably the most important passage from an article on Ayn Rand by The Nation's Corey Robin.
It's a shame that Depression-era tax dollars were wasted on someone who would spend the rest of her life railing against government spending and praising the people whose greed and excess made that spending necessary.
"She claimed to have created herself with the help of no one, even though she was the lifelong beneficiary of social democratic largesse. She got a college education thanks to the Russian Revolution, which opened universities to women and Jews and, once the Bolsheviks had seized power, made tuition free. Subsidizing theater for the masses, the Bolsheviks also made it possible for Rand to see cheesy operettas on a weekly basis. After Rand's first play closed in New York City in April 1936, the Works Progress Administration took it on the road to theaters across the country, giving Rand a handsome income of $10 a performance throughout the late 1930s. Librarians at the New York Public Library assisted her with the research for The Fountainhead."
That's probably the most important passage from an article on Ayn Rand by The Nation's Corey Robin.
It's a shame that Depression-era tax dollars were wasted on someone who would spend the rest of her life railing against government spending and praising the people whose greed and excess made that spending necessary.
Labels: Ayn Rand, Conservatives, Hypocrisy
