Ayn Rand ... memento

Iata ca a reaparut pe firmament, invocata de "the new American Right", stafia fascinanto-fanatica a lui Ayn Rand..., cea care a scris prin anii `50, renumitele romane "The Fountainhead" si "Atlas Shrugged".
Popularitatea acestor romane in America anilor '50, este explicata foarte frumos de un critic foarte apreciat (si nu doar de mine ...):
Claudia Roth Pierpont claimed that the popularity of the novel was due to “impassioned readers, emerging from the largely abandoned American class of thinking non-intellectuals-readers, who enjoyed the story and were excited or flattered to just to be put in touch with provocative ideas. If you didn’t find the book ridiculous from a literary point of view, chances are you found it immensely stimulating (New Yorker 1996).” Rand claims that her philosophy illuminates metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, politics, and economics, all subject matters that few are well informed about, ... but many feel they should be knowledgeable in.

Ayn Rand a creat miscarea filozofico-economico-eroico-erotica, numita "Objectivism", teorie zamislita in si din propriul ei cap, dupa cum ne explica ea insasi in acest splendid interview.


Unul din numerosii admiratori ai ideilor lui Ayn, in zilele noastre, este chiar Mark Sanford, pateticul guvernator al statului South Carolina, care a fost si el incercat de convulsiile eroismului erotic extra-marital provocate de intilnirile spirituale cu un "soul mate" aflat hat-departe, prin Argentina ...
Dar ce sa ne miram de pateticul Gov.Mark Sanford, ...
cind pina si Alan Greenspan (care azi admite ca ... his free-market ideology was wrong), a avut o perioada nebunateca in timpul tineretii in care a sucombat vrajii lui Ayn Rand, the Goddess of Free-Market, si mai ales..., the Goddess of Free Love.

Iata ce se povesteste despre relatia ei completa, timp de 14 ani, cu Nathaniel Branden (né Nathan Blumenthal , care si-a schimbat numele pentru a incorpora particula "rand"), principalul ei discipol, adept si promotor ... "Sex and romance loomed unusually large in Rand’s worldview. Objectivism taught that intellectual parity is the sole legitimate basis for romantic or sexual attraction... Cine vrea sa afle mai multe despre acest "steaming affair", este invitat sa Read More...
Coincidentally enough, this doctrine cleared the way for Rand--a woman possessed of looks that could be charitably described as unusual, along with abysmal personal hygiene and grooming habits--to seduce young men in her orbit. Rand not only persuaded Branden, who was twenty-five years her junior, to undertake a long-term sexual relationship with her, she also persuaded both her husband and Branden’s wife to consent to this arrangement. (They had no rational basis on which to object, she argued.) But she prudently instructed them to keep the affair secret from the other members of the Objectivist inner circle.

At some point, inevitably, the arrangement began to go very badly. Branden’s wife began to break down--Rand diagnosed her with "emotionalism," never imagining that her sexual adventures might have contributed to the young woman’s distraught state. Branden himself found the affair ever more burdensome and grew emotionally and sexually withdrawn from Rand. At one point Branden suggested to Rand that a second affair with another woman closer to his age might revive his lust. Alas, Rand--whose intellectual adjudications once again eerily tracked her self-interest--determined that doing so would "destroy his mind." He would have to remain with her. Eventually Branden confessed to Rand that he could no longer muster any sexual attraction for her, and later that he actually had undertaken an affair with another woman despite Rand’s denying him permission. After raging at Branden, Rand excommunicated him fully. The two agreed not to divulge their affair. Branden told his followers only that he had "betrayed the principles of Objectivism" in an "unforgiveable" manner and renounced his role within the organization.

Rand’s inner circle turned quickly and viciously on their former superior. Alan Greenspan, a cherished Rand confidant, signed a letter eschewing any future contact with Branden or his wife. Objectivist students were forced to sign loyalty oaths, which included the promise never to contact Branden, or to buy his forthcoming book or any future books that he might write. Rand’s loyalists expelled those who refused these orders, and also expelled anyone who complained about the tactics used against dissidents. Some of the expelled students, desperate to retain their lifeline to their guru, used pseudonyms to re-enroll in the courses or re-subscribe to her newsletter. But many just drifted away, and over time the Rand cult dwindled to a hardened few.