From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 23:28:08 MST
From: "Richard Steven Hack" <richardhack@pcmagic.net>
> The human race exists in Darwinian competition with itself and
> all other species. Within itself, this need not be the case, but because
> of human stupidity, ignorance, irrationality, maliciousness and fear -
> characteristics I find more defining of the species than Ayn Rand's
> "rationality" ...
Rationality smashionality. (Eh ... "more defining of the species" ... is
that a reference to the "little people," so memorably described by another
ultra-capitalist, Queen Leona Helmsley?) Indeed, Ayn Rand exhibited all
the same characteristics imputed here to the rest of us, except she had them
in egregious abundance: ignorance, irrationality, maliciousness and fear
(and those characteristics add up to "human stupidity" IMO). In other
words, Ms. Rand and "the little people" turn out, indeed, to be of the same
species (a/k/a "human beings").
Skyscrapers notwithstanding, I realize Leona Helmsley and Ayn Rand are
entirely different people.
O.
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