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who is chatting on SOLO ChatThe Free RadicalPopular contentPollWhat should the government do about ailing financial institutions? Nothing, except to back off and get out—as any Objectivist knows, intervention is treating the disease with the disease 85% Intervene judiciously—enough to avert a catastrophe that is otherwise imminent 3% Intervene massively—as it's doing 2% Nationalize the whole economy and be done with it. Bring on the USSA! 2% Something else (specify) 8% Total votes: 59
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Barbara Branden Interview by Lindsay Perigo Submitted by Lindsay Perigo on Tue, 2008-07-01 03:17.
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I wonder what Campbell thinks of BB's belief that Rand's life and person showed that her fictional characters were possible, at least to some extent?
I wonder what BB thinks of it!!
BB At Her Very Best
No doubt.
"I think she made a serious mistake in her estimation of Nathan."
Agreed.
Her accusations against Peikoff are, of course, way off base.
For example, the published Rand journals and letters were not "censored" much less "useless"(!)
I wonder what Campbell thinks of BB's belief that Rand's life and person showed that her fictional characters were possible, at least to some extent? Buying into her "mythos"?
Bugger...
that last paragraph of PAR always manages to make my eyes well up.
Barbara said during that interview "She wanted to portray Ayn as a person... she was not a goddess.... and she was not a devil...."
yet so much of her and the O-Living crowd's harping is precisely over Ayn's "devilry." Tis a sad betrayal as well as being a contradiction.
One from the archives ...
... from pre-PARC days when I revered PAR and its author. The premiere Rand-diminisher was not at all on display here.