Atheism isn’t just anti-American; it is anti-human. The quotation from Rand claiming that what separates man from animals is rationality is idiotic Enlightenment fantasy. Man is a social animal. Men live in social groups — no other way. Social groups operate upon innate Human Nature. Specific norms can vary, but norms there always are and must be. E.g., men’s occupations are higher-status than women’s occupations. Whatever men do is high-status (chef, doctor, athlete, warrior). If women do these same things, they are not high-status (cook, nurse, athlette, broad-*ss marine (BAM). Take a high-status occupation, doctor, in the USSR, and place women in it as a majority, and it becomes a low-status occupation, with low pay and low prestige, as indeed happened in the USSR. Any occupation’s status is determined by the norms and mores of every society. No government, no matter how totalitarian, can alter these rules. Leftists and Libertarians are people who base their entire philosophy on the belief that all these social rules are incidental, accidental, and irrational products of unthinking, prejudiced masses. All that’s required for the Leftist, ratioanl human society is for education in the ‘right ways’ to be instituted. Whe Leftists get into power, they implement their philosophy and punish opposition. They think they might have to use some nudging for adults, but the kids will fall right into line when properly taught. Ooops, somehow the first generation still maintains all the old prejudices. Well, never mind, we’ll bet the next batch. As the poliburo hacks found out, no amount of indoctrination or force eliminates the old social structures. BTW, did anybody ever dare to ask how many women sat on the inner-circle of the politburo? See Siberia now!!!! Leftism also required denial of scientifiic knowledge and the institutiton of Lysenkoism in Russia as the scientific concensus. Think it’s any different over here in Leftist-land? What do Leftists think about IQ tests? Racial/sex differences? Do you believe that the only difference bewteen men and women’ behavior is determined by environmental influences? Ayn Rand, was of course, a detestable human being. But I would argue that her inherited personality accounts for her philosophy, which only validated her anti-social behavior, as with all Libertarians and Leftists. Do you imagine that Karl Marx would have worked his entire life to concoct a philosophy discrediting normal, natural human societies if he’d been able to get along with anybody? Look into the lives of influential Leftists and get ready for the side-show. J.S. Mill, Rousseau, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol-Pot: the freak parade goes on and on.
