Politics

[prozak at anus.com]

> > You discredited your reading list completely with the last item, in
> > my view. 
> 
> Sort of like the way Iron Butterfly discredits your whole "death and black
> metal" pose?  ;)

Well... that's different. How much not to tell anyone?

> > Authors need to learn to walk before they can run, and in a
> > philosophical sense, Ayn Rand is barely crawling :)
> 
> Don't disagree with you there. The interesting and relevant thing is that
> _Anthem_ was written in 1937, long before Orwell's _1984_. Not sure whether
> she was influenced by Zamyatin's _We_, which is the Ur-text for both
> Huxley's and Orwell's dystopias but, being Russian, I'd say it's highly
> likely. And at least it's short.

Wasn't Brave New World in the early 30s? I forget. Interesting about 
Zamyatin... never heard of 'im.

> As I've said here before, while Rand's books might be crap, both as
> literature and as political ideology, they've been enormously influential,
> particularly in America, and particularly on Josephine & Joe Public.

All things must be studied, even illogical ones.

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