From PJ MEDIA: "Ayn Rand Was Right About the Left (AGAIN)"

[ThatGuy]

From PJ MEDIA: "Ayn Rand Was Right About the Left (AGAIN)"

 

"Insanity Wrap only brings up the story again because we wanted to remind you that Ayn Rand called this one almost 65 years ago in Atlas Shrugged."

 

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/06/25/ayn-rand-was-right-about-the-left-again-n1457104?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=b64fe6d411b2e38abbbeef601f1b28a1&recip=28420294

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

This merits the text (since over time, that entry will go down and away into the archives hole).

First it referenced the following article: University demands people stop saying 'trigger warning' because it's too triggering.

Then follows the text (which is not the text of the above-linked article):

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You might have already seen Tyler O’Neil’s article earlier this week that Brandeis University — that fever swamp of woke silliness — has put a trigger warning on the use of “trigger warning.”

“Killing it” is also doubleplusungood wrongthink because “if someone is doing well, we don’t need to equate that to murder!”

With no ugly words, there are no ugly thoughts, comrades.

Insanity Wrap only brings up the story again because we wanted to remind you that Ayn Rand called this one almost 65 years ago in Atlas Shrugged.

Industrialist Hank Rearden was stuck by the government with a muddle-headed college grad with a worthless degree to “help” him run his steel mill.

Early on in their government-mandated business relationship, “Wet Nurse” Tony earnestly parroted to Rearden what he’d been taught in college, that “Words are relative. They’re only symbols.”

“If we don’t use ugly symbols, we won’t have any ugliness,” Wet Nurse really believed.

Rand described him this way:

"The boy had no inkling of any concept of morality; it had been bred out of him by his college; this had left him an odd frankness, naïve and cynical at once, like the innocence of a savage."

Tony was a work of fiction — if only we could say the same of Brandeis.

What was a tragi-comic warning in 1957 is the norm today on most college campuses.

It’s been a long time since Insanity Wrap has taken Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, with anything other than a huge grain of salt. At least on a personal level, Objectivism is so strict, so unforgiving, that Rand would have had Torquemada telling her, “Listen, lady, you’ve got to cut people some slack!”

But Rand was — and remains, decades after her death — a bitterly prescient critic of Leftism.

The good news, I suppose, is that there will no longer be trigger warnings at Brandeis, just triggers.

And we know what college kids will do with that on all sides.

 

Michael