Why AR loved the U.S.

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Five reasons Ayn Rand loved the United States of America: 'The right to live by one's own judgment'

WWW.FOXNEWS.COM

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Ayn Rand advocated individual rights and limited government; born in totalitarian Russia she loved the United States and believed in American...

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

B,

Let's give people a taste, shall we?

The five reasons in the article:

1. She grasped and proselytized the power of the Declaration of Independence

2. Rand fled totalitarianism overseas and prospered in America

3. Like the Founding Fathers, Rand was an advocate of reason

4. Rand believed individual initiative and limited government fueled the common good

5. She spoke and wrote eloquently of American exceptionalism

 

And the final paragraph.

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Rand wrote powerfully of America: "I can say, not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots — that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world."

 

Michael

[Backlighting]

Hello Michael,

Perhaps unknown to many is that AR had a sense of humor. As I posted here a long time ago I was in attendance for a speech (The Anti-Industrial Revolution)she gave at the Ford Hall Forum during the early '70s. During the question & answer period someone in the audience asked her to elaborate on a passage from Atlas Shrugged. He said he didn't quite understand it. AR replied " if you don't understand my writing you certainly won't understand my speaking" (she was obviously referring to her heavy Russian accent) The audience broke out in laughter.

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

 

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

B,

Barbara used to tell a story of Rand and a few other insider ladies way back when. They got stranded on a highway after one of those Ford Hall Forum lectures. The driving arrangements got mixed up.

So Rand suggested they hitchhike and asked the other ladies to stand back. She said she would make sure someone would stop. She went to the road, raised the hem of her skirt a little and said, "Let's give them a little leg."

 

I probably butchered parts of this story since I am going from memory, but I am sure of the last statement. It caused me to laugh. And it sounded a lot like the Hollywood of her time... 

 

Michael