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Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis

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Romantic Heretic6/01/2013 8:24:09 pm PDT

I just had to come back to this because I remembered this little quote.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

As for China, it’s no longer a Communist state, that is, run on Marxist principles. It’s now simply an an advanced authoritarian state not dissimilar to, say, Pinochet’s Chile. Although it uses Marxism as a cover for its true form.

Which is why businesses are flocking there. Capitalism is more comfortable in such states than it is in democracies.