Rand has an inordinate appeal to two groups.

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ER — 7/9/2012 11:42:30 PM (archived)

1) Adolescents who feel an inherent arrogance and contempt about their own superiority over those they perceive as weak and helpless cattle.

2) The middle-aged whose lives haven't turned out quite the way they expected them to, and who need a scapegoat to pin their own shortcomings on.

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Dinosaurs and Humans - Jody - 7/9/2012 2:55:14 PM
- Interesting Jody. Too bad it had to be soiled by politics. - RobVG - 7/10/2012 3:03:42 AM
  - Another case where nobody really thinks it through. - TB - 7/10/2012 3:18:10 AM
    - Thanks. That's what I wanted to see. n/t - RobVG - 7/10/2012 2:57:35 PM
- No. - podrock - 7/9/2012 6:40:42 PM
  - Bless you, Pod... - ER - 7/9/2012 7:03:28 PM
    - A correction: - TB - 7/9/2012 10:12:53 PM
      - Among Republicans... - ER - 7/9/2012 11:58:26 PM
        
        Actually... - TB - 7/10/2012 12:27:09 AM
        
        Actually - ER - 7/10/2012 1:01:36 AM
        
        I see. - TB - 7/10/2012 1:35:55 AM
        
        Maybe it was a conceptual metaphor. - ER - 7/10/2012 1:47:11 AM
    - Yeah, silly me, I thought "A was A". - podrock - 7/9/2012 9:48:55 PM
      - Rand has an inordinate appeal to two groups. - ER - 7/9/2012 11:42:30 PM
        
        Heh... - TB - 7/10/2012 12:30:23 AM
        
        If it makes you feel any better, - ER - 7/10/2012 1:10:21 AM
      - "A is A" was Aristotle. - TB - 7/9/2012 10:15:21 PM
        
        yes, but adopted and promoted by Rand as a central concept. - podrock - 7/9/2012 11:11:31 PM
- Re: Dinosaurs and Humans - podrock - 7/9/2012 6:24:58 PM
  - Re: Dinosaurs and Humans - Jody - 7/9/2012 10:08:59 PM
- Moving a post - TB - 7/9/2012 3:09:24 PM
  - Re: Moving a post - Jody - 7/9/2012 4:13:33 PM

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