Re: Happy 50th, ‘Atlas Shrugged’!
On Sep 15, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
One of my fave anti-Rand quotes came from Gore Vidal who, when
reviewing one of her books in the late-50s, said that Rand made well-poisoning
one of the kindlier arts.
Then there was Whittaker Chambers:
http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback200501050715.asp
Therefore, resistance to the Message cannot be tolerated because
disagreement can never be merely honest, prudent, or just humanly
fallible. Dissent from revelation so final (because, the author would
say, so reasonable) can only be willfully wicked. There are ways of
dealing with such wickedness, and, in fact, right reason itself
enjoins them. From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be
heard, from painful necessity, commanding: “To a gas chamber — go!”