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PC is kind of bullshit imo. There are situations in which being somewhat PC would be better for everyone, but of course, people take it too fucken far.
O'Reilly will stay on the air sadly because of his ratings. We can get rid of him along with Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck off Fox as well.
Ayn Rand lol lol lol lol lol
Rand is not taken seriously at all by academic philosophers and is in fact derided by many of them. The snippets of her writings that I have read all looked very amateurish to me, like some community college dropout trying to do philosophy.
edit: well, I shouldn't say at all because that's not entirely accurate, but it's probably close enough.
edit: I get the impression that Rand is largely ignored in academic philosophy, maybe because people in the discipline don't find it worth their time to engage with her works. Whenever I've heard her mentioned around other grad students she is only spoken of in disparaging terms. So the impression I get is that she is either ignored (she only very recently got an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) or derided for the most part. But there are serious academic philosophers who do take some of what she has to say seriously. John Hospers and Roderick Long are the ones I know of who do. I think this phenomenon is probably partly unfair and partly justified.
Brady/Birdy, if you ever did read Atlas Shrugged and then looked around at today's political and economic landscape, you wouldn't be laughing. You'd be turning the inside cover over and over again, looking at it and doing a double take and then be saying, "Holy SHIT! This was written in 1957???"
It is somewhat uncanny how she predicted the way certain government programs/institutions would conflict/interfere with the private sector.
EDIT: In all honesty, criticism on Rand is comprised of two camps, both of them heavily "pop-culture" in nature: a) the uneducated (concerning her works) liberal camp who comprehend only a rough caricature of her and use that as their benchmark for criticism against free market enterprise, and b) the conservative (or neocon) right-wing capitalists who have read her works, but utilize only the most basic premises of her economic theories and choose to ignore her other ideas concerning religion and other social institutions. Neither camp should be considered Rand experts.