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Khenan



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thepeel wrote:
She sure wasn't much of a mothering, compassionate type. I think it rather fair to say that she was somewhat indifferent to the plight of the working poor and unemployed in capitalistic economies.


Well, if she was so indifferent to the working masses, why does she seem so interested in the long-term scope of human history (and future)? It seems to me that the masses represent the bulk of history.

I mean, I know she was a big fan of immortalizing specific key individuals (builders of the Parthenon, etc.), but they would neither exist, nor have purpose, without the rest of humanity.
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Khenan



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also (I learned my lesson about editing posts), what about the construction worker that idolizes Roark? I can't remember his name. Isn't he an example of the masses giving social meaning to the immortalized individuals?

Edit, cause I've got to pay more attention to my wording.
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thepeel



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't remember the specifics. But she would likely have seen poverty as either an outcome of government intervention in the economy or some personal failure on the part of the individual poor dude. Not all dissimilar from standard right-wing opinion.

She was a rugged individualist and would have expected people to largely take care of their own lives. And where they failed, she would have expected charity to step in. But again, her primary concern was central planning and not specifics of public policy.
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