K-Mac Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I just ordered the research CD so I won't have this issue anymore, hopefully, but does anyone know of a quote from Rand about Americans being naive to evil/evil people. Something about we don't think they mean it, but they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Andrew Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Let me do some poking around. I almost want to say that was in one of the little collections that have been published, like VoS or PWNI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I think it's the very last few lines of an essay in PWNI or VoS, so I think you're onto something too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyTrooper Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 From the essay "The Anti-Industrial Revolution": "There are three major reasons why you, and most people do not protest [the enviornmentalist attempt to reduce you to a primitive state]. (1) You take technology--and its magnificent contributions to your life-- for granted, almost as if it were a fact of nature, which will always be there. But it is not and will not. (2) As an American, you are likely to be very benevolent and enormously innocent about the nature of evil. You are unable to believe that some people can advocate man's destruction for the sake of man's destruction--and when you hear them, you think they they don't mean it. But they do. (3) Your education--by that same kind of people--has hampered your ability to translate an abstract idea into its actual, practical meaning and, therefore, has made you indifferent to and contemptuous of ideas. This is the real American tragedy." (The New Left, pp. 133) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 THANK YOU!!! Funny, I haven't read that yet so I am not sure where I saw/heard it in the first place. At any rate, I've been trying to locate it again for months, so thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nacirema Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 I think there is a similar quote in "Philosophy: Who Needs It," so that might have been where you got it from. I say that because I haven't read anything from the cited work, but I still recognized the quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 I'll have to look when I get home tonight (I'm at work now), but it could be the same essay in two places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyTrooper Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 I'll have to look when I get home tonight (I'm at work now), but it could be the same essay in two places. It's probably somewhere else too. "The New Left" is out of print but I think most of the essays from it are in "The Return of the Primitive" which I don't have a copy of yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 I believe Return of the Primitive is essentially the same book as the new left (they are both subtitled "The Anti Industrial Revolution", with one or two more essays added. (This actually annoys me a tad; I get the feeling they are trying to milk me.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musenji Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 This isn't restricted to the non-fiction. It's a theme with both Dagny and Hank, in Atlas Shrugged, if I recall correctly--they both make speculative conclusions about family members but are incapable of believing that anyone would be "that evil". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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