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An Angry Reader Says We Are –
Well, He’s Angry.
A Reader Reveals Rand Was A Restrictionist!
From: A California Reader
In your review of Death Of The
West, you
mentioned how Reason’s Brian Doherty was
baffled by Buchanan's alleged “obsessions with
nationality and ethnicity,” and you added, “But they
aren’t in the Ayn Rand playbook, you see.” I don't doubt
for a moment that the Objectivist establishment simply
will not touch this issue. However, I cannot help but
recall this quote from John Galt's speech in
Atlas Shrugged (1957, hardcover, p. 1055)....
You
have reached the blind alley of the treason you
committed when you agreed that you had no right to
exist. Once, you believed it was “only a compromise”:
you conceded it was evil to live for yourself, but moral
to live for the sake of your children. Then you conceded
that it was selfish to live for your children, but moral
to live for your community. Then you conceded that it
was selfish to live for your community, but moral to
live for your country. Now, you are letting this
greatest of countries be devoured by any scum from any
corner of the earth, while you concede that it is
selfish to live for your country and that your moral
duty is to live for the globe.
The word “Now” was emphasized in
the original, but today one cannot help but emphasize
the rest.
March 04, 2002
