I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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What's so convenient about this is there's no falsification. If you live according to Rand's doctrine and don't achieve then it's not your fault, it's the parasites who leech off your obviously superior talent. One day, though, people like you will stop producing and the entire world will screech to a halt.
It's this self-aggrandizement that makes Rand attractive, and even allows people whom she would probably view as parasites to see themselves as innovators. It provides a ready-made model of haves and have nots, and everyone can easily view themselves as a have being dragged down by have nots. It's the same set of tendencies that makes nationalistic philosophies like facism so attractive, you tell one class they are superior and all their failures are due to the other classes.
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Anyone who comes to the above conclusion has either 1) not thoroughly read Rand or 2) thoroughly read but not understood Rand. It's really tiresome to see her philosophy repeatedly summarized so erroneously like this.