Comments on: Fifty Shades of Misinterpretation: Using Fifty Shades of Grey as a Metaphor for Capitalism http://www.politicususa.com/fifty-shades-misinterpretation-fifty-shades-grey-metaphor-capitalism.html Real Liberal Politics Wed, 22 May 2013 05:35:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=177 By: Reynardine http://www.politicususa.com/fifty-shades-misinterpretation-fifty-shades-grey-metaphor-capitalism.html#comment-198968 Reynardine Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:35:35 +0000 http://www.politicususa.com/?p=84005#comment-198968 Happy Bastille Day, folks!

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]]> By: Reynardine http://www.politicususa.com/fifty-shades-misinterpretation-fifty-shades-grey-metaphor-capitalism.html#comment-198929 Reynardine Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:47:06 +0000 http://www.politicususa.com/?p=84005#comment-198929 “Anthem” is the work she ripped off-badly- from Zamyatin’s “We”. Probably there was just enough literary worth that survived the copypasta graft to entice you. That was the year I read it, too, at the insistance of a boss who, despite professed draconian sentiments, was one of the softest-hearted creatures you could work for. None of us could decide if he had been written by Cervantes and re-written by Dickens, or vice versa. Anyway, I gave him my copy of “We”.

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]]> By: A Walkaway http://www.politicususa.com/fifty-shades-misinterpretation-fifty-shades-grey-metaphor-capitalism.html#comment-198923 A Walkaway Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:21:47 +0000 http://www.politicususa.com/?p=84005#comment-198923 Yet, as I understand it, when she was dying of cancer and needed a bit of empathy, she got on Disability. Typical selfish attitude (of course, she admired that evil trait).

She’s hideous, for sure. Uglier in her soul than the monster she admired. To think I read her and actually liked what she wrote – a science fiction piece of crap “Anthem” (my memory was that the title of the book I read was “I”), which caused me to greatly fear anything that hinted at cooperation or social organization (I read it just before I got trapped by the Assemblies of God in 1978/79 – talk about jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!).

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]]> By: Reynardine http://www.politicususa.com/fifty-shades-misinterpretation-fifty-shades-grey-metaphor-capitalism.html#comment-198912 Reynardine Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:57:55 +0000 http://www.politicususa.com/?p=84005#comment-198912 I need to elaborate. On following a link provided in this article through a series of other links, I found that Ayn Rand, inspirer of the ugliest train of thought, policies, and deeds to pollute this hemisphere (and eventually the other) from mid-Twentieth Century on, had been inspired in her philosophy and writing both, by… William Hickman, who in 1927 had kidnapped, held for ransom, and then sawed in half a twelve-year-old girl named Marian Parker. She saw him as splendid and heroic, gloriously free of the taint of empathy or social contract, and both his victim and those who demanded justice for her as a despicable collective of “parasites”. From this came the foul stream of thought which is swelling to an impending slurry slide that may yet overwhelm us all.

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]]> By: Reynardine http://www.politicususa.com/fifty-shades-misinterpretation-fifty-shades-grey-metaphor-capitalism.html#comment-198909 Reynardine Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:23:59 +0000 http://www.politicususa.com/?p=84005#comment-198909 Ayn Rand, of course.

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