{"id":190544,"date":"2009-11-15T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/15\/quote-of-the-day-258\/"},"modified":"2009-11-15T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:01:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/15\/quote-of-the-day-258\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/ayn-rand-the-bitch-is-back\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29\">Ayn Rand: The Boring Bitch is Back<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Barry Ritholtz discussing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/entertainment\/books\/200911\/ayn-rand-dick-books-fountainhead\">article in GQ<\/a> that excoriates the author<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Ritholtz himself describes her as a, &#8220;pedantic bore,&#8221; who writes, &#8220;blindingly horrific prose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I agree with both, though I have never been able to force myself to read anything of hers beyond <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Virtue of Selfishness<\/span>, a perusal of which made me &lt;sarcasm&gt;long for the straightforward and beautifully written prose of Immanuel Kant&lt;\/sarcasm&gt; and consider self immolation as an alternative to reading any more of hew work.<\/p>\n<p>His last bit is prize:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">\n<p>Worst of all, Rand\u2019s Objectivism has become the rationale for all manner of morally repugnant behaviour. However, I did take one personal lesson from <em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em> to heart: Anytime I see a parked car with a <strong>John Galt<\/strong> bumper sticker, I like to knock off one of the sideview mirrors, and leave it on the hood. I include a note stating my selfish, random act made me feel good, and therefore should be a perfectly fine act in their world.<\/p>\n<p>I assume the recipients miss the irony . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayn Rand: The Boring Bitch is Back &#8212;Barry Ritholtz discussing an article in GQ that excoriates the author. Ritholtz himself describes her as a, &#8220;pedantic bore,&#8221; who writes, &#8220;blindingly horrific prose.&#8221; I agree with both, though I have never been able to force myself to read anything of hers beyond The Virtue of Selfishness, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1002,1003,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}