Why The Left Lie About Ayn Rand

Listening to Stepehn Fry tell an interviewer why he hates Ayn Rand anyone not familiar with her writings would think her a preternatural monster up there with Hitler and Ghingis Kahn.(Indeed this is not an exagerration as Hitler is often invoked by the Left when discussing Rand of which perhaps more later.)

This is a syndrome that those familiar with Rand's critics and the methods they employ will recognise all too readily.It seems that their desperate desire to appear even handed fair reasonable and intellectually honest in discussions flies out the window when confronted with the uncompromising Rand and her unique brand of individualism and assault on collectivist thinking.When under threat and put under the microscope the Left have no conpunction in resorting to the most crude primitive anti intellectual weapons of assault including ad hominem ,non sequitors,evasions,distortions,caricatures and smears.

Fry admits to not having been able to read Atlas Shrugged but does not of course allow this to be an impediment from passing damning and definitive judgement upon it.Imagine if someone came along and asserted that although they had never completed reading a single work by Dickens or Shakespeare this was not a bar to being an authority on the subject and how they would be laughed out of court by Fry and co.

Obviously when dealing with an unalloyed evil like Rand the Left do not feel obliged to follow the normal rules of critical engagement and objectivity.Why bother with any of that when the scatter gun approach of unsubstantiated charge and abuse will serve your purpose just as well?

To be specific Fry denounces Rand's 'hatred of ordinary people' which he terms 'just sick'.It is true that the Randian universe is mostly peopled with the extraordinary but that is the whole point.She is from the Romantic school of hero worship.Just as well criticise the authors of Superman or Batman for their lack of depiction of ordinariness and mediocrities.There is a whole literary genre depicting ordinary folk in the literature of Naturalism where anybody can have their fill of portrayals of zero worship and the anti hero.

In wanting freedom over slavery surely it could be argued that Rand is showing more respect for the ordinary people than the likes of Fry and his fellow collectivists who would have everyone herded into a Socialist commune and be delivered State edicts and directions from on high - for their own best interests of course.Disturbingly in his assault of Rand Fry evokes Meine Kampf and The Communist Manifesto and remarks that although Stalin did some terrible things at least the Manifesto offers some hope for humanity!Yes it is hard to fathom just how intellectualy dishonest delinquent and well,evil the Left can be.Perhaps he shares the latter's view that while one death is a tragedy a million is a statistic?