Why do the victims of Objectivism eat their young? Yaron Brook told them to.
I went easier on Leonard Piekoff, Rand’s designated intellectual error, because that tired old man deserves a rest from a weary life of schlepping all the ugly baggage his adoptive Jewish Mother stuck him with. I have one more trick up my sleeve for Pope Sneakoff, but a man who cannot recognize that saying abortion is pro-life implies that extermination is proliferation is possessed of a mind well beyond reason. Sic semper tyrannosauris. Thus, always, to dinosaurs.
But Brook professes to be the brains behind an outfit devoted to robbing its most studious and conscientious victims of their brains, so it is him I have held to account. Ayn Rand wrote all about evasion, and the intellectual error’s intellectual error has clearly studied up, taking account of how studiously he has evaded the implosion of the Infanticide Indoctrinal Complex.
That much is merely comic. Ayn Rand denied Piekoff and her other slavish acolytes the right to think in their own behalf, and the sole mission of the no-thinking-allowed-tank that bears her name has been to ossify her outrageous errors while doing everything possible to destroy what remains of her reputation. Mission accomplished, gents.
But: Who cares? The world is crawling with Babbitts busily wasting time, and it’s not as if waging a frothy war against the worst ideas of the 19th century does any real harm – except to its self-selected victims.
But that’s the problem for me. Abortion is by now indefensible, which is plausibly why Yaron Brook and his mincing minions have so carefully evaded their brain-bound duty to defend it. Ayn Rand’s aboriginal ‘defense’ of intrauterine infanticide is risible, a childishly utilitarian rationalization for homicide worthy of her own fictional villains. The official Ayn Rand Institute stand on abortion is morally repugnant, anti-egoistic, anti-humanity, fundamentally at war with Western Civilization itself.
We become what we despise? Ayn Rand labored mightily and brought forth a Mouch. But the Mouch-of-the-microsecond is too cowardly to admit any of that – or even to acknowledge his awful self-inflicted errors – with the result that the current crop of self-selected victims of the Ayn Rand Institute are still busily aborting away their own lives, per ‘Miss Rand’s’ angry harangues. To kill – and to metaphorically eat – your own young is to introduce an ineradicable scar in your life, and this the young victims of Objectivism continue to do, on the unretracted ‘advice’ of Yaron Brook.
To be anti-family is to be anti-future, and, accordingly, all pro-abortion creeds are self-eradicating: The future belongs to the living, not the auto-annihilated. But the young victims of The Ayn Rand Institute are among the very best minds in our civilization, and by resort to this evil rationale for infanticide, Leonard Piekoff and Yaron Brook turn them into seething misanthropes, scorning and scolding the world in the name of their gradually vanishing joy in being alive.
To argue for abortion is an awful error, but to fail to correct that error, in the face of overwhelming evidence, is the soul and substance of the evasion Ayn Rand condemned in such high dudgeon. But Yaron Brook makes his cowardly, shameful, ignominious evasion of the evil of intrauterine infanticide much, much worse: By failing to publicly renounce and replace The Ayn Rand Institute’s pro-abortion stance, he leads his willing victims to atrocity – to the metaphorical cannibalism they have sworn to oppose.
Why do the victims of Objectivism eat their young? Yaron Brook told them to. And there is no hell hellish enough for an evil that vile.
