Attila & Witch Doctor

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Greetings,

At 10:25 PM 12/5/98 -0700, you wrote:

>

<<<<SNIP>>>>>>

>> Sorry to edit the above, but I really can't include this filth in something

>> I reply to.

>>

>> Anyway, this kind of response seems all to common.  Far too often

>> Christians will change personalities before our very eyes.  How quickly the

>> warm grin and the gracious "Believe in what I tell you, friend...." turns

>> into a toothy snarl and a rasping "....or I will kill you!"

>>

>> What is it that Rand said about the "Mystics of Faith" and the "Mystics of

>> Muscle?"

>>

>> Carl Geisik

>

>Greetings Carl:  Ayn Rand:  The essential characters of these two are Attila,

>the man who rules by brute force, acts on the range of the moment, is

concerned

>with nothing but the physical reality immediately before him, respects

nothing

>but man's muscles, and regards a fist, a club or a gun as the only answer

to any

>problem----and the witch doctor, the man who dreads physical reality,

dreads the

>necessity of practical action, and escapes into his emotions, into visions of

>some mystic realm where his wishes enjoy a supernatural power unlimited by

the

>absolute of nature. (pg. 12 For The New Intellectual).   Gloria

>

>


GEISIK

Thank you for the reference.  The question was intended to be rhetorical.
My point was that Rand clearly shows that the epistemology of both of these
two people are the same.  For all intents and purposes, they are
interchangable.

For a further discussion on this topic, I would suggest the two essays:

"Of Living Death", The Voice of Reason, Essays in Objectivist Thought
"Religion vs America", IBID

and

"The Ominous Parallels", Leonard Peikoff

Carl Geisik

P.S.  Glad to find another Rand fan.

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