From: joemahoney1950@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 2:17:03 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to   
   reply) wrote:   
   > In article <8946a9de-e700-40ee-8d35-07101d5b3ac8@googlegroups.com>, Joe   
   > Mahoney  writes:    
   >    
   > > "Ayn Rand's philosophy is the only one applicable in the world today."   
   > >    
   > >  -- Neil Peart   
   > >    
   > > "Ayn Rand has brought forth a lot of concepts and philosophies that have    
   > > confirmed  for us a lot of different things."   
   > >      
   > >    -- Geddy Lee   
   > >    
   > > "Individualism is the only thing that allows MEN to be happy."   
   > >     
   > >    -- Neil Peart   
   > >    
   > > "We are conservative, and we certainly hope our fans are too.   
   > >    
   > >     -- Geddy Lee   
   >    
   > Please provide a) dates for all of the above quotes (any real Rush fan    
   > knows that Neil has since distanced himself from Rand) and b) context    
   > (for example, what does "conservative" refer to---politics, music,    
   > relationships, clothes?).   
      
   By conservative they meant politics.  And I don't rememba the dates but the   
   quotes are recent, I just saw the otticle today. And Neil never really   
   "distanced" himself from Rand.  Look at the enthusiasm for her in their   
   quotes; his "distancing" from her    
   is lukewarm and just done for PR purposes so they wouldn't be ignored by the   
   wibwoo media and they could continue selling albums and spreading their   
   conservative message.  Look at what Neil said, wholeheartedly, about Rand's   
   philosophy being "the only    
   one applicable" in the world today.  Not Plato -- that was ancient Rome   
   anyway, so they didn't know anything.  Not any of those fools from the 1700s   
   who was so "enlightened" - I'd like to see them refute Behe, Dembski, and   
   Intelligent Design Science!     
   And not any of the so-called analytic philosophers, cause they were more   
   concerned with writing books than protecting our borders from the Mexican   
   Caravans.   
      
   Why do you suppose Rush didn't decide to quit till Trump got elected?  They   
   were going to continue with albums, promoting Neil's radical right, Ayn   
   Rand-inspirted musings, until Trump got elected and they knew the rest of the   
   world had caught on.  Neil    
   keeps a close eye on the border with his telescopes and rifles in the Santa   
   Monica hills.  But otherwise he is quite content with how the world has turned   
   out.   
      
   Geddy once said that Rush probably wouldn't do an album of instrumentals   
   because they needed to complain about what was wrong in the world.  My   
   friends, with Trump at the Helm, the world is at last headed in the right   
   direction.  As God intended.  There'   
   s no longer any reason for Rush to complain, or even to continue on...so they   
   quit and are now relaxing, though occasionally (like yours truly) getting   
   ticked off about the wibwoos on CNN, or MSNBC, or in the fields of so-called   
   "science" and "litriture."   
     But aside from that, these are some content old dudes, eating their pizzas,   
   pastries, and drinkin their Bud Lite's.   
      
   Joe "Spiritual not religious" M.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)