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Entry: Whittaker Chambers Versus Ayn Rand Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/whittaker_chambers_versus_ayn_rand#7707 Post contents: Cool Hand Luke ends with a dead prisoner and order in the prison camp. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ends with a dead patient and a runaway Indian. What does any of that have to do with good old American literature? It was moment in time when the actions of our enemies pushed compartmentalized post-modern artists, for better or worse, to dramatic responses, without falling for the nihilistic hedonism of existentialism. Don't like it fine, but why must ex-Commie's front the "conservative" reaction? Was Atlas Shrug's plot much deeper than a comic book? Perhaps not, but then, Chambers probably thought the Commies at Mad Magazine and those horror comics doing nothing more than putting a conservative's (Lovecraft) tales in print, were a threat to the youth of America, and meanwhile, John Wayne was filming absurd propaganda for escalating the war in Viet Nam. Sent at: 2008 07 04