“The Only Way To Be In Love”
by Craig Elliott on February 14, 20123 comments
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Letters of Note has this flowery response from Ayn Rand to a fan who had a question about a particular line in The Fountainhead – “To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I’.”
Any person who wants to live for others — for one sweetheart or for the whole of mankind — is a selfless nonentity. An independent “I” is a person who exists for his own sake. Such a person does not make any vicious pretense of self-sacrifice and does not demand it from the person he loves. Which is the only way to be in love and the only form of a self-respecting relationship between two people.
(snif) Tears. Streaming down my face. Where is the line of greeting cards we have been waiting for?
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3 comments
Nick Glossop on February 14, 2012 at 1:47 pm. #
We could rework Radar Love as Randroid Love… …or not.
Andrew Loewen on February 14, 2012 at 6:01 pm. #
Following the link to this on my FB wall, a friend (this guy) responded to the prompt for Objectivist Valentine’s cards thus:
“You are my insignificant other.” “I exist for my own sake, you for yours. The first one to want to be kissed is the bitch.” “Your hot bod make me feel Randy-ian – which is also to say, I feel a cosmically contemptuous indifference toward it, spiked with a vague curiosity that makes me decide to keep it around to service my sexual needs. Happy humpday.”
Andrew Loewen on February 14, 2012 at 6:23 pm. #
And another friend takes David’s text to the graphic level.