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                                Mozart was a Red
                                        
> CARSON (quickly): That's all right. That doesn't matter. Your taste reveals
> your musical premises.
> 
> KEITH (puzzled): Oh? Well, I like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, the standard …
> 
> GRETA: Oh!
> 
> CARSON: Keith, how could you? I, who know the depth of depravity to which
> most men sink, even I have to ask myself, how can they? Beethoven, Mozart,
> who reek of naturalism, whose whole work tramples on values, whose every
> note displays the malevolent universe premise.
> 
> KEITH (stunned): Malev … ?
> 
> CARSON: Oh, Keith, can't you see the hatred of life in every bar of their
> music?
> 

Via the Mises Economics Blog [1], “Mozart was a Red [2]”

I do like a good satire.

About a decade ago I read _Atlas Shrugged_ [3] because a friend of mine
became enamored with her works and I wanted to understand what exactly
happened to him (it was an okay book but could have seriously been edited (A
quick synopsis of Atlas Shrugged) [4]). But the more I read about Ayn Rand
and Objectivism, the more silly it became [5] (and like any good religion, it
split—into the Peikoffian and Kelleyist camps—and I am not making that up).

And what's with Ayn Rand's lucky gold watch [6]?

Anyway, the one act play Mozart was a Red [7] is quite the amusing read,
especially if you know Ayn Rand and Objectivist history.

[1] http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/003077.asp
[2] http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/mozart.html
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451191145/conmanlaborat-
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/10/23.1
[5] http://www.jeffcomp.com/faq/wrong.html#dishonest
[6] http://home.att.net/~storytellers/sewrfaq1.html
[7] http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/mozart.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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