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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comIT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND 261noted a new phenomenon, “the Anti-Randian Mentality,” or the growingpractice of libertarians “gaining apparent psychological enjoyment andesteem from making publicly a disparaging snide or comical innuendoabout Ayn Rand or certain Objectivist jargon.” Although there indeedmight be “humorous aspects” to Objectivism, the newsletter declaredthat it was harmful to single out Rand for ridicule since she remained“the fountainhead” of libertarianism.More substantively Rand’s patriotism and her reverence for theFounding Fathers were controversial in a movement that considered theConstitution a coercive document (because it claimed jurisdiction overeven those who had not signed). 41 Rand’s account of the Apollo 11 launchcrystallized this difference for many. In the Objectivist she described howshe had been invited to a VIP viewing of the rocket launch. Shepherdedpast the masses to within three miles of the take-off, Rand was awestruck.Apollo 11 was “the concretized abstraction of man’s greatness,”and as she saw the rocket rise she had “a feeling that was not triumph:but more: the feeling that that white object’s unobstructed streak ofmotion was the only thing that mattered in the universe.” 42 It was a masterfulpiece of writing that became one of Rand’s personal favorites.Reading her account, Jerome Tuccille was incredulous. In The RationalIndividualist he asked, “Has Ayn Rand been co-opted into the system byher new role as White House ‘parlor intellectual’?” To Tuccille NASA wasa bunch of “bandits operating with billions of dollars stolen from thetaxpayer—‘rational’ bandits, perhaps, achieving a superlative technologicalfeat—but bandits nevertheless.” 43 Libertarians might make peacewith Rand’s endorsement of limited government, but singing the praisesof NASA made Rand’s antistatism seem superficial, a belief to be castaside when convenient. Nor was the article an isolated incident. Apollo11 became an encouraging sign of the times for Rand, who referred tothe launch repeatedly in the years that followed.What libertarian critics of the “moon jaunt” missed was how Rand’sappreciation of Apollo 11 was tied to her ever-present worry that theUnited States was going backward, regressing to Petrograd circa 1920.Her fears were stirred anew by the emergence of the environmentalmovement, which she viewed as a virulent atavism that would dragmankind back to primitive existence. In her 1970 lecture to the FordHall Forum she attacked environmentalism as “the Anti-Industrial