Zonpower and Salvador Dali's "Last Supper"
One of the most breathtaking paintings of any age is Salvador Dali's "Last
Supper". And, as many Objectivists know, that painting was one of Ayn Rand's
favorites. Jesus appears indescribably beautiful, innocent, and benevolent. He
appears as the Chairman presiding over a Universe-500 board meeting. Notice even
the neatly cropped, modern New York executive haircuts of the Apostles. Dali
delivered a radical presentation of Christ never before seen among the thousands
of holy paintings by hundreds of master artists over the millennium.
Imagine this crystal-clear painting being cast as a giant, ten-thousand-piece
jigsaw puzzle. Now, imagine a dishonest blowhard, kiddie -- a pip -- plucking a
piece, any piece, or a handful of pieces, from that painting. Then imagine that
pip waving those pieces before a public who had never before seen the whole
picture of that masterpiece. Using glib words and dishonest non sequiturs, that
pip harangues his audience: In tearing down the great value of Dali and his
masterpiece, that pip captures an unearned ego trip.
The pip simply needs to hold up the piece or pieces of the puzzle ripped from
the total picture and loudly proclaim: "Look at this Dali-crap! It's valued only
by Dali-kooks. This proves that Daliism is new-age cult stuff, pseudo art, a
sham", the pip blusters. The attacking pip then swells up with feel-big ego for
publicly, effortlessly exposing the Dali "fraud". Through his unjust
no-effort attack, the pip feels superior to the lifetime hard efforts produced
by Dali.
Those who had never seen Dali's complete painting could not know that the
facts were the opposite to the non sequiturs being dishonestly pronounced. How
could they know that the exposing "hero" was really a nothingness fraud while
the exposed "fraud" was a beautiful gem?
In the same way, pips throughout the establishment constantly tear down Ayn
Rand and her work. Likewise, in that same way, pips have often torn down, even
killed or destroyed, the most radical yet greatest of civilization-benefiting
value producers throughout history -- Socrates, Galileo, Michael Milken. :)
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Phil Scott