One of my new favourite quotes:
I’ve never been impressed by middle ground, or compromising, or art-of-the-possible stuff. Why would people bother with politics if that’s all they wanted to do? If you weren’t trying so see if you could expand the art of the possible at least, break the limits of the feasible, redefine them, expand them—why would you bother? Who wants to be just a manager?
After a long while as director of this and manager of that, I’ve grown to realize that he’s right – ‘manager’ is a crap job for a crap man. Unless you are the total master of your domain then you’re a sucker. Who wants to bend over and submit? And what is compromise – but a tarted up form of giving in?
As much as Hitchens hates Ayn Rand, as he evidently does, there’s something of the Randian hero in him.
That quote is from an unpublished excerpt of an extended interview with the great man in Prospect Magazine. Much recommended.
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