Rand would be categorized as a sociopath and unfit for "civilized" society. People that praise her intentionally ignore all the bad hypocritical things she did. She prays on peoples ignorance of world and history affairs with 1/2 truths. She says a lot of good things just like if someone gives you a drink that tastes 100 good, but the poison kicks in afterwards which does the damage which is what Rand is doing and she knows it since she is out for herself as she states with a low moral trust. The godless magnate to her since she is someone they magnate to as a substitute. The open border ideology does not work for every 1st world nation next to 3rd world, and Rand knows it which she wants anarchy and total destruction. The ancient Greeks, Romans, and many longer more powerful nations knew this. The founding fathers knew this too which is why they made laws based on those examples and would find Rand an enemy against the Republic. She is an appealing character for people that are lost with no foundation or directions that do not know history, philosophy, logic, or ethics well. And the masses that are with rand will vote anti republic anti constitution Johnson, while the ones for Rand that have some sense and in power like most if not all of Ron Paul's Family and Top advisers will vote Trump. Ron will side with no one since that is his gimmick... also he is on the Tories list which the founders would kick his ass for that.
I can still remember the first time I read Nathanial Branden's "Honoring the Self." I remember thinking "This is not exactly what Mom told me." It was the most important book I ever read and led me on a journey of questioning EVERYTHING I was ever taught. Nathanial being a disciple of Rand had some Ayn Rand quotes and led me to reading her as well. "Capitalism - The Unknown Ideal" was the most astounding book in that all the things I thought about Capitalism were dead wrong. How is it possible the most productive and humane economic system ever devised is treated with such contempt by our society. The level of ignorance of the average person regarding morality and economics is shameful - as is our dreadful education system. We are a nation of idiots.
Read Anthem, and shrugged 'Shrugged' after that. Viewed the movie Fountain head, and some of her interviews. To me Ayn Rand seems more like a cult figure for the self-realization set. Howard Roark bemoans the loss of an opportunity to dominate other men through the realization of his selfish ambitions...I'm still trying to figure out why he's the good guy!
I would recommend to read her non-fiction books. As someone recommended already, The Virtue of Selfishness is great, I like Philosophy: who needs it; and if you are really serious about understanding her work, read Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.
Thanks guys. I should have looked it up but I assumed since she died in 1982 and since Reagan was elected in 1981 she would have had very little to say but I suppose I was wrong.
+Spencer Hyde I definitely don't think she had more disdain for the right than the left! She may have criticised some figures on the right but she was very critical of the whole left wing politics. She herself was quite clearly right wing on many political issues (as of course you know, e.g., economics, smaller gov., lower taxes, capitalism etc).
Yeah, it's a bit of a cult. Ayn Rand's novels are simply a collection of essays suggesting that Americans need to be more selfish. There is some truth in selfishness as a virtue, but it's the one,and probably the only one virtue that needs no further reinforcement. Rand pretty much wastes her time strenuously pointing out something that is self-evident.
Ayn Rand changed my life. She is my heroine.
mine too... She is the woman i most admire.
she is a tyrranical hippocrite she was on social security everything she believes in is full o shit
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I love the work you do, Libertypen!!
Ayn Rand was one of the voices that helped me see the light. Everyone should read We The Living!
Yep, she connected quite a few dots for me. An amazing mind who saw concepts as clearly as we see our computer monitors.
Rand would be categorized as a sociopath and unfit for "civilized" society. People that praise her intentionally ignore all the bad hypocritical things she did. She prays on peoples ignorance of world and history affairs with 1/2 truths. She says a lot of good things just like if someone gives you a drink that tastes 100 good, but the poison kicks in afterwards which does the damage which is what Rand is doing and she knows it since she is out for herself as she states with a low moral trust. The godless magnate to her since she is someone they magnate to as a substitute.
The open border ideology does not work for every 1st world nation next to 3rd world, and Rand knows it which she wants anarchy and total destruction. The ancient Greeks, Romans, and many longer more powerful nations knew this. The founding fathers knew this too which is why they made laws based on those examples and would find Rand an enemy against the Republic.
She is an appealing character for people that are lost with no foundation or directions that do not know history, philosophy, logic, or ethics well.
And the masses that are with rand will vote anti republic anti constitution Johnson, while the ones for Rand that have some sense and in power like most if not all of Ron Paul's Family and Top advisers will vote Trump. Ron will side with no one since that is his gimmick... also he is on the Tories list which the founders would kick his ass for that.
+xwsx001 Learn to english please.
English 2nd language of many. So you should learn learn history, logic, and reasoning first.
+TheTigs15 +1
I can still remember the first time I read Nathanial Branden's "Honoring the Self." I remember thinking "This is not exactly what Mom told me."
It was the most important book I ever read and led me on a journey of questioning EVERYTHING I was ever taught. Nathanial being a disciple of Rand had some Ayn Rand quotes and led me to reading her as well. "Capitalism - The Unknown Ideal" was the most astounding book in that all the things I thought about Capitalism were dead wrong.
How is it possible the most productive and humane economic system ever devised is treated with such contempt by our society. The level of ignorance of the average person regarding morality and economics is shameful - as is our dreadful education system. We are a nation of idiots.
+ed smith Well no, but good try.
I still haven't read any ayn rand. I'm excited now
Ayn Rand vs Saul Alinsky... One Builds and the other Destroys.
Read Anthem, and shrugged 'Shrugged' after that. Viewed the movie Fountain head, and some of her interviews. To me Ayn Rand seems more like a cult figure for the self-realization set.
Howard Roark bemoans the loss of an opportunity to dominate other men through the realization of his selfish ambitions...I'm still trying to figure out why he's the good guy!
Check out *The Virtue of Selfishness* by Rand. It's her best non-fiction work, IMHO, and will explain where she's coming from.
I would recommend to read her non-fiction books. As someone recommended already, The Virtue of Selfishness is great, I like Philosophy: who needs it; and if you are really serious about understanding her work, read Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.
I wonder what she would have made of Reagan and Thatcher.
You don't have to wonder what she thought about Reagan because when asked she said she doesn't think of him. Look up her views in more details.
Thanks guys. I should have looked it up but I assumed since she died in 1982 and since Reagan was elected in 1981 she would have had very little to say but I suppose I was wrong.
+Spencer Hyde I definitely don't think she had more disdain for the right than the left! She may have criticised some figures on the right but she was very critical of the whole left wing politics. She herself was quite clearly right wing on many political issues (as of course you know, e.g., economics, smaller gov., lower taxes, capitalism etc).
+Spencer Hyde ah there were some really good points there. Thanks. It makes sense.
perfect!
What a shock it’s a bunch of rich capitalists rather than workers.
LONG LIVE ISRAEL.
The way they talk about her, you'd think she was Jesus Christ.
Yeah, it's a bit of a cult. Ayn Rand's novels are simply a collection of essays suggesting that Americans need to be more selfish. There is some truth in selfishness as a virtue, but it's the one,and probably the only one virtue that needs no further reinforcement. Rand pretty much wastes her time strenuously pointing out something that is self-evident.
it's kind of like the way the Left talks about Alinsky. Except She is worth 100 Million Alinskys