Ayn Rand is many things to many people, but can be universally recognized as a daring and pioneering thinker.
Few names can stir passions, elicit anger, cause smiles, and summon deep interest more than Ayn Rand. Born in 1905, into a wealthy family of Jewish merchants in St. Petersburg, Russia, she grew up as the Tsar's harsh, sterile rule succumbed to the grueling, hardscrabble tenure of Vladimir Lenin. After communism became the law of the land, Rand's family lost everything and she was left with little future. In college, Rand read the works of Aristotle and other great Western thinkers. Her scholarship developed in her a burning desire to escape from the Soviet Union. Eventually she got her chance.…
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26 - Igor
Anyone who wants to read didactic moral stories would do better than Rand by reading Tolstoi, who's a better writer and a better moralizer. I recommend the short stories rather than War And Peace (the entire bite of which is reserved for the epilogues). In fact, Tolstoi's "How Much Land Does A Man Need?" and "Yardstick, The Story Of A Horse" are far more instructional than Rand. Also, "The Kreutzer Sonata". I recommend the translations of B. G. Guerney.
27 - Clavos
Poor Kool-Aid. Thanks to one batshit insane preacher, its reputation is ruined forever.
Ah well, perhaps someday humanity will take Shakespeare's idea about lawyers and apply it to the preachers.
The world will certainly be a better place afterwards.
28 - Michael M
Glenn: "But Rand was a sociopath" ... and ... " how far down the path to lunacy she really was."
Dictionary: Slur: make damaging or insulting insinuations or allegations about
Content in Rand's oeuvre supporting allegations: Zilch
29 - Glenn Contrarian
Michael -
When one preaches what is essentially sociopathy and makes excuses for the evil committed by another sociopath, that's sufficiently far down the path to lunacy for me to call it such.
And as I recall, you said my post was 'flush' with slurs - which is strange since even if you were right (you're not) that I posted a slur, you were only able to show one. Gee, you wouldn't be resorting to hyperbole too, now would you?
Michael, you really need to learn the value of objectivity...because you're not showing it.