I'm not a big Ayn Rand fan one way or the other. Here, the NYT talks about Rand, who would have surely scared the living shit out of anyone who has ever worked there: http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/60120/. I'd like to see Ayn come back to life and have a sit down with the editorial staff at the Times. She'd be the only one to walk out of the room with their testicles still intact.
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I read Atlas Shrugged in high school, then again a few years ago. It has not aged particularly well. Or, maybe I haven't aged particularly well.
I mostly agree with the capitalistic, self-accountable, intelligent model. I think she over-dramatizes in attempt to prove her all-or-nothing point. This results in a style of prose that is opposite to the efficient and noble ideal to which she adheres.
She is an Edward Everett. Her theories deserve articulation by an Abraham Lincoln.
Hodie: I feel strangely sexually attracted to Ayn Rand. Does that mean I'm a libertarian?
No. You are an egoist.
"Rather than considering sexual desire a debasing animal instinct, Rand portrays it as the highest celebration of human values, a physical response to intellectual and spiritual values that gives concrete expression to what could otherwise be experienced only in the abstract."
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