Comments on: Ayn Rand 101

By: Alwin

Alwin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:49:54 +0000

A man born into the street-sweeper caste runs away, hides in the sewer and invents the atom bomb. That's about the size of this bilge. Ayn Rand is supermarket tabloid philosophy. ATLAS SHRUGGED = every man for himself and devil take the hindmost. Life in a jungle rather than in a community. “Am I my brother's keeper?” If you want to know what philosophy is, why not take on something serious like Plato or Wittgenstein. Rand wasn't a philosopher; she was an ideologue, a pop-philosopher. It is deeply disturbing that someone as powerful as Alan Greenspan could be the disciple of this pulp.

By: Alwin

Alwin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:49:54 +0000

By: HerbSewell

HerbSewell — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:55:13 +0000

” Because, in the end, you must think for yourself, and you can't evade that work.”
That's exactly what Ayn Rand advocates above all: the ability for one to think for oneself.

By: HerbSewell

HerbSewell — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:54:05 +0000

Or the intellectually competeant.

By: HerbSewell

HerbSewell — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:53:19 +0000

Yes, because we all know what horrible things the Industrial Revolution, the product of the corporate man, as done to us to a society.

By: HerbSewell

HerbSewell — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:52:07 +0000

you fail, please try again ^_^

By: HerbSewell

HerbSewell — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:51:29 +0000

Yes, he is. Again, this is a parody, but this ignorance of the true beliefs of Ayn Rand really doesn't do her justice.

By: HerbSewell

HerbSewell — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:47:22 +0000

The same way Space Balls differs from Star Wars.

By: richard47

richard47 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:03:32 +0000

Oh, come on, Ayn Rand people — of whom I have been and am one. If we can't take a little humor, we're in bad shape. We are, in fact, closed to that angle of the truth. Ayn Rand was the first philosopher I read, the first who taught me about objectivity and reason, the first who grounded me in a desire for scientific accuracy. She is worth studying, understanding, and applying. A thorough and ongoing understanding of her fiction and philosophy and her life would still be beneficial, I believe, as beneficial as the study of any other philosophy or philosopher, even contradictory ones. Why? Because, in the end, you must think for yourself, and you can't evade that work. Meantime, the syllabus is hilarious.

By: bluriley

bluriley — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:39:27 +0000

Accurate to Rand's dedication to self interest.