Funniest thing I've read in a while.

Daniel Berry welcome aboard

Just finished Fountainhead yesterday and bought another one of her books. Her ideas changed my life honestly, and helped me be a happier and better person.

The word 'selfish' has deliberately been misconstrued and made into a provocative term. Society wants you to be a 'team player'. In other words, not thinking for yourself. Selfish is synonymous with individuality. It's the individual pursuing ones own interests. That's all. It's nothing to do with walking over others to meet your ends. This is what most people can't get their minds past. Rand's work is about the individual using his or her mind, volitionally, since we are all born with rational minds and must figure things out for ourselves. This is what separates us from the plant and animal kingdom, yet we are encouraged not to use our minds but to live our lives following others who may or may not have this thing called life figured out. The irony about those who bash Rand's work is that they have clearly abnegated their minds, themselves, in that they have clearly not looked into her work to figure it out for themselves but have took on a collectivised opinion of it.

how did it go?

OppressedAnarchist true good advice

I agree 99.99%

Buttercup58 he said “blindly”

@Buttercup58 so, "numbnuts", what do you have to say about them?

There are plenty of critics, professional and amateur, that are previously experienced in her work. It is precisely that experience which guides them to opine. Perhaps you are the one that needs to be more objective. Rand should have called the book The Ugly Virtue of Selfish Arrogance

Accountability? To who? The human race? I thought this was the moral justification of ego and self aggrandizement at the expense or at least indifference to other people's needs or wants.

ephidel285 She was captivated by Dostoevsky as so many of us, that I bet was her influence with the redemptive ending..

He was 78.

@@sandythomas8911 He still looks good!

Yep! Attractive dude.

Have you seen how the most prominent proponents of organised objectivism (aka obleftivists) are biological dead-end immigrants? Why do we call them obleftivists? What differentiates rightists with leftists is not the difference about capitalism vs socialism, it’s not even about individuality vs collectivism. It is not even a view of hierarchy vs equality. In fact the difference is even deeper. It is a world view based on socio biology vs a worldview based on the blank slate view of human nature. If you just look and analyse these obleftivists you will see why they say what they say. These are not biologically gifted people. They are not tall, handsome and muscular. They may have a speech impediment and their accents in their new countries separate them negatively from the natives. Also they do not have very high IQ levels and thus envy the people above them that do. You see being tribalist is in our DNA, and these obleftivists do not wish to be discriminated against, since this discrimination does affect their quality of life i.e. by not getting the good job or the promotion, or the man/woman they desire. These obleftivists wish to attack the natural socio-biological differences in humans in order to benefit their life (mostly benefit financially). Like all leftists they attack the naturally gifted, the naturally charismatic, the ones that come from a privileged background, the ones that were born smarter (higher IQ) and/or more handsome/beautiful. They attack the Howard Roarks of this world. Their statement is simple. Free will man!!! If you just think it you can become anything you want. This is the fundamental message that obleftivism is selling to all its naïve victims. Scientology without the aliens. The truth about humans and all DNA based life is that we are simply NOT individuals. We are living organisms that stretch across countless generations. Our ancestors live through us and we will live through our descendants. The accomplishments of your ancestors are your accomplishments. Everything they could do, you can do. Everything you can do, your descendants can do. You were not born from a vacuum, you were not born from individuals. You are the product of a tribe’s gene pool, an entire history’s worth of choices mashed together and separated wheat from chaff to create the algorithm of preferences in your brain, the brain that your DNA coded for, including your case specific preference for sacrificing the herd for your own wellbeing. With the right information/situation at your disposal you would sacrifice yourself for the herd, be it in form of pushing your own son out of the way of a speeding car and getting run over, or working a lifetime so that your children can live better lives. You are not alone. You came from something much bigger than yourself, and you have only got one people left in the world that can reciprocate your good will if you choose to direct it outward. Remember where you came from, what you are, and where you are going. Naturally a woman who chose to die childless, who chose to remove herself from her people and her history, would not be able to educate others on the truth. This explains why her heir declared her philosophy to be closed. He did it in order to insulate it from the truth, in order to cover his own failings in life and in order to attract similar failures. We shall call these people with one simple word. Obleftivists!!!

Possibly a (minor?) stroke and also onset of Parkinson's

+luke hall Kevin MacLeod - Tango de Manzana

These days the only thing that makes an individual important is her or her victim status.

which media??? zionist satanist owned media..... hohohoh.

Yeah but he might not agree, his forehead doesn’t move.

The "media." It isn't a monolith run by an alien brain. Anyone who dumps all his or her complaints on the "media" isn't doing much thinking. Also, my time spent caring about what Ayn Rand said or did is currently zero.

This resonated with me massively

Ayn Rand was approximately as sexually attractive as Jabba the Hutt.

And what a relationship. He was a married man at the time and Rand just figured his wife shouldn't mind it. When he ended the relationship Rand tried to ruin him and succeeded fairly well. Delightful woman.

Anthony Badessa I, too, found myself quietly wishing that he had run out the door that moment and got themselves some. But, alas, it was not meant to be.

He was very ill at this point. Happy now?

Yeah...we need a moral philosophy telling people to be more selfish. We don't have enough immoral and amoral narcissistic greed. We need someone to preach the message of not giving a flick about other people.

@@drmodestoesqwhat we need more of is a bunch of liberals who are so arrogant that they think they know what’s best for everyone else and they think so little of their fellow humans that they think they are incapable of knowing what’s best for themselves and are incapable of making decisions for themselves. And don’t kid yourself, people with the mindset I pointed out are some of the most selfish self centered arrogant individuals you will ever meet who only pretend to care for others to feed their own egos.

@@drmodestoesqYou have a fundamental misunderstanding of her philosophy

Why does no one complain about the evils that contaminated the last years of Rand's life? Medicare and Social Security benefits!!! Why do none of you see that by allowing her to sell her integrity for a few doctor visits and living expenses, the nanny state spoiled the pure virtue of her selfishness? A true devotee would be angry with the government for tempting her to live like the kind of useless parasites she hated. What a tragic injustice that they stole her right to die free and made her get medical care from doctors who insulted her by correlating her cough with a harmless capitalist habit like cigarettes.😕

Monchi2006 they did. It made them lovers

To what are you referring?

". I said nothing "rude" to him and yet he removed my comments from his thread instead of addressing them. Notice how he doesn't want YOU to know what I actually wrote. Does those sound like someone who cares about the strength of his own arguments, or someone who's evading reality?" I've noticed that Rick Deckard has removed a number of comments, including some of mine. I agree with you 100 percent, if rick had confidence in his arguments it's doubtful he would have done so.

Vincent Adultman No he doesn't. Exactly the opposite. What book were you reading?

lol wut?

That's a fact. She can't be denied. Ever!

nah .... Fare thee well.

They used to bang.

“a Rand critic that didn’t misconceive”? She denied the existence of her Maker. No misconception there …

I received a dose of mental heaviness and limitation - me heart hinted - at going to meditate and I immediately felt lighter and this continues yet. Fare thee well.

One has to pay into Social Security. She had no choice. It was her money. She was just taking back a part of what she rightly earned.

@@cherylannegroth5164 It is socialistic by nature. America, holy land of Capitalism, introduced her into social security system and Ayn Rand adapted herself. Post Lyhman brothers crisis, the USA is more worried about the financial security of corporates. Ayn Rand must have written Capital Shrugged.