Ayn Rand - figured only a matter of time till that hack appeared on this thread, after all she represents the pop-psychology de jure. A philosophy based on the denial of altruism. Now there is a philosophy well suited to a Manhattan studio and no where else. I'd be interested to see a non-altruistic philosophy work in the 3rd world which represents most of mankind. Then again there is mathematical game theory that refutes in scientific terms a non-altruistic way of life.
No sense going into the fact that her sexual politics were twisted, her writing sucks (She does like to hide behind the excuse that she isn't a naturalist - her writing still sucks.) Oh and lets see, her tall, angular man of action, the steel baron that knows his steel plant better than his workers. Pomp, I worked in heavy industry all my life and never, not once saw an upper management wonk, such as her man of action. They don't exist, nor have they ever existed. Oh, and then I wonder what she would think of hi-tech with the acres of cubicles filled with engineers working on projects far larger than she could have comprehended. Where is her man of action there?? Lastly, wonder what she would have thought of stock investors and traders - or wait that's right, she believed they were leeches living of the intellectual capital of others. So much for capitalism.
I've got Ayn Rand on my bookshelf right next to the Celestine Prophecy, another moron of a writer with a pop-philosophy. Rich |
