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To be a Rand groupie is to flaunt your immaturity, your ignorance, your desperation to justify greed or your lack of international travel. It is, in other words, to admit your blindness to how so much of the world already lives, and to ignore what America would look like if “Fountainhead Shrugged” was seen as a public policy manual rather than what it really is: a dangerous farce.
Personally, almost everyone I've ever met who either still calls himself a Randian libertarian or once did, read the deviant woman's books as an adolescent. Some grew out of it, some didn't. But certainly Sirota and Saunders have a point: having the mind of a precocious spotty boy herself, Ayn Rand's books are tailor-made to appeal to precocious spotty boys. Like, oh, Paul Ryan.
Personally, almost everyone I've ever met who either still calls himself a Randian libertarian or once did, read the deviant woman's books as an adolescent. Some grew out of it, some didn't. But certainly Sirota and Saunders have a point: having the mind of a precocious spotty boy herself, Ayn Rand's books are tailor-made to appeal to precocious spotty boys. Like, oh, Paul Ryan.
Personally, almost everyone I've ever met who doesn't understand Rand's writings has been a statist and lacks the maturity to rationally evaluate new ideas.
Millions of us read her books as adults and have traveled internationally.
Personally, almost everyone I've ever met who either still calls himself a Randian libertarian or once did, read the deviant woman's books as an adolescent. Some grew out of it, some didn't. But certainly Sirota and Saunders have a point: having the mind of a precocious spotty boy herself, Ayn Rand's books are tailor-made to appeal to precocious spotty boys. Like, oh, Paul Ryan.
Naturally a liberal would not agree with her writings. It goes against what they believe.
Personally, almost everyone I've ever met who doesn't understand Rand's writings has been a statist and lacks the maturity to rationally evaluate new ideas.
Millions of us read her books as adults and have traveled internationally.
Post fail.
Most that attack Rand's writings have never actually read any of her books. The get their marching orders from a little blog post and run with it. Many seem to have a real problem making their own decisions and count on someone telling them what to say...and think.
Disagreement is one thing but this type of trivialization combined with ad hominem is an another entirely, it indicates immaturity.
Say what you will, Ayn Rand was extremely intelligent and is worth reading for anyone interested in political theory.
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