I have a sister and brother-in-law that attended Stanford in the early '80s and worshipped at the altar of Ayn Rand. So many in Silicon Valley were spawned in this culture.
I have a sister and brother-in-law that attended Stanford in the early '80s and worshipped at the altar of Ayn Rand. So many in Silicon Valley were spawned in this culture.
There are no children in her created worlds. Plenty of sex. Her family’s pharmacy business was taken by the state when she was a teen. She had sisters in Russia she never connected with again after she left.
I have a sister and brother-in-law that attended Stanford in the early '80s and worshipped at the altar of Ayn Rand. So many in Silicon Valley were spawned in this culture.
JK Galbraith (FDR’s economist) described conservatives’ age-old search for “a moral justification of selfishness.”
Someone recently put it like this: You can’t tell me what to do. But I can tell you what to do.
She was a phony through and through. As she declared, it’s not who will let me, it’s who will stop me. The chump mantra, including all family
Correct.
Karen,
I read Atlas Shrugged in 1987. After finishing it I wondered where such a skewed picture could emanate from.
Ayn Rand was born in the Soviet Union. Her highly negative view of community was born from the warped view she got in the Soviet Union.
But, her extreme focus on the individual was just as sick and dysfunctional as Soviet Russia was.
There are no children in her created worlds. Plenty of sex. Her family’s pharmacy business was taken by the state when she was a teen. She had sisters in Russia she never connected with again after she left.
So very sad...