I got my copy in my early 30's. My father gave it to me, and I read it while on a lengthy vacation in Italy.
It was tripe, simplistic, and just utter bullshit. I am 99.9% certain in my teens, I would have just laughed at it, the writing is so awful. Then there is the 30+ page monolog that really goes nowhere.
I got my copy in my early 30's. My father gave it to me, and I read it while on a lengthy vacation in Italy.
It was tripe, simplistic, and just utter bullshit. I am 99.9% certain in my teens, I would have just laughed at it, the writing is so awful. Then there is the 30+ page monolog that really goes nowhere.
At the end of it, I was thinking of the "Maker" utopia, and then the video of Bush Senior trying to buy groceries, and I realized that these "Makers", these "Titans" of industry need their servants to cook, clean, and serve them. They are manifestly unfit to "go it alone" as they were trying to do.
I was taken by Ayn Rand as a teenager - including in my college years. This was the late 60s early 70s. We should not mistake Ayn Rand's prose for the genuine influence she had. Among her followers was Alan Greenspan. There was an objectivist newsletter that gained currency in NYC especially - in an era where small societies of all sorts existed with newsletters passed around in colleges.
I got my copy in my early 30's. My father gave it to me, and I read it while on a lengthy vacation in Italy.
It was tripe, simplistic, and just utter bullshit. I am 99.9% certain in my teens, I would have just laughed at it, the writing is so awful. Then there is the 30+ page monolog that really goes nowhere.
At the end of it, I was thinking of the "Maker" utopia, and then the video of Bush Senior trying to buy groceries, and I realized that these "Makers", these "Titans" of industry need their servants to cook, clean, and serve them. They are manifestly unfit to "go it alone" as they were trying to do.
Total, 100% bullshit
I was taken by Ayn Rand as a teenager - including in my college years. This was the late 60s early 70s. We should not mistake Ayn Rand's prose for the genuine influence she had. Among her followers was Alan Greenspan. There was an objectivist newsletter that gained currency in NYC especially - in an era where small societies of all sorts existed with newsletters passed around in colleges.
Bullshit to be sure. But so in the laffer curve.
Yes Rand was not exactly the most prolific author.