zodiac16 Dec 2005

Yes, of course. No one here has suggested Ayn Rand wasn't a good writer, wasn't intelligent, wasn't writing from her perspective or for her time, et cetera, et cetera. No one has even said Ayn Rand was simplistic. If you think anyone has said these things, please, please go back and read our messages.

At the risk of putting this conversation even further off track, I'll tell you what I don't like about Ayn Rand's ideas: Her books often overwhelmingly measure success (in life, as an egoist, etc) by characters' contributions to INDUSTRY only. I'm not ignoring her books' positively portrayed writers, artists, and even regular businesspeople, but I wish they'd gotten more play (not to mention, come off better in the end). Personally, I consider myself living a satisfactorily Randian life under the radar with my wife and my normal job, without having to measure my greatness by the size of my skyscraper.