Ras Tafari <[email protected]> wrote: > > who is ayn rand anyway? should i care? >
She's an author who wrote some fantasy books. For me the worlds and story lines she creates are mediocre, but the worst part is the writing is slow and massively tedious. If you enjoy listening to 2 people discuss boardroom politics for hours on end you'll love Atlas Shrugged. This book is about a chic who owns and runs a railroad, but she has problems making her company really great because of those meddling kids. or people. or something. Plus there's a guy who owns a steel company. And that goes on for like 800 pages. Exciting, huh?? As with all authors, she had her own Worldview that's baked into her books that has somehow become a "philosophy" called objectivism which - surprise! - is pretty simple. It can be essentially summed up as "be selfish, ignore others, do what feels good, and that makes the World a better place". This is oddly similar (in other words, not odd) to the beatnik / hippie philosophies. The selfish/feels good part is what applies to adolescents because that's how they all are. It applies to many grown-ups too, of course, depending on how much they've allowed themselves to mature. The books are also popular because they talk about business and government politics and some people - again, usually adolescents or those similar - feel they have something important to say there. If you'd like to judge for yourself go to any business bar, find a couple corporate middle managers, buy them a few (let's say 4) rounds of scotch, and ask them why they can't do great stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337874 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
