On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:

> 3. I don't know that Rand's book had much influence. Mostly, people
> who wanted to hear their message heard that message. For example, they
> are very appealing to teenage boys (and to a lesser extent girls) who
> want to be independent of their parents and to prove their
> individuality (partly by hanging out with a bunch that dresses alike
> and thinks alike).
>

i still get lots of students, especially but not only women, who come to
college having read the fountainhead and/or atlas shrugged and being
dyed-in-the-wool randian anti-communist capitalist individualists. on the
one hand, ugh. on the other, it's kind of a start.
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