Cheers!
Wow, man, like this is really cool!
Well, grey_whiskers, I suspect your whiskers are not quite as grey as mine. (I'm not very good at the jargon of the 60's drug scene, I'm afraid.) I've posted this speech of Rand's, and commented on it, many times. It is really timeless, and only just an introduction to her larger work, Philosophy, Who Needs It.
I am not an Objectivist, especially not one of the current day claimants of that ideology (which it is to those who think Objectivism is a movement, not a philosophy) who are mostly subjectivists and hedonists--totally opposite of all Rand thought and taught.
This is the age of corruption of everything, springing from the dominance of postmodernism and cultural Marxism, so nothing is surprising, if still very discouraging.
Thanks for the ping.
Hank