[BfloGuy]

This is all old outdated baloney. The US is not an island.

Yet another poster who betrays the fact that he's never read the book. Francisco D'Anconia anyone?

These Rand threads are always a hoot. Her influence is proven by the number of people who complain about her books and her philosophy but know next to nothing about it.

[Earthdweller]

I did read the book and if you think someone who tells you to go sit on your marbles on a mountainside is a Saint because they can spout off some really cool sounding old business jargon, well then, more power to you or not.

I thought her book was like reading a capitalist fantasy book, complete with unreal open ending. It's actually a hoot that so many people can be so gullible as long as their ego can be massaged into thinking they are not replaceable.

[higgmeister]

Yet another poster who betrays the fact that he's never read the book. Francisco D'Anconia anyone?

These Rand threads are always a hoot. Her influence is proven by the number of people who complain about her books and her philosophy but know next to nothing about it.

Isn't that the truth!

For once I wish someone would read her work!

Her novella "Anthem" is a better indictment against Collectivism and its ultimate destruction of the human spirit. It is mindful to me of "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benét.

[Perfesser]

We have a winner!!!!

These Ayn Rand threads always seem to remind me of the Blind men and the Elephant. I suppose the anonymity of the internet emboldens some to freely expose their ignorance without fear of confrontation of the facts. Ayn Rand was a flawed human being in some ways and brilliant in others. When you read Atlas Shrugged and then turn to today’s news media you see what an astute prophet she was.

So, all you holier-than-thou-know-it-alls should go learn a little about the subject before you embarrass yourselves further.