I just, this week, finished “Atlas Shrugged”. It has some very prescient sections. I am starting on “The Return of the Primitive” today and will read “The Fountainhead” next.
I found that she injects herself into the book as Dagny Taggert and narcissisticly (izzat a word?) proposes that every man should fall in love with her because of her great mind. Inn that sense, she was a true feminist in the mold of “love me for my mind, not my body” clap-trap.
That said, Rand, herself believes the human mind to be source of all good and advancement(humanist belief). As others have said, she is not a friend of Christians.
And if you've ever seen a picture of her, you'll understand why.
Yes, she was VERY narcissistic and very SELF CENTERED. Her mind was a failure but she thought the opposite. I disagree on the “love me for my mind and not my body”. She didn't care who she bedded. Decent men avoided her and it wasn't because she was unattractive. It was because she was COLD wrapped up in herself. This is another reason why she was what we call today a “cougar”. She had to have her young boy toy and ANNOUNCE it to her husband and the wife. A young guy was someone she could CONTROL. Her inner circle eventually abandoned her later in her miserable life.
“That said, Rand, herself believes the human mind to be source of all good and advancement(humanist belief). As others have said, she is not a friend of Christians.”
Yes, she was the humanist. She only believed in herself and HER views. It's interesting, most people that flee a Communist country and in her situation, Russia, FIND GOD. Ayn went out of her way to reject Him and replace Him with money and her humanistic ideals. She was a failure in life.