"Rand rejected all the lessons of Communism except Atheism. I can never figure out how she missed how interconnected it all was."
Pretty much sums up my perspective on her as well; I'd go so far to say she said a lot of smart things. I do find delicious irony in the fact that many of her diehard proponents have essentially deified her, and will viciously assail any person who casts even remotely negative aspersions her with all the vigor of a religious fanatic in the face of a heretic. Funny how an avowed athiest seems to be followed by so many "true believers".
It’s a bad mistake logically to look at one woman who made herself miserable for whatever reason,,,and to conclude that her ideas were flawed.
Like many geniuses, they fly high in their field, and fall badly short in another. Condemning her ideas because of her personal misery would be like “proving” that the ideas of the Church were untrue, by pointing to a molester priest. Neither case of a wreck of a persons life proves a thing about the validity of their beliefs.
“Funny how an avowed athiest seems to be followed by so many “true believers”.
A very strong point,, especially in the 60s, and when she was at her zenith.