[logician2u]

You need to understand, that is exactly he way Ayn Rand wrote her novels. She created heroes and villains, and if they seem like comic-book characters by today's standards, you have to put it in the context of the 1950s when things were much more uncertain and subtlety was a 14-lb sledgehammer.

Forget the drama, the pseudo-sci-fi and the love stories intertwined throughout the book and concentrate, if you can, on the message.

John Galt put this radical notion forward, and too many critics (Chanbers included) choose to ignore it:

"I swear--by my life and my love of it--that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

(I think he meant women, too.)

If ever there was an anti-collectivist credo, this is it.

[Storm Orphan]

"I swear--by my life and my love of it--that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine."

It cannot be said enough.

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