thesummerqueen Wrote:I don't know much about her personally other than what's on Wiki, but I don't know why people had such a problem with her books. I actually rather enjoyed Atlas Shrugged and Anthem and I thought Fountainhead was a pretty good movie. Then again...I read them/watched them as works of fiction, which is what they're listed as. I didn't take them any more seriously than I did Lord of the Rings. Unlike the motherfucker who paid for a billboard along the side of highway 85 to say "Who is John Galt?" just this summer.
I don't care much for her political philosophy, and think many of the people at the ARI are a bit wacky, but I like her stories too. I appreciate the basic message of her philosophy for men to appreciate their own value, and not succumb to the masses, and to also be rational. I think she took it to extremes largely because of her roots in soviet Russia. I think her polarizing way of writing and dismissal of other philosophers, and her outright attacks on Kant which she took too far, really ticks people off. Plus, her books have, to quote Lisa Simpson, become the "bible of right wing losers".
