A curious thing about Ayn Rand:
I knew nearly nothing about her, until I heard her name on a podcast some of you may know https://serialpodcast.org/2015/12/season-two-welcome. The tale of a US soldier, in Afghanistan, who walked out of his base and got captured by the Taliban, remained in captivity for some 5 years until he got exchanged by some 3 prisoners. I was listening to this podcast, and, at some point, they mention that the soldier had been influenced by Ayn's ideas.
In parallel, I was reading the book "The Believing Brain", by Michael Shermer, where Michael also claims to have been influenced by Ayn's ideas.
Both these events (me listening to the bit about the soldier's background and reading about Michael's own background) happened, at most, 2 days apart. In both cases, I was treated with a synopsis of Ayn's philosophy and that was my intro to Ayn and it gave me everything I want to know about her....
I immediately saw that it's not for me... but that's to be expected, I guess, as I'm from a socialist European country, the P in PIGS.
I knew nearly nothing about her, until I heard her name on a podcast some of you may know https://serialpodcast.org/2015/12/season-two-welcome. The tale of a US soldier, in Afghanistan, who walked out of his base and got captured by the Taliban, remained in captivity for some 5 years until he got exchanged by some 3 prisoners. I was listening to this podcast, and, at some point, they mention that the soldier had been influenced by Ayn's ideas.
In parallel, I was reading the book "The Believing Brain", by Michael Shermer, where Michael also claims to have been influenced by Ayn's ideas.
Both these events (me listening to the bit about the soldier's background and reading about Michael's own background) happened, at most, 2 days apart. In both cases, I was treated with a synopsis of Ayn's philosophy and that was my intro to Ayn and it gave me everything I want to know about her....
I immediately saw that it's not for me... but that's to be expected, I guess, as I'm from a socialist European country, the P in PIGS.
