Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism

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Ayn Rand's worldview is very cold, bleak and materialistic. Sorry if there are more ways to enjoy your life then making a whole lot of money. Hers is a world where hitchhikers, hippies and free spirits don't exist or are scorned. Where artists are second to industrialists, where the only purpose for creativity is to make money. Ironically we sort of live in an Ayn Rand world. Even people on the left feel that they would be happier if they just had a little more money. Money isn't the key to happiness. It never has been and never will be.


Also Goddamn is Atlas Shrugged a boring boring boring book. It's the same speech 20 times, getting longer and duller each time. I find her non-fiction a little better written, but sometimes with unintentioned irony. For example she wrote an essay called 'the art of smearing' which was a critique of Lyndon Johnson's smear campaign tactics. Although I agreed with her article, which was a good critique of what has now become common place campaign hysterics focused on non-issues, it's almost impossible to get through an Ayn Rand essay without her insulting and smearing someone.