Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism

[Pat Mustard]

Objectivism, I think, was Ayn Rand's rallying cry against Communism.  Her family suffered terribly after Red October, they went from being bourgeois to starving practically overnight.  It's easy to imagine how, in the face of collectivism and privation and bread lines, that someone as bright as the young Rand (a self-described hero worshipper) constructed this grand, noble code of ethics about being one's best self and disregarding the needs of others in favour of one's own goals.

None of that excuses the more repellent aspects of objectivism, of course, but it does put it in context.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

Oh yeah, I can definitely imagining somebody immoral reacting as Rand did, and inventing a philosophy of "fuck you, I got mine" when other immoral people shat all over her.