Today is Ayn Rand’s birthday. I wonder how she acted on her birthday. Was she extra selfish? Did she see it as a celebration of the self, or just another reminder that she’d one day die?
Her books and more accurately her ideology are still very much alive, but is that really a good thing? Her books took the political idea of limited government, pro-entrepreneurship, self-reliance, and turned them into an ideology. Atlas Shrugged reads more like a religious text parable than a work of fiction, someone full of anger and great trauma having a therapy session for 1000 pages.
Authors can use fiction as self-therapy and sometimes they create a beautiful story, but Ayn Rand is not one of those authors. She should have gotten therapy instead of writing Atlas Shrugged.
Feminism:
Ban the word bossy! Girls don't want to be leaders because they're afraid people won't like them!
Ayn Rand:
"She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought—and never worried about it again. "
