Ayn Rand has a philosophy?!?! (BTW, I'm being sarcastic)

[BarackTheVote]

Okay... I've only read "Anthem" by her because I was on a dystopian kick and it was short, and I figured, hey, why dive right into something like "Atlas Shrugged" and hate it when I can try a small pink-plastic taste test first. I finished "Anthem" so disgusted utterly disgusted with her egoistic, ignorant, and downright evil PHILOSOPHY--a philosophy that, by the way, permeated every page of that piece of guttertrash--that I refused to pick up anything else by her again. And "Anthem" is only 72 pages. Does she really do such a great job of hiding her "atheistic philosophy" (which, atheism is the absolute LEAST worrying thing to me about Objectivism) that Paul Ryan could miss it? Somehow I kinda doubt it.

[unapatriciated]

1. Me me me me

[HooptieWagon]

2. Only if you redefine a personality disorder as a "philosophy".

Its rather evident she's a narcisist.

[Quantess]

3. She is not a typical atheist.

She was a satanist, except she didn't actually worship Satan. But the philosophies (Ayn Rand's POV and Satanism) are strikingly similar, to my novice estimation.

[HereSince1628]

4. A successfully selfish life begins with an excess of chorionic gonadotropin

and the implantation and development of an overly (dare we think parasitic?) large placenta, and proceeds to sucklilng your mother's health into ruin, at which time you turn the insatiable appetite to robbing fittness supply from kin and associates.

At the end your success will be objectively measured by your position in the socio-economic ponzi scheme of life which gives much lesser value to the stack of bodies upon whose shoulders you have taken the personal initiative to climb to your majestic highness.