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In reply to the discussion: This One Weird Pic DESTROYS Ayn Rand [View all]gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... because her malignant, bumper-sticker "philosophy" validates their own pathological selfishness, or what that evil monster, Henry Kissinger, called "Enlightened Self-interest." Rand HATED altruism, and railed against it every time she opened her mouth. Between wracking smoker's coughs, of course.
I read a lot of her third-rate crap back in the sixties. My bosses strongly suggested that it was in my best interest to do so. I slogged through her two doorstops that might as well have been one cinder block of a book called "Fountainhead Shrugged," and a lot of her early essays. The one in which she expressed admiration for a man who raped, murdered, and dismembered a 12-year-old girl is especially telling. But the publication of "The Virtue of Selfishness" lit the flame of my undying contempt for the woman.
Alisa Rosenbaum (her real name) was a frothing-at-the-mouth sociopath and a despicable pig of a woman.
Oh, and when she died, she was collecting Social Security.