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Rand was a devout atheist, which set her against the movement’s Christian bent. She got off on the wrong foot with the movement’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr., when she introduced herself to him in her thick Russian accent, saying “You are too intelligent to believe in God!”
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She lived her personal life like an alley cat in heat.
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Rand rankled conservatives by living her life as an exemplary feminist, even as she denied it by calling herself a “male chauvinist.” She was the breadwinner throughout her lifelong marriage. The most sharply drawn hero in “Atlas” is the extraordinarily capable female railroad executive Dagny Taggart, who is set in contrast with her boss, her incompetent brother James. She’s the woman who deserves the man’s job but doesn’t have it; he’s the man who has the job but doesn’t deserve it.”
Yes, she was the ultimate feminist and the ultimate denial of that fact. Sarah Palin would like her ....
An author that is hugely flawed in reality is nothing new. Hemmingway comes to mind, as does Ruark.
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“Rand was strongly pro-choice, speaking out for abortion rights even before Roe v. Wade. In late middle age, she became enamored of a much younger man and made up her mind to have an affair with him, having duly informed her husband and the younger man's wife in advance.”
Yes, Gloria Steinen and the Demoncrats would LOVE Ayn Rand. She believed in abortion at any time for any reason.
She was also a “cougar” before that term came about. Being the arrogant control freak that she was, having a boy toy that was significantly younger should be no surprise. Nor should announcing her intentions to her husband and the wife of her boy toy to have the affair.
As I mentioned, she had the morals of an alley cat in heat.
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And Balph Eubanks (that's Balph!) anticipated Ron Schiller, although Ayn Rand didn't anticipate James O'Keefe.
The things where we agree with her (you know, the "Go Galt" stuff, the stuff about making more laws so as to make more criminals, smaller gov't in general) we already knew - we didn't need her to suddenly enlighten us as to them.
The places where she was off, she was WAY off.
I just, this week, finished “Atlas Shrugged”. It has some very prescient sections. I am starting on “The Return of the Primitive” today and will read “The Fountainhead” next.
I found that she injects herself into the book as Dagny Taggert and narcissisticly (izzat a word?) proposes that every man should fall in love with her because of her great mind. Inn that sense, she was a true feminist in the mold of “love me for my mind, not my body” clap-trap.
That said, Rand, herself believes the human mind to be source of all good and advancement(humanist belief). As others have said, she is not a friend of Christians.
So many people love to cast stones, as though their personal life is perfect. I have never met such a person as a perfect person. They think they have solid values but then they have all these “exceptions”.