Declared in his famous speech: - The world will change when you are ready to pronounce this oath: I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine. John Galt, the fictitious character that he was in one of Ian Rand’s novel, must have been selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane, indeed, an economic moron.
I bet he could not afford to take his oath to his cook in the kitchen, to his butler in the room, to his chauffer in the automobile, to his secretary in the office, to his waiter in the restaurant. Not to mention to his pilot flying the plane.
As a matter of economic fact, John Galt is the type of a man that usually ends up as the CEO of top corporations – the wealthy criminals in the corporate world who, for the sake of profit, would even destroy this world, our world.
In the meantime, because of men like John Galt in charge of American corporations – America as a corporation is wealthy, but as a nation she is quite unhealthy. Poch Suzara
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"...if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind."
-[Ayn Rand, from Atlas Shrugged]
I'm sorry, did you not read the book at all? I hope you're not posting all this because it's something you heard second hand from someone who heard another second hand opinion from someone who didn't know what they were talking about.
If you're wise enough to come to an understanding of how stupid and insignificant religion is to your own life, I hope you can use the same patience and understanding when you read the book and what Ayn Rand was saying.
Please check the life and times of Alan Greenspan - a devoted follower of Ayn Rand's philosophy. As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Greenspan came to admit that he was wrong about a lot on American economic greed, stupidity, selfishness, and insanity otherwise more known as the American corporations that have not ceased destroying not only the United States but also the planet earth.
I highly recommend that you read these articles to further explain my point that you are mistaken about Ayn Rand. If anything, she like you pointed out all the ills of society and identified the problem right from the source:
Alan Greenspan vs. Ayn Rand and Freedom by Harry Binswager
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5353
The credit tsunami
http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/439-alan-greenspan-ayn-rand-and-the-credit-tsunami.html
Using Greenspan as a poster child for Objectivism is like using mail order brides to represent Filipinas. It's ignorant, circular, pointless logic.
I strongly urge you to read the books themselves, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. You will see that she is defending the very core of the same rights and principles that you only managed to poke at on every article you have posted. I don't know what you may really end up with when you finished reading them but at least you would know that she is for everything that you were defending.
May I suggest you read Bertrand Russell instead of wasting your time reading Ayn Rand - she was the tuti frutie in the subject of philosophy who pretended to know what in fact she never knew or never cared to find out for more as she, just like the millions of misguided fools - hold on to the impression that it is better to believe than it is to know. Science is the exact opposite. It is better to know than it is to believe. Ayn Rand believed that there is such a thing as knowledge that is certain. In fact, no such animal has as yet ever existed as all human knowledge is uncertain, inexact, and partial.
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