“ — There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Kung Fu Monkey: Ephemera 2009 (7)
Amen. I hate Rand. Her philosophy spurns the very means by which she fled the USSR. Her life proves her brand of proselytizing as hypocritical.
8 months ago