Ayn Rand is everywhere!

[juldea]

So last week I saw a guy on the silver line reading Atlas Shrugged (and promptly got in a conversation with him), and this morning a girl on the orange line was reading The Fountainhead. Is it something in the air?

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[(Anonymous)]

objectivism is a funny thing. it's probably only funny because i don't know everything about it, but i have heard about it occasionally.

so, one thing i've been wondering: i get the impression that it is a view which is possibly compatible with various kinds of racism, but which does not itself prescribe one, and which is also compatible with an absense of racism. this is because i saw someone speak to an o.c. who is the closest thing i've ever seen to a hitlerian, as even nazis tend to not be loud, declarative racists (since doing so is now deprecated after the example of hitler). well, the fact that he spoke there, and the fact that he wasn't removed immediately. or even murmured against.

jacob

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well, being wholly unfamiliar, my question would be: What kind of things was the speaker specifically saying? I'm possibly not clearly reading your comment...

Nothing Rand-written that I have read says anything specific about race. Then again, there are no races besides caucasian mentioned in the books anywhere. The "People's State of China" and some from Africa are mentioned, but no actual people...