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John Norris Brown of the Appalachian Scribe has a very nice post up about how Ayn Rand and her thoughts on individualism have developed a cult like following. Like John Norris I find Rand’s thought on individualism to be good, but lacking morals and values. Rand’s followers though seem to respond to others that do not “properly respect” their views with a religious vigor. JNB’s post here

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[...] the cult of Ms Rand. (HT: Swap Blog). For my part, anybody who has ever read (suffered through?) Atlas Shrugged should also read Matt [...]

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[...] the cult of Ms Rand. (HT: Swap Blog). For my part, anybody who has ever read (suffered through) Atlas Shrugged should also read Matt [...]

Pingback by Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Thursday Highlights — 3/13/2008 @ 9:06 am
As a teenager I was a Randite–literally read every single book she ever wrote. Even at the time, as an agnostic, I had trouble swallowing Rand’s militant atheism.

Comment by Milton Stanley — 3/17/2008 @ 10:39 am