Sam Anderson argues on how "Ayn Rand never got into an argument she couldn’t win. Except, perhaps, with herself". His case against Ayn Rand, vindicates me for not reading Atlas Shrugged even though Fountain Head is one of my favorite book and I do admire Rand's philosophy. The logic sounds weird but it helps me from being biased and someday when I over come some shortcomings I will catch up on Atlas Shrugged. Anderson should have been less harsh on her personal life, which obviously influenced her but never a decent thing to bring in personal life to attack a person. If you want to refute a person believes, do it with facts who go against their believes. Rand wasn't an all out hypocrite but was driven by a unique philosophy with only some of it pragmatic and lots of it lacked the concept of empathy. In the end, she died alone with her cats, on the surface it sounds sad but probably that's what she would have wanted. It makes he speculate that she must be one of those people who had bottled up all the empathy and opened it up only to self.
Its stupid to put anyone on a demigod pedastal, when we have natural human imprefections. There are so many factors involved here like some theories can be incongrous, some lost in transaltion, some not pragmatic and the most important human short coming, the distrotion of the memory. The best option is prudent to filter the best information out of the anyone and in the process from history (without being a cognitive miser). Instead, if we want to use every past theories for a great quasi-intellectual debate with no specific destination expect for ones self satisfication on accomplishing a great oration.
"Few men can be satisified with their own private consciousness (without any social recognition)" - Adam Smith.
I think, Mr.Smith meant Women too.
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