1. On the surface, it's false -- or else the blind cannot create. Rand has few good words for people who are not ISO humans. This is not as clear in Atlas Shrug

1. On the surface, it's false -- or else the blind cannot create. Rand has few good words for people who are not ISO humans. This is not as clear in Atlas Shrugged, but is more evident in her non-fiction, and I disapprove of it. A quick Google search brings up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJoaWa-kWQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJoaWa-kWQ 2. Quoting Rand signals, if not acceptance, approval for her general thesis. It is a good thesis in so far as it romanticizes (in her technical sense of the word, see _The Romantic Manifesto_) the ability of humans to produce great things. It is a bad thesis in so far as it blames those who cannot produce great things -- for any reason -- for "enslaving" those of the previous class.