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17. Being fourth generation progeny of critical thinking literary snobs, I was unable to make it through Atlas Shrugged. Unfortunately, as it is difficult for
by menloparkbum 18y ago
17. Being fourth generation progeny of critical thinking literary snobs, I was unable to make it through Atlas Shrugged.
Unfortunately, as it is difficult for Hollywood newcomers to avoid Scientology recruiters, a college freshman finds it difficult to avoid the Objectivist Club recruiters.
Thus, later in the same year I had a brush with Rand again. I tried reading "The Romantic Manifesto" and found it unintentionally hilarious, in the same way Sarah Palin's press conferences are hilarious.
- gunderson 18y agoYou have too much taste for Atlas Shrugged because of your illustrious bloodline? If reading Atlas Shrugged is too much work for your taste, then I think the actual ideas contained in it would surely be quite distasteful to you, but I guess the world will never know.
- menloparkbum 18y agoYes, I do have too much taste to work through Atlas Shrugged, and I attribute this at least partially to good parenting. It always saddens me to read about good minds softened by the writings of Ayn Rand, and I shudder to think about the sorts of childhoods they must have had.
- gunderson 18y agoWere you forced by your parents to donate your allowance to the homeless amid tears that eventually turned into self-congratulation? What sort of "good parenting" created such a visceral aversion to Rand's philosophy? Or is it her prose style that you object to?