* Anthem - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_%28novella%29 -- free audiobook and ebook at your fingertips
Ayn Rand was brilliant, but a complete nut job. She, more than anyone is responsible for influencing Alan Greenspan, the father of the devastated American and world economy.
Quote from: winstonw on March 09, 2010, 07:56:48 PM* Anthem - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_%28novella%29 -- free audiobook and ebook at your fingertipsAnthem was a good one, pretty short too. You could probably read it in one evening. Quote from: QwazyWabbit on March 09, 2010, 08:56:14 PMAyn Rand was brilliant, but a complete nut job. She, more than anyone is responsible for influencing Alan Greenspan, the father of the devastated American and world economy. So by proxy, Ayn Rand is responsible for the recession? YOU sound like the nutjob to me. Her philosophy was anti-altruism/anti-collectivism, which would definitely be dead set against concepts like welfare and other social programs to the undeserving and extending credit to those who do not qualify, which is the root cause of the recession. If you want to hate Alan Greenspan, go for it, but blaming Ayn Rand for Alan Greenspan and/or the recession is like blaming the video game Doom and iD Software for the Columbine High School massacre. What a fucking leap.
I recently finished Flowers for Algenon,a classic sci fi novel about a retarded adult who gain super intelligence from an experimental operation,and just recently discovered it was made into a movie called Charly. The star of it,Cliff Robertson ,passed away just recently and it won him an Oscar. So here's the link to the movie on YouTube...definately worth seeing...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AeSf5QDEmQ