Life Musings

I thought the following posts from a discussion on Ayn Rand were amusing. The posters were talking about whether one should introduce a teenager to Rand's writings.

"I would say that high school through college is in fact the optimum time to read Rand, because that's the only time you'll enjoy it."

"Better warn this teenager that Ayn Rand did not own a dictionary, and thus, did not know what 'altriusm' and 'selfishness' meant."

"Oh, she knew, all right, she just felt entitled to redefine the terms. Like with Paul Johnson and the term 'Intellectuals.' (It means 'someone who is passionately interested in knowledge and ideas for their own sake,' Mr. Johnson; it does not mean 'someone to whom ideas are more important than people'; and if it did, Ayn Rand and Nietzsche and Russell Kirk would be better exemplars than Marx, Tolstoy or Brecht.)"