Has anyone here read this book? I'd like to see what you all thought about it, although I honestly doubt a lot of you had (some of you are just too young to have read it, but I might be wrong). So, whatcha think?
While it's attractive to think that every man (and i say MAN because Ayn Rand is very misogynistic for a female writer) is capable of achieving their own desires and creating their own lot, Objectivism is completely naive. It barely acknowledges conditions and factors that are beyond are control, if it does at all. The characters in Ayn Rand's books are like super-constructs who fit into perfect roles. Her heroes have no flaws and her villains are laughably paper-thin. They are all unbelievable and totally unrealistic to real life. I have not met a person who followed Objectivism who did not basically use it as an excuse to treat people who were "worse than them" with disrespect and disdain. It's a pipedream philosophy that adolescents and immature people use to justify selfishness.
