I'm curiose that someone who can come up with the line above is incapable of a better Topic Title than "Ayn Rand sucks ass".

In the book, there is a certain irony in Ayn Rand's philosophy in that she held "reason", which she defined roughly as "an objective view of reality," as the ultimate goal of life, and yet psychological studies prove time and again that people, when viewed objectively and scientifically, are fundamentally irrational. Animal training, conditioning with rewards and punishments, is a far more accurate model and effective guide to molding human behavior than any of her nonsense.

Rather than providing a guide for improvement, Rand's philosophy has served mostly as (ironically) a rationalization for discrimination ("if they're poor it's their own fault", "black people are incapable of the same kind of civilized reason that white people are", "women can't be trusted with anything important because they're too emotional", etc.), and consequently a blinder to the inadequacies of capitalism and free markets that arise from humanity's basically impulse-driven nature.

In conclusion, Ayn Rand is a nothing more than just a proto-NeoConservative who thinks that human superiority is above charity. You suck, Ayn Rand.

I can agree that Rand's novels are terrible by the traditional standards of literature. I can also agree that as a philosophy, Objectivism isn't terribly sound either. (Going into further depth on either of these points would require more energy than I'm willing to muster at the moment.)

Oh, you guys have fell for this western media parrot.

He basically views anything from the west as superior and parrots it as his own. He's everything non mainstream.

http://digg.com/celebrity/A_1964_Interview...layboy_Magazine

Search for halcyonic. I doubt it's him, his history has a lot of "Oh, Jesus Christ."