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Ayn Rand and the Untermensch Morlocks: Ban Both Carbon and Sun, chant the Ubermensch Socialist Eloi of Today
She denounced Nathaniel, and broke completely with him.
Barbara divorced him.
Rand’s emotional crash, because of the change in feelings toward her by Nathaniel, was totally at odds with her philosophy.
She always doggedly championed an individualism that would never let happiness depend on the behavior of someone else.
She and some of her protégés were known for purging members of her salon who deviated from her pronouncements.
The purged continue to spread her thought, albeit in slightly different paths.
Both Brandens wrote respectful biographies of Rand.
Ayn continued with Frank for a 50-year marriage.
He died in 1979; she, in 1982.
Most of her family, back in Leningrad, died during the World War II siege.
RAND’S PHILOSOPHY
Now, to her philosophy.
Ayn Rand aspired to write a great novel about noble humanity.
She thought that to write that novel, she would have to think through a comprehensive, coherent philosophy, as the grounding.
Her philosophy is called Objectivism.
Its formalization and promulgation came only after Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957.
In 1962, Ayn Rand wrote a summary of that philosophy, part of which says:
My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:
Reality exists as an objective absolute — facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes, or fears.
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November 8th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Aloha Rich,
Just found your site after reading Rick’s Pick’s. Nice to know there is someone else in Hawaii who ‘gets it’. I have to be careful opening my mouth in public due to the plethora of government workers about and even friends and family don’t really ‘get it’ and think I’m some sort of kook. But, lucky we live in Paradise eh? Do you surf?
James
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Yes.