I’m not a huge fan of all Randian ideas but the interpretation Sanford takes is really ridiculous. I like her proclamation of the importance of individuals and creative expression, and I like her ideas on God [Other ideas ... not so much]. Sanford’s perversion of Randian ideology – whether you like it or not – is that he dismisses her lack of religion.

Ayn Rand disliked the idea of a supreme being, and that is a brilliant and HUGE part of her philosophy. That’s part of why she didn’t like that political leaders always tried to use religion to sway public opinion.

Basically, she would not have been a Sanford fan. At all.

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A woman who models herself after Ayn Rand is showing herself to be hollow to the core, narcissistic in the extreme, and obsessed with penis-envy.

Both male and female versions of Ayn-Rand fans exemplify failed human beings with zip imagination and zero creativity.

Thank you so *very* much for slamming Ayn Rand and all her bleepin’ fans.

I wasn’t yet the incorrigible leftie vegetarian I now am, but I knew enough to know I didn’t much like her – but decided I might as well give it a try to see if I could get the money, as a kind of personal test. I wrote a few pages about individualism and creativity and bla bla bla in a couple of hours one lazy afternoon…and…I got one of their prizes and a few hundred bucks.

Then, to my mortification, I found that they put the winners’ names on their website. So they got an email from me saying actually, I don’t like Objectivism, and could they please take me down? (Thank goodness, they did).

Now that I am older and wiser I dislike her even more, but at least I put that money to good use!

And for all those who made it this far: there was an article about her in NYmag recently too that I thought was pretty interesting: http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/60120/.

Put the two together and I hear the Horsemen approaching.

/nuff said

ironically, she got me into philosophy (i’ve read ALL of her work including her lexicon, don’t waste your time, trust me)… it’s 4 years later and i have nearly gotten my degree studying it, & imo: she is one of the most evil humans to ever had existed – not to mention, she is NEVER mentioned in an academic setting.

and you’re totally right, objectivism stands in complete opposition to EVERY religion i am familiar with (and so does capitalism, cough).

bleh.

The icing on the cake is the piece at the end of the magazine about political wives who have been publicly humiliated by their philandering husbands, and seeing Jenny Sanford’s name there. Thanks, Newsweek.