[lbo-talk] Read Ayn Rand

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 10:26:50 PDT 2010


On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:28 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> Actually, every one of you should read Ayn Rand. Fountainhead is the better
> book, but Atlas Shrugged is the full demented ball of wax.
>
> You should read it to understand the whole phenomenon, which is not going
> away any time soon.
>

I read AS at a young age, and I did get several advantages from it, not the least of which was inoculation. But it seems to me that it wasn't worth the opportunity cost. The Bible is even more sociologically important and of far greater literary merit; Hayek presents the libertarian case in a far more succinct and challenging form.



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