Ayn Rand

[jbor]

>From: monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>

>  But, interestingly, we once
> again seem violently to agree on something.  Hope you've seen both the
> nigh-unto-hagiographic documentary, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, as well
> as the rather less flattering (and far more enjoyable) "biopic," The
> Passion of Ayn Rand (then again, I laughed more at the documentary, so
> ...), read Jeff Walker's The Ayn Rand Cult (LaSalle, IL: Open Court,
> 1998)

The Barbara Branden biography after which the biopic is named is also a
laugh, though not intended as such. Actually, the sexual infidelity which
was apparently rife amongst the Rands and Brandens and their acolytes, and
the subsequent falling outs between them all, sound more like something from
out of Aleister Crowley's or the Byron-Shelley camps. See also Mary
Gaitskill's early 90s novel, _Two Girls, Fat and Thin_, which effectively
satirises Rand's theories and influence.



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    "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
     any piece of machinery, was the real and major
     result of the Industrial Revolution - had been
     extended to include the Manhattan Project, the
     German long-range rocket program and the death
     camps, such as Auschwitz.It has taken no major
     gift of prophecy to see how these three curves
      of development might plausibly converge, and
                before too long. ... "
                                 (T. Pynchon, 1984)
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