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Her books were all about the way to be happy and be ethically true to an ideal of True Man.

Sure, this article's a hit job, but if 1) she couldn't live up to her own ideal of being a True Man and 2) her ideals didn't make her happy, why the fuck should we listen to her?

BiterAtmonk:

Sure, this article's a hit job, but if 1) she couldn't live up to her own ideal of being a True Man and 2) her ideals didn't make her happy, why the fuck should we listen to her?

The same reason people listen(ed) to Marx. He was smart and he made his stuff sound good, even if there was little of practical application in the real world. Let's be glad the closest to Randian we ever had in office was Ronald Reagan. The Marxist leaders of history were a lot worse.