A Rare Recording of Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, and screenwriter. She is best-known for her two influential novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Rand's first major success as a writer came with The Fountainhead in 1943, a romantic and philosophical novel that eventually became a worldwide success. It was eventually also made into a movie. Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, was considered Rand's best work. It is a novel of the morality of rational self-interest. In this public lecture, she criticizes altruism and mysticism as incompatible with business.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) wrote the bestselling novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) and founded the philosophy known as objectivism. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rand taught herself to read at the age of six and soon resolved to become a professional writer. In 1926, she left Communist Russia to pursue a screenwriting career in Hollywood, and she published her first novel ten years later. With her next book, the dystopian novella Anthem (1938), she introduced the theme that she would devote the rest of her life to pursuing: the inevitable triumph of the individual over the collective.
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Ayn Rand hätte sich nach Verlassen der Sowjetunion vermutlich einer Therapie zur Behandlung einer postraumatischen Belastungsstörung unterziehen sollen. Vielleicht hätte sie dann nicht solch einen Müll von sich gegeben und sich stattdessen intensiv und seriös damit beschäftigt, die Wirklichkeit tatsächlich verstehen. So hat es leider nur dazu gereicht, aus durchaus berechtigten antisowjetaischen Impulsen heraus eine imaginäre Gegenwelt eines segensreichen unebremsten Kapitalismus ohne Altruismus herbeizufantasieren, die es so nicht gibt und geben kann. Ohne Altruismus oder zumindest altruistische Wertvorstellungen gehörten Sklaverei, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus noch immer überall zum guten Ton. Was dabei herauskommt, erkennt man nicht nur bei verständiger Würdigung der tatsächlichen Geschichte, die nicht nur die privilegierter Menschen ist, auch wenn es sich in verstaubten Geschichtsbücher fast so liest, sondern auch bei vernünftiger Betrachtung aktueller weltpoltischer Entwicklungen.
Die sowjetischen Märchen verdammte Frau Rand, auf die amerikanischen Märchen über die eigene Geschichte fiel sie aber scheinbar ziemlich blind rein. Es spricht allerdings bei ihr auch viel für die Annahme einer streng durch Eigeninteressen geleiteten bösartigen Ideologie. Mit ihrer Einstellung hätte sie eigentlich das Neue Testament verbrennen müssen.
Für mich gehören Frau Rands Ideen und geistige Ergüsse auf den Müllhaufen der Geschichte. Wer ihnen folgt arbeitet kräftig an der Vorbereitung der Apokalypse mit. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It is Ayn Rand. She’s even worse than the cartoon villain I had in my head, railing against altruism and a living wage.