Left Coast Rebel: Ayn Rand Will Never Have a Shelf Life: Rand-O-Rama from Reason TV

by the Left Coast Rebel

.....A refugee from Soviet Russia, Rand argued that capitalism was the best way of organizing society not simply because it was more efficient than communism but because it allowed the individual to fill his or her potential. A self-declared "radical for capitalism," Rand emphatically rejected collectivism of all stripes and embraced "man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
Decades after her death, Rand's work is hotter than ever. In an age of massive government intervention into every aspect of the economy and personal lives, sales of her books are way up and a movie version of Atlas Shrugged is in the works. References to Rand are everywhere from Mad Men to The Colbert Report to The Simpsons and there's even a new critical appreciation, as evidenced by two new biographies, Ayn Rand And The World She Made and Goddess of The Market: Ayn Rand And The American Right.

Head over to the Reason Foundation and be a Radical for Capitalism.....

5 comments:

Nickie GoombaNovember 10, 2009 3:43 PM
It's time to make her required reading in our schools. I won't hold my breath.
Left Coast RebelNovember 10, 2009 3:46 PM
@ Nickie - Neither am I, but one can dream.....
Rational Nation USANovember 10, 2009 4:36 PM
NOW your talking my language! The precise reason Ayn Rand Monday is a daily weekly at Rational Nation USA.

Funny thing you should mention it Nickie, I actually had a literature teacher who did require Rand. I Believe it was Anthem and The Foutainhead.

But that was, oh so long ago, when reason actually had a place in education. I often think of her and wonder what ever happened to her.
madmath1November 11, 2009 12:07 AM
Ayn Rand required reading. I doubt any of our public educated chidren could (Atlas Shrugged is over 1200 pages), or would even understand it. After all, she uses words greater than two syllables in it. Also, it doesn't conform to the socialist utopia that's promised them.
Left Coast RebelNovember 11, 2009 8:25 AM
@ Les - Thanks, I wonder if there are any teachers today that would do that?

@ Madmath - Exactly, Atlas should be banned and/or burned, right?

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