I listened to a speech by Ayn Rand yesterday. As you usual, I felt sorry for Rand because in many ways she seemed rather pathetic. She did make a few good points such regarding her position as a pro-choice woman and Ronald Reagan’s tendency to not be on the side of true freedom. But overall it sounded like “Ayn Rand at a cocktail party trying to impress a rich guy to marry her.”

So called Objectivism seems to be an odd reversal of roles in which the traditional bad guy becomes the good guy. A philosophy embraced by people who are only intent on licking the boots of the rich and the powerful. Had there been Objectivists around during the Revolutionary War period the would probably have sided with the wealthy aristocracy of the British royalty.