re: #321 HappyWarrior

I never got into Rand thankfully. I had to read some of her crap for philosophy class and saw her interviewed. What I saw was a bitter old woman who called charity immoral but one I later learned was taking social security. Rand had a tough early life I concede but her response to Bolshevism was to create something just as bad.

I didn’t know that stuff until later. One summer between sophomore and junior year I rented a room outside DC while playing in a band and working full time in a bagel restaurant. At night I read whatever books I could get my hands on, and somehow found Rand. The other college kids at the restaurant sure fit the pattern of lazy workers I found in the books, but I was too stupid to recognize that they were entitled pricks from frats and sororities who had to take summer courses because they couldn’t manage to pass regular class and that they were lazy because they probably had jobs locked in after college anyway. It really didn’t take me long to see through all of it. I can’t believe I wasted time on those stupid extended monologues….