Reason Foundation Co-Founder Tibor Machan on Ayn Rand

What does this guy mean when people dismissed her? We had a whole fucking red scare in this country, and the government took it out on our own working class.

"These superifical people always have some cheap, sociological explanation for why she's so popular."

OK, let me give you one focusing on her ideas: she was so popular because she gave people unable to cope with life's complexities simple slogans they could repeat as a substitute for actually thinking.

God these "Reason" guys are just so wishy-washy. If you go listen to Ayn Rand talk for 6 minutes you will learn so much more than you will listening to this weirdo.

Tibor Machan explains Ayn Rand so well. She tried. I think she did well considering the era she was living in. Much to learn from her.

Yuki Togawa

Rand was Russian, Rand was a woman, Rand was a novelist, Rand couldn't fit in fully with the left nor the right, she looked unusual, etc, etc, etc...

These superifical people always have some cheap, sociological explanation for why she's so popular.

It's always anything and everything besides the fundamentality of her ideas. The fact that she was the first to ever fully defend what the rest of us liked, but never knew why we did so.

Her biggest fault was keeping 50% of her former communist homelands ideas. In practice Communism is based on atheism and selfishness.
She was the epitome of damaged goods. Her past made her blind to the truth that pure selfishness is an empty and hollow way to live.
No one should be forced to give any one anything against their will. That is robbery or slavery. Still, as the wisest man to ever lived said, "There is more happiness in giving than in receiving." The key is voluntary giving.

Nov. 9,'09 -
There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand because she was a FEMALE.
There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand being an ATHEIST.
There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand having a crush on Actor Gary Cooper.
What was wrong with Ayn Rand was she is a jew.
* Only a jew would defend selfish behavior.
"Riches go to spoil." Change the word to spoil to EXPLOIT. There is the evidence of selfishness.

Splnnogov=Racist

Rand wasn't "treated well" in the late 1950's/early 1960's? Even with all the money she made back then from sales of her novels? I'd readily accept that kind of ill treatment as long as the checks keep coming in.

Rand was interested in spreasing her ideas very much; getting money without achieving her ultimate goal would hardly satisfy her.