I really liked how she logicaly came to the conclusion that acting responsibly and dealing honestly was also in your own best interest.
Did Tolkien claim to that LOTR was written to push his political beliefs? :dubious:
I am curious how much my novel will relate to her work I would hate to be accused of plagerism. I am basicaly developing a giant worldwide collaboration driven by peoples self worth and desire to add value. The collaboration site becomes so powerful with its limitless access to intellectual resources that industry and big money can’t touch it. They have so much horsepower going into every concept, invention or idea that by the time big money becomes aware of it there is too much steam behind it to try and steal it.
If you’re interested in the self-esteem aspects, you might want to look into Nathaniel Branden.
I remember getting so bored with Atlas Shrugged that I gave up reading it.
Thanks for that recommendation. I will certainly be following up on him. This is a good example of how not having an education is really making my writing harder. I really struggle with the research and finding the type of people I am looking for.
Rand is a cr*p artist, who stole her philosophy from Marx, then flipped the social classes.
Her so-called ideas are wildly nonsensical, & have never been attempted anywhere, & for good reason.
Finally, do not take advice from a chain-smoking drunk.
I got a similar impression but at the same time I was impressed with how impartial she could be when breaking down her logic on very subjective issues. From the little I have seen of her I did get an impression that she might be lacking in real ife experience to round off her perspectives.
Rand was a solipsist.
Yet we’re still here, hmmmm
If this is your thesis, nobody will accuse you of plagiarizing Rand. Really.
She does such an eloquent job of expressing some of her concepts that quoting her is very tempting. If quotes are used and credits are given is permission needed.
If your quotes constitute fair use then, no, no permission is needed.
Some parts of Ayn Rand’s books are so apt to modern US state that you wonder if she was prescient.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt.”
That’s the modern US governance system. It was not as developed back when this was written. She definitely predicted the direction it would take.
My father, who’s a hard-core Tea Party Republican type, agrees with at least some of what Rand was saying. And even he found Atlas Shrugged to be one of the ridiculous, tedious books he ever had the misfortune to open.
She really is facinating. I see the above as a dramatized example forcing us to look more closely at the direction we are headed.
Oh really. Somehow you don’t instead see this as what the American law enforcement system has been doing to black Americans ever since Reconstruction ended?
the more I learn about her, the more I dislike her
Ayn Rand admired a serial killer
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No I don’t see that happening. I see a problem with the American black finding value in themselves in American Society , I think they need more and better opportunities to find things they can add value to enhancing their own value. Persistent sterotypes have excluded them from the main stream resulting in poverty that only perpetuates the sterotypes.
Agreed. Everyone knows you need the Necronomicon to do any serious spell casting. 
Rand has inspired so much fiction, you’d almost have to work at it deliberately in order to make plagiarism noticeable. I have faith that you’ll come up with enough original ideas to make the work “your own.”
There really are ideas in her mix that are worth exploring. They just need a little maturity. But look how much she grew between Fountainhead and Atlas. If you can continue one step further in the same direction, you’d be doing fine.
(And I have great faith that your book won’t contain a hundred-page monologue! 
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