On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:25:29 -0500, Glenn Zelniker
wrote:

Michael McKelvy wrote:


GZ said she was muddle-headed. That is clearly bull****.
Agree with her or not, nobody can claim she was muddle-headed.

Mike, precocious twelve-year olds have brief dalliances with
Rand's work. They grow out of it by the age of fourteen.
You'd be better off reading Hubbard's "Dianetics."
Objectivism is fundamentally flawed from the get-go.

It might be flawed, but I have to agree with Mike that she isn't
muddle-headed. I had my Rand phase for about a week in my late teens.
I guess I was a late bloomer.

Still, I've been meaning to reread The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged
(I think I reread them in my mid-twenties as well) because I remember
liking some of the overheated polemics.