Her "Faith" in her own absurd premises is its own kind of religion.Īlso of dubious value is the "Time" of the has been & would be John Galts of the world, as they mostly cause wars, environmental catastrophes, and great pain, suffering and unhappiness among the "men at the bottom". This belief is so ridiculous it needs no refutation. would starve in his hopeless ineptitude.", as though we each need some genius to show us where the dinner forks are at every meal lest we wither & die. With standing, is the impossibility of a her ridiculous two "Man" pyramid, and the equally stupid assumption that "the man at the bottom. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all their brains." "The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. This is her piss poor description of humanity as delivered by her most "exceptional" fictional character John Galt: Her continued use of it for several decades also may have contributed to volatile mood swings observed by her associates in later years. Her use of the drug enabled her to work long hours to meet her deadline for delivering the finished novel to Bobbs-Merrill, but when the book was done she was so exhausted that her doctor ordered two weeks rest. While completing her second novel (Fountainhead), Rand began taking the prescription amphetamine Benzedrine (aka speed, meth, crystal, & many others) to fight fatigue. As an atheist who rejected faith as antithetical to reason, Rand embraced philosophical realism and opposed all forms of what she regarded as mysticism and super-naturalism, including organized religion.
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