Having read Rand's Atlas Shrugged I was impressed by the book and its defense of individuality and liberty against the collective herd. I then read The Fountainhead and I was equally impressed. I thought "Wow, no one has done a better defense of individuality than this author and her novels". Ayn Rand was perfectly fine when she wrote novels about liberty and the place of the individual. However, the problem with her is novels weren't enough and she decided to march into the territory of philosophy. She started a philosophy termed "Objectivism", which as Wikipedia states is the following:
While I do not disagree with its promotion of laissez-faire capitalism and minimal government this philosophy has a number of points I find bones to pick with. The problem with her philosophy are threefold: first, it has promoted a cult of personality centered around the founder itself, Ayn Rand; second, it's metaphysical assumption that reason and reason itself is the only way to truth, i.e. a cult of rationalism; third, Rand's philosophy has morphed into a system of scapegoating.
While claiming objectivism, they forget that it is not objective by it's own standard, it is simply group subjectivity.
Objectivism is the philosophy of Ayn Rand. In summary, Objectivism holds that human beings are conscious of an independent reality through their senses, that reason is essential in processing this data, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is to pursue one's own rational self-interest, and that the only moral social system is full laissez-faire capitalism with a minimal government limited to courts, police, and a military.
While claiming objectivism, they forget that it is not objective by it's own standard, it is simply group subjectivity.
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