HP's strategy explained :

Arthur Entlich wrote:
The URL at the end of your posting explains it all. (Ayn Rand)

For just one or many alternate prospectives, people might wish to
look at:
http://www.theinterim.com/2003/june/05aynrand.html

As just one look at her philosophy and her life.

Here's just one quote from it, which pretty much says it all:

Barbara Branden tells us, in her book, The Passion of Ayn Rand, of
how
Miss Rand managed to make the lives of everyone around her
miserable,
and when her life was over, she had barely a friend in the world.
She
was contemptuous even of her followers. When Rand was laid to rest
in
1982 at the age of 77, her coffin bore a six-foot replica of the
dollar sign. Her philosophy, which she adopted from an early age,
helped to assure her solitude: "Nothing existential gave me any
great
pleasure. And progressively, as my idea developed, I had more and
more a sense
of loneliness." It was inevitable, however, that a philosophy that
centred on the self to the exclusion of all others would leave its
practitioner in isolation and intensely lonely.

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All I can say is Atlas wasn't the only one who "shrugged" when she
left this planet.

Probably her most important contribution to "thought" was her
unshakable belief that Selfishness was a virtue, and that
self-interest was man's only real motive.

Although you obviously clearly embrace this POV, I am pleased that
most of the people I surround myself with function in a different
realm.
Art


Stephen Grossman wrote:



http://www.aynrand.org

sh

Frank ess wrote:
Arthur Entlich wrote:
The URL at the end of your posting explains it all. (Ayn Rand)

For just one or many alternate prospectives, people might wish to
look at:
http://www.theinterim.com/2003/june/05aynrand.html

As just one look at her philosophy and her life.

Here's just one quote from it, which pretty much says it all:

Barbara Branden tells us, in her book, The Passion of Ayn Rand, of
how
Miss Rand managed to make the lives of everyone around her
miserable,
and when her life was over, she had barely a friend in the world.
She
was contemptuous even of her followers. When Rand was laid to rest
in
1982 at the age of 77, her coffin bore a six-foot replica of the
dollar sign. Her philosophy, which she adopted from an early age,
helped to assure her solitude: "Nothing existential gave me any
great
pleasure. And progressively, as my idea developed, I had more and
more a sense
of loneliness." It was inevitable, however, that a philosophy that
centred on the self to the exclusion of all others would leave its
practitioner in isolation and intensely lonely.

=======================

All I can say is Atlas wasn't the only one who "shrugged" when she
left this planet.

Probably her most important contribution to "thought" was her
unshakable belief that Selfishness was a virtue, and that
self-interest was man's only real motive.

Although you obviously clearly embrace this POV, I am pleased that
most of the people I surround myself with function in a different
realm.
Art


Stephen Grossman wrote:



http://www.aynrand.org

sh

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