Ayn Rand Box Set: Atlas Shrugged/ The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
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Author: Ayn RandEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-06
ISBN: 0451947673
Number of pages: 1
Publisher: Signet
Book Reviews of Ayn Rand Box Set: Atlas Shrugged/ The Fountainhead
Book Review: infantile appeal to your worst evolutionary urgings
Summary: 1 Stars
We all have a primitive inner voice, some call it the "Id", some call it the lizard brain. It's been referred to with the most clarity as the "selfish gene": Not meaning that an individual has a particular gene that makes them selfish, but that we all have genes that demand to be passed on, and thus compel us to behave selfishly: to hog resources, to create as many babies as we can (for the males at least), to lie and cheat to clamber our way to the top of the evolutionary pile, or at least make sure that our particular genes aren't extinguished in this round.
And it makes perfect sense. Obviously, in the stone age, those who didn't get enough resources perished along with their genetic code, and those who produced more offspring were more likely to pass the code on to future generations. The result: we're now in the 21st centure with an artifact in our brains telling us to do whatever it takes to maintain status, resources, and offspring.
Now, what are the most base, shallow, crude, and salient indicators of reproductive fitness primitive man and woman would have looked for? Simple: Secondary sex charcteristics and wealth. The former needs no explanation, the latter indicates ability to survive, intelligence, power, etc. etc. Never mind that there are people who are incredibly weatlhy now who have little intelligence, wit, or work ethic (eg Paris Hilton) our primitive brain still sees all that wealth and says "good good, me likey" or just "oooohhh shiny".
Now we have Ms. Rand- pseudo-intellectual poser writ large. With her bloated, pedantic, patronizing tome, glorifying monkey brain style status indicators and by god, your right to seek them at all costs. "Altruism is for the weak" shouts the Ape Queen. She towers over her drone-like followers as they worship at the temple of their own primitive drives, now given legitimacy (at least in their minds) by this and a few other of her "novels", snapping and salivating at any who may have the audacity to question the sanity of their philosophy.
Can't we all agree in this age that this kind of dressed up selfishness just doesn't work? Sadly no.
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