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IchorFigure

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  1. In my last year of high school I was digging through all the scholarship offers on the internet. There are so many oddball scholarship offers it's mind blowing. Most of them require being a minority of some kind or special interest group, or writing about the sacrifice of the war veterans, or how great it is to be tolerant of all cultures, blahblahblah. The usual liberal tree hugger bull crap. I made some attempt at writing essays for some of them, but I really just couldn't, because I honestly couldn't commit to it. So eventually there were a few interesting offers left, one of which was the Fountainhead scholarship essay contest. So, I thought, hey all right I can read a book simple enough. Plus as vaguely as I could tell it was a fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wrights life (so people had said), and that was cool too, I really liked his work. So not long after starting to read it, I was just startled by how personally it resonated. There are portions where she describes Roarks social attitude and it felt like someone had been observing my life and writing it down. I tore through the book pretty fast. Once I was done, the first thing I did was to go check out the author. I thought it was much too good to be true, how the hell would someone with so much integrity live up to her words. I had already been an Atheist for years, and it was refreshing enough the main character had no religion. So I fully expected to read about Ayn Rand and find out she was some kind of doting old christian in reality, but at least the fiction would still be great even if the author's a shmuck hypocrite. Of course when I actually found out how untrue that was, my jaw just about hit the floor. It was almost inconceivable, I'd never heard of someone with so much creativity and integrity. I quickly moved on to AS after that. I read it at every free moment during school. My english lit. teacher actually had to tell me to stop reading it and pay attention. By this time I was both enthralled and confused. This author seemed amazing to me, so why had I never heard of her before? Why the hell wasn't this being introduced to us in English class? The stark contrast between putting down the Fountainhead, and beginning my high school english class reading an ancient native american mythology was insulting. It wasn't until recently I'm starting to see precisely why she gets so little respect she deserves.
  2. I love this movie. Has anyone else seen it? http://www.finelinefeatures.com/legendof1900/ It represents a lot of the basic ideas of Objectisivm in my opinion. Described as a "Romantic Myth". The story is all about a boy who grows up on a ship in the 1900's. The main character is exceedingly talented, and works toward his own self interest but obviously has his own moral standards. The acting, music, and writing is all very well done and cohesive. The only thing I'd put into question is the ending, but I wouldn't want to explain it. Trailer here:
  3. Well actually, at least one person was able to make this stuff up. It's precisely the kind of corrupt cronyism fleshed out in Atlas Shrugged. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805070008?f=h_latest It's disgusting this kind of thing takes place in day to day modern society.
  4. All I can really say in response to that is that it just makes the most sense to me. I read religious text, or other types of philosophy and it's like complete gibberish gobbledeegook.
  5. Hello, nice to e-meet you. I'm relatively new to Objectivism. I'm familiar enough to know to capitalize the "O", but not enough to really comprehend the bulk of it. I've so far read all her ficiton (except the most niche shorty stories and plays I think), as well as most of the separate non-fiction dealing with her philosophy, virture of selfishness, capitalism: the unknown ideal, romantic manifesto, etc. I have not read OPAR yet, although I did read Peikoff's Ominous Parallels. In any case that should give you the idea of where I stand. I've taken a renewed interest in Objectivism, and so I thought I'd dabble around the forum to interact with people who can likely answer questions or concerns.
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