I’ve been reading these forums since about September of last year. I really don’t know why I didn’t register an account before, so that’s why I’m making one now.
I first heard of Ayn Rand ~2 years ago in high school (I’m in college now) when I overheard someone who read a book for class mentioned to their friend that “it wasn’t that bad” and their friend responded “I didn’t really like it”. I glance over and see the book is “The Fountainhead”. I never heard of the book before and the title sounded really dumb. But the author’s name seemed interesting; “Anne Rand, that kinda rhymes, that name can’t be her given name”. So I decide to wikipedia her name. I saw how her name is actually pronounced and read some general info on Objectivism. I can’t say I disagreed with anything I saw, the most “disagreement” I had was thinking “hmm since when was selfishness ever a good thing? This is pretty interesting.”
I didn’t read any of Ayn Rand’s books until a year later when I read Atlas Shrugged. Now I know that my previous conception of “selfishness” was just distorted. All my other beliefs I’ve had have become more consistent and with fewer contradictions. Fortunately for me, I’ve always been good at seeing contradictions in my thinking and in others. I’ve also always been good at identifying evasiveness in others or myself. I guess that’s why I’ve come to understand Objectivism so easily after only knowing about it for 2 years at most. I’m now reading The Fountainhead (~100 pages left).
The only other thing you need to know about me is that my passion is video games. More specifically my passion will be designing video games. Right now I’m in school to acquire enough knowledge to get a job at some video game company. As an aside, I do not think video games -are- art, but they can -contain- art (i.e. certain stories, certain graphics, certain environments).
(PS I’m not Japanese, I’ve just studied it for about ~4 semesters in school.)