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Papantonio: Conservatives Turn Colleges Into Ayn Rand Universities
A few weeks ago, the story broke about how the Koch Brothers had bought themselves a position of influence at Florida State University. But the story goes far beyond both FSU and the Koch Brothers. It turns out that right wing billionaires and think tanks have been actively buying

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[poetic_pixie_13]

I honestly believe that Ayn Rand was a sociopath. Negl, when I find out that someone is an Objectivist or thinks she was an amazing, visionary philosopher I assume they're selfish assholes and stop associating with them. Which is a useful policy in university.

[anese]

I know a guy that is a complete Ayn Rand devotee. What makes it worse is that he will never have to experience how wrong he is--at any point in his life--

he's 25 year's old, he's white male, tall, handsome, single, no college debt and makes over 125,000/year.

He's literally less than 1% of the population.

I can't talk politics with him--you just can't. He'll never see the world any other way.

[green_glitter_]

Yeah, I have this friend who's an Ayn Rand fan. His parents are LOADED. Not kind of middle-class well off, but filthy rich. He's also young, white, straight...

[sillysallyfckup]

Same, my old roommate was really into the whole Objectivist way of thinking. He was very... civil, so I was too, but I found most of what he said absolutely abhorrent.

After a while I just stopped talking to him as much, it was a weird living situation.

On another note, he also said we should get a gun for the apartment at one time and I am really, really glad it never happened.

[curseangel]

I agree, and I do that, too. I've known a few Rand-fans in school, and mostly promptly stopped considering them even so much as potential acquaintances.

[tmlforsyth]

I read that she took some iffy medication in the 30s, which may have had a big impact on her. Every College student is bound to attach to some radical, though she was humorless and vindictive. Her political fans are amusing, as she despised conservatives, and she'd beat most Tea Baggers with her collected works. She also despised the Libertarian Party, calling them hippies of the right.

[roseofjuly]

Slate wrote a really good article about Ayn Rand and how her experiences (understandably) warped her sense of reality and her psychological well-being:

http://www.slate.com/id/2233966