tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post2674928764323173469..comments2023-10-19T10:55:19.914-07:00Comments on Robert Bonomo's Blog: The Fountainhead RevisitedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-31463438993372033002014-01-09T09:24:51.480-08:002014-01-09T09:24:51.480-08:00So, have you finished "Atlas Shrugged" y...So, have you finished "Atlas Shrugged" yet? I probably first read "The Fountainhead" when I was thirteen, having red hair and wanting to be an Engineer / Architect (ending up as a Naval Architect). I have a problem with the Neo-Cons and the way they are using Ayn Rand. It was refreshing to hear your take on The Fountainhead, as that is closer to the love I have for her philosophy books. More of this is needed to convince the world that she isn't the Neo Con muse...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-43292128712967950492010-05-26T17:37:50.534-07:002010-05-26T17:37:50.534-07:00Yes, she is long-winded at times. But she had firs...Yes, she is long-winded at times. But she had first-hand experience of the "Socialist experiment" that began in Russia in 1917, and you can't blame her for being shrill about it. She makes a clear picture of that in "Atlas Shrugged", in the story of the "communal factory". I only experienced Socialism as commune-alism in a spiritual community, where everyone was supposedly high-minded, but in essense I saw the same things happening to people and how they operated and thought. It is an impractical and immoral system, as summarized so well by Margaret Thatcher: "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com