[Am-info] Ayn Rand Institute?

[Hans Reiser]

Eric M. Hopper wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:59, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>>Mitch Stone wrote:
>>
>>>She is much beloved and taken very, very seriously among free market 
>>>zealots of all stripes, and especially libertarians, a group she 
>>>curiously disavowed during lifetime.
>>>
>>Can you say more about her disavowing libertarians? I was unaware of 
>>that, and I am curious as to why.
>>
>
>Her term for them was "The hippies of the right.".  As I understand it,
>it's because libertarians feel it's only your right, not your duty to
>put your own self-interest above everything else.  She felt strongly
>that the only moral life was one in which you followed your own
>self-interest while not interfering (politically (i.e. with force or
>threat of force)) in others pursuing theirs.
>
>Have fun (if at all possible),
>
Wow.  Ok, it is logically consistent, I gotta give her that.  Wow. 
 Missing any concept of herd welfare.  Missing any concept of group 
interest.  But internally logically consistent.....  I think she is a 
holy woman.  Holy men are normally a bit batty, it is part of their role 
of serving as lighthouses for the rest of us to navigate by....

Hans