Ayn Rand's strangeness was both her strength and her undoing, because she used herself as the model of humanity and never grasped how unlike other people she was.

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• Ayn Rand keeps returning to relevance in a way Milton Friedman does not, because she reached a universal human longing for independence and self-creation. JBJennifer Burns19 Jan 2025
• Ayn Rand believed she was doing rational philosophy, but the work that actually made her powerful was mythopoetic and psychological. JBJennifer Burns19 Jan 2025
• The circle around Ayn Rand became totally conformist because its members held that rationality was the only way to decide anything and that being rational meant agreeing with her. JBJennifer Burns19 Jan 2025
• An inability to see the viewpoints of people unlike oneself is a genuine weakness in a social scientist, not merely a separate moral failing. TCTyler Cowen1 Oct 2023
• Objectivism's fundamental flaw is that it is justified by a fictional world rather than the real one, which makes it useless for understanding where we actually live. JBJennifer Burns19 Jan 2025

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