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Entry: The Day I Met Ayn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_day_i_met_ayn#19958 Post contents: Too bad that Ayn Rand did not want to be described as a cult leader, because it betrays her lack of self-awareness. There was, and there is a cult of Ayn Rand, and it had too many of the cult pathologies. In any case, reading her comments on literature and art, and how she judged their worth according to how well they fitted her theory makes her in my book a right-wing Stalinist. Same insistence that everything be reduced as to how it related to the Party line. She bragged that her system was logically consistent in all respects. That might be true, but as Burke warns us, in these matters, mathematical precision is not a virtue but a vice, because it assumes that we know all that there is to know, and should any new discoveries be made that contradict it, such discoveries must be belittled, hidden, or made to ignore. Sent at: 2008 05 16