Posted by Steve on July 05, 2003 at 22:29:13:
In Reply to: Re: Microislet JDRF Hybrid Funding posted by Alan Bachrach on July 05, 2003 at 21:53:57:
Ayn Rand is one of my favorite fiction writers. I just got back from the UK and was reminded of Atlas Shrugged when I heard some news reports there. It seems that it is going to take the UK another seven years to get the trains to run on time. We had arranged for transport from London to Gatwick airport on the Gatwick express train. Two days before we left the train derailed. It was very much like her book.
By the way, Ayn Rand was a Russian Jew. She was non-practicing and did not hold any beliefs in God. One of her students from discussion/study group that would publish an essay in her books was none other than Alan Greenspan.
Her philosophy of objectivism leaves out much in social human conduct but is thought provoking.
Steve