I read Atlas this summer. It was hard going, but rewarding in the end. It made every other work of fiction I have read since seem easy. Ayn Rand’s ideas are wonderfully different. They refreshed my thinking. However, I carried a ‘cult warning’ consciously in my head while reading and remembered it every time I had the urge to give up everything I owned and head to Colorado. In short, concerns about the cult of Ayn Rand put me off taking her as seriously as I might have otherwise done. (I’m not saying I would have gone to the gulch had I not had this proviso.)
I read Atlas this summer. It was hard going, but rewarding in the end. It made every other work of fiction I have read since seem easy. Ayn Rand’s ideas are wonderfully different. They refreshed my thinking. However, I carried a ‘cult warning’ consciously in my head while reading and remembered it every time I had the urge to give up everything I owned and head to Colorado. In short, concerns about the cult of Ayn Rand put me off taking her as seriously as I might have otherwise done. (I’m not saying I would have gone to the gulch had I not had this proviso.)