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 I read Atlas Shrugged and came away with the distinct impression that she is confused. Very firm and certain in her confused beliefs.

Like she was 90% there I think, and the 10% she didn't understand was so fundamentally different from her line of thinking that she could find and fix it.... it was foundationally wrong.

This reply is my impression of my feelings on objectivism. I haven't thought about it in years, so it would be hard to explain how I think she was wrong. 
 AS was purely a fiction but I think Ayn did relate to Dagny Taggert in a personal way, but it was a misplaced relationship as she in no way resembled Dagny in real life.

As a work of fiction it was poorly written and yet still resonated. 
 It is in the thousand page soliloquies that you get a sense for her morality. And much of it is very standard American Libertarian, which I mostly agree with. But then she attempted to take the ideas to a higher plane, to some unifying principles or something, and I think the attempt failed.

But I don't know for sure. I didn't read the fountainhead; I don't have her more direct statements on objectivity. 
 I tried to read Fountainhead a couple of times but couldn't do it..

If you re-read Atlas Shrugged and insert Satoshi's name for Hank Reardon and Bitcoin for the "Engine of the World", it makes a great deal of sense. She was a pre-cog.