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BitBurn | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.
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Mike Dilger | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.
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BitBurn | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.