Math Contradictions

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<p>[Ayn</a> Rand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_rand]Ayn”>Ayn Rand - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>She was a writer that rabidly promoted individual importance, libertarianism, and meritocracy in a vacuum. Her fanbase mostly consists of 15-25 year olds from privileged demographics and sheltered backgrounds who believe in boot straps and tend to ignore or trivialize obstacles faced by those less fortunate in life.</p>

<p>Most of her novels consist of long tirades about how poor people are poor because they are lazy and how they mess things up for all the successful people.</p>

<p>Her quotes tend to get a few derisive laughs from those who disagree with her philosophies and then affirmative action is mentioned and then everything goes to hell. It’s Godwin’s law for a new age of internet forums.</p>

<p>And now back to your regularly scheduled grade discussion.</p>

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<p>I might put it as if you asked her whether she believed in learning from her failures, she would claim that to fail, one must have acted irrationally, which means being weak, and that the premise of something positive coming from being irrational and/or weak is hugely flawed.</p>

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<p>Many just find the extremity of her words amusing, I think. If you want to be perpetually amused (barring the possibility that you found the above examples not so amusing), you might just check out her works.</p>

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<p>I wikipediaed her myself…but I don’t understand how it relates to the original question I had in this thread.</p>

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<p>Naw, don’t worry about it, it was a wisecrack at the title “contradictions.”</p>