tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post2313250233547125935..comments2023-11-02T04:21:10.340-04:00Comments on The way the Ball bounces: The Ball Bounces to Ayn RandBallBounceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-50492282189596409392010-09-18T21:46:40.280-04:002010-09-18T21:46:40.280-04:00Psychotherapist Albert Ellis had run ins with Rand...Psychotherapist Albert Ellis had run ins with Rand cultists in the 1960's, and he concluded that Rand's philosophy practically guarantees to make the people who try to live according to its impossible standards depressed, anxious and hostile. He even wrote a book to that effect. The recent biographies of Rand show that the emotional disturbances in her followers began at the source.<br /><br />Ellis's form of psychotherapy, by contrast, emphasizes human limitations and fallibility, yet teaches strategies to live happily with our flaws.Mark Plushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03859046131830902921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-90663510857289261312010-09-18T16:24:36.915-04:002010-09-18T16:24:36.915-04:00When I was young, I read a couple of Rand's no...When I was young, I read a couple of Rand's novels (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), which I enjoyed despite the long tedious repetitive political dissertations scattered throughout.<br /><br />But even then I thought objectivism -- whose fundamental tenet is that one must live one's life solely for one's own sake -- was an unworkable philosophy. How, for example, do we account for the responsibility that someone has to support one's immediate family?rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371229772899723851noreply@blogger.com