PeacefulWarrior Wrote:And don't even get me started on her ideas about love and sex.
Actually.... so I read this article in NYTimes today - I Was Ayn Rand's Lover, and honestly, I would have to say that I think she was a closet gay. It's just the impression I got, I have also found that closet gays are often the fiercest critics of homosexuality, and in addition to that she referred to herself as a "male chauvinist"....
As for the apocalypticism, I have yet to come across a cult leader without an apocalyptic, dystopian future vision. Cult leaders are masters at inducing fear, that's what they do best. They thrive on doom and gloom. I haven't read any of her books, and I doubt I would, I have kind of reached a saturation point in my research of the negative polarity. She's pretty much a textbook case as far as cult leaders go, from the persecution complex to the delusions of grandeur to the messiah complex.