Ayan Rand’s Fictions People associated with me always grimace when I say I enjoyed Ayn Rand's book immensely. How can someone who was born and reared in a collectivist society like India enjoy objectivist fiction? Being from a collectivist society with a degree of individual freedom may have conditioned my mind to appreciate extreme objectivism while coping with the negative side effects of a collectivist society. That is the first reason. Negative effect: I think I should clarify that only in instances of individual freedom is a person's willingness to make unintended sacrifices questioned. These sacrifices reach a point where a person forgets about his own happiness, even if he is joyful, claiming that everyone's happiness is his own. The second reason for my admiration of her fictional work may be a parallel to my own search for the inner self and for giving...
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