Choice...

[fajrdrako]

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. - Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982

See, I may not approve of her philosophy on the whole, but she did have some great lines!

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

She did have a talent for making selfishness seem righteous if not holy, didn't she?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

And grossly exaggerates the individual's powers of self-determination. You'd think, from that, that there was no such thing as "environment", "society" (was Thatcher, who said, "There is no such thing as society, only individuals and families" a Rand-ite?), or any kind of wider cultural influences. Many things in our world are ready-mades, with which we have to learn to live, or else react against them. But we don't put them there ourselves.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

She also didn't specify what kind of choice she was thinking of; though if her message was, "Be careful about your choices, because they will have consequences," I think that is a good message. It's just that my choices would seldom be the same as hers!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Nor mine, I think, however tempting on occasion.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Next time you consider ruling the world - ?

You at least have the kind of artistic talent Rand likes in a hero!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That she did!