Michael T. Martin

culture & the contemporary city

If Objectivism seems familiar, it is because most people know it under another name: adolescence. Many of us experienced a few unfortunate years of invincible self-involvement, testing moral boundaries and prone to stormy egotism and hero worship. Usually one grows out of it, eventually discovering that the quality of our lives is tied to the benefit of others. Rand’s achievement was to turn a phase into a philosophy, as attractive as an outbreak of acne. a less-than-glowing review of Atlas Shrugged. (via morninggloria)

(Source: post-gazette.com, via modernandmaterialthings)