How high is your social-consciousness meter?

JR, you are being ridiculous. Say you've read her work and you don't agree, or you see illogic in her approach. Feel free to even respond to what I wrote about her ideas on this thread (and I am no expert, just someone with some interest) with something tangible about why you think those ideas are dishonest. Fine. But a "crackpot" can ALWAYS easily be dismissed intellectually. And you've skipped right by that right into arrogant dismissiveness. No offense, but that's what rigid people often do rather than confronting difficult ideas they find threatening.

But dude, it's cheap and easy. Throwing around the word "sophmoric" is a half-assed way to dismiss someone. Comparing someone who sees value in what she wrote to Hitler's belief in something (and all you need is a search engine to come up with the names of some very serious people who have been influenced by her) smacks of someone with no ammo. Basically, you haven't said a word about anything the woman wrote, other than your certainty that she's a "crackpot" and she has some sort of sophmoric ideas about capitalism (and seriously, if that is your one-sentence description of what Ayn Rand wrote about, I suspect you don't understand anything with any amount of complexity... let alone Nietzsche).

Why not hit a library or simply type Nietzsche's and her her name into a search engine and read the TOMES that have been written about whether or not her thinking was influenced by his and about the similarities and differences in their philosophies. Why not look at the credentials of some of the people taking that topic seriously. Of course, all the people writing those things and actually taking her seriously are "shallow" and "ignorant" and don't understand Neitzsche the way you do. They're crackpots, I guess.