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Quixote1818

(28,903 posts)
Sun May 19, 2019, 04:59 PM May 2019

I never knew that Nathaniel Branden had an affair with Ayn Rand. Sounds like he eventually woke up

and realized she was full of shit but this Wikipedia article (link below) doesn't go into much detail and I am disappointed he ever was even remotely on board with her BS in the first place. Anyone know more about him now? I read his book 'The Disowned Self' back in college and thought it was a pretty good read hitting on how destructive things like dogmatic religion can be often causing a person to lose touch with who they are especially if if they are indoctrinated with it at a young age. I would have to read it again to remember much more. I always held him in high regard but it sounds like he is a bit on the conservative side which is too bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Branden

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I never knew that Nathaniel Branden had an affair with Ayn Rand. Sounds like he eventually woke up (Original Post) Quixote1818 May 2019 OP
Okay, wow! He is a total piece of shit I just discovered from this video Quixote1818 May 2019 #1
Let me strongly recommend "The Passion of Ayn Rand" with comradebillyboy May 2019 #5
Thank you. Will check it out. nt Quixote1818 May 2019 #6
I second your recommendation unc70 May 2019 #7
Sounds like he woke up in 1968. dhol82 May 2019 #2
Try this book: Ayn Rand and the World She Made no_hypocrisy May 2019 #3
Thanks, will check it out. nt Quixote1818 May 2019 #4
He drank the Ayn Rand Kool-Aid with gusto. 3catwoman3 May 2019 #8
Was Alan Greenspan a Rand disciple? And he ran US fiscal policy? bobbieinok May 2019 #9

Quixote1818

(28,903 posts)
1. Okay, wow! He is a total piece of shit I just discovered from this video
Sun May 19, 2019, 05:05 PM
May 2019

Saying HC is not a right. Fuck him! Yes other people have to produce to create a HC system but we should also take care of one another because it just the good and decent thing to do you fucking ass hole!

comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
5. Let me strongly recommend "The Passion of Ayn Rand" with
Sun May 19, 2019, 05:16 PM
May 2019

Helen Mirren in the title role, Peter Fonda as her husband and Eric Stoltz asNathaniel Branden. Based on the book by Branden's wife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Ayn_Rand_(film)



3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
8. He drank the Ayn Rand Kool-Aid with gusto.
Sun May 19, 2019, 06:23 PM
May 2019

I have read his auto-biography, and the one by his now ex-wife, and what a bunch of sick puppies. IIRC, when he would knock on the door of Rand's home, her husband, Frank O'Connor would let him in, knowing that Branden and Rand were going to have sex in the Rand O'Connor home, while he was there. Barbara Branden knew all about it, too.

Eewww, eewww, EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

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