epistemology is not dependent on action, chimptrain. and we really don't want to see selfish naive pragmatism bloom any more than it already has. you know for someone who declared herself an atheist, ayn really absorbed the worst of christian naivete. it's like, hey, let's pump up a so-called "realist" episteme that makes continental rationalists and idealists seem like the connected realists. it's like she never fucking left home or experienced life, spending her whole life in some sort of uber-introverted fantasy world.
yoda says
"profoundly unhappy, she was."
ryan is just a fag masquerading as a bland achiever in khakis. he's just as much a ballmunch as biden, just in a different mode.