Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
desi’s and ayn rand. who knew?
following on from atomsmasher’s last link, here’s a discussion on the NYT books/dating article at Sepia Mutiny.
apparently a lot of american desi’s end up becoming big ayn rand fans at college. i know one such person - although he studied in canada so i’m not sure that counts. al-tahafut, can you enlighten us further. are you a closet ayn rand admirer??
i’m going to guess that part of this correlation has to do with the fact that american desi’s are generally rich and so wouldn’t be averse to a capitalist philosopher. i could do some pseudo-psycho analysis on the role their parents play but i’ll leave it to ‘randomizer’.
Also props to this comment by Minkey Chief.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Atomsmashin said:
Can you belivie it? Sepia mutiny is blocked at work. this is perverted.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
unsuitable_boy said:
lolz. obviously ure firm hasn’t outsourced all its tech stuff to india yet.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
al-tahafut said:
well, i’ve only read a little ayn rand and i don’t remember enjoying it. i do know one indian guy who’s a big fan, but then he is an mba student.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
al-tahafut said:
i see you’re writing in colour now =)
but why is everything blue?
edit: ah, it was just an open tag.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Atomsmashin said:
aah! i thought i was being chided for my terrible spelling..
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Atomsmashin said:
MBA student? does that even qualify for ’student hood’. Down here we just call ‘em burn-outs.