Sorry, Kurt, but as someone who went through my Ayn Rand phase a long time ago, I am quite confident in consigning her third-rate pseudo-philosophy to the dustbin of history. She simply doesn't possess the depth or originality of thought to be taken seriously as a thinker, and she shows little comprehension of the major philosophical currents in Western culture over the last two thousand years. Her writings are barely any better than the pop psychology of L. Ron Hubbard.