Why Ayn Rand ceases to impress when I am over 40?
It all started with my nephew's post of an extract from Fountainhead on Facebook. I found it hardly impressive. For the records I'm over 40 now and want to claim that I am worldly wiser. But the same text was so appealing when I was in college and during my early career. Though I didn't imagine myself to be Howard, I was arrogant about what I wanted to do. I came out of a TCS interview that I will never do COBOL, walked out of my first job because of differences with my boss. Even now I won't do COBOL, but when I walked out of the interview, I had no job, no good grades and had nothing to support my ego. (Even now, I have a secret fear that I may be forced to work for India's big "so called" technology companies. Thank God, it is only a fear.) It is obvious that my perception changed with age. And I find it normal for a younger person to align with Ayn Rand just as it is normal for me to value collective work and greater good....