RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)

Sorry, that wasn't a jab at you. Ayn Rand followers just bug me (perhaps in the same way Nietzsche didn't like Platonists, but was more forgiving towards Plato... Except not really. I still think she's annoying).

But yeah, Nietzsche had some trouble, but that was different from what's happened with Rand (I fucking hope!). She has influenced some 'proper' (libertarian) philosophers, but they're always the first ones to dismiss her as a (again) 'proper' philosopher. Nietzsche inspired people who would do anything they could to get their names next to his. But he would have dismissed them, had he the chance (well, with some exceptions...).

I study. Philosophy/intellectual history in skool, innit. You?

That's understandable, I don't paticularly like die-hard Rand fans, they always get a little sneery. No worries, never taken personally with Philosophy.

Nietzsche has always seemed to inspire the worst kind of people, he spoke out in his life against anti-semitists and nationalist elements using his work to give philosophical backing to their agenda. It's sad that fascism is always coupled with some unthinking hatred on race/religious/national lines.

I study philosophy at Uni, although I am failing because the course is mind-numbingly dull and the city is sapping my soul out.