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Objectivism just can't quite figure out what it wants to be, all too often deteriorating into capitalist apologetics. There's some good in there, I just know it... but Ayn Rand & her followers are unable, understandably, to reconcile their worship of the Individual with their worship of Success, acting as if the two always go hand in hand while simultaneously insisting that they don't. And that's usually Success Under Capitalism, since capitalism offers the most potential opportunity for the individual to achieve this narrow definition of Success. They forget the lesson of Howard Rourke: Success and Recognition might happen... might not... in fact, they're irrelevant...

The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated - A Library of Congress Exhibition, color photographs of Russia taken during the early 20th century.