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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com284EPILOGUE: AYN RAND IN AMERICAN MEMORYDemocratic administration announced its stimulus plan. A new vogueemerged for “going Galt,” or restricting production so as to avoid highertaxes. Her novels touted anew by Rush Limbaugh, Rand was once morea foundation of the right-wing worldview. 10Even as she was reclaimed by her most avid fans, Rand’s work transcendedcontemporary politics. One of the many ironies of Rand’s careeris her latter-day popularity among entrepreneurs who are pioneeringnew forms of community. Among her high-profile fans is Wikipedia’sfounder Jimmy Wales, once an active participant in the listserv controversiesof the Objectivist Center. A nonprofit that depends on charitabledonations, Wikipedia may ultimately put its rival encyclopedias out ofbusiness. At the root of Wikipedia are warring sensibilities that seem toboth embody and defy Rand’s beliefs. The website’s emphasis on individualempowerment, the value of knowledge, and its own risky organizationalmodel reflects Rand’s sensibility. But its trust in the wisdomof crowds, celebration of the social nature of knowledge, and faith thatmany working together will produce something of enduring value contradictRand’s adage “All creation is individual.”Similar contradictions undergird the response to Rand of CraigNewmark, the founder of the online advertising site Craigslist. LikeWales, Newmark was once an active member of the libertarian subculture,reading “a few things by Ayn Rand, even making a pilgrimage toher offices,” and later becoming a member of the Society for IndividualLiberty. Like so many others, Newmark drifted away from Rand aftera period of intense engagement but still identified himself as someonewho prefers market solutions, a “hybrid libertarian.” 11 Something ofRand remained in his insistence that people are rational and marketswork. Even as Craigslist feeds on a Randian iconoclasm against establishedways of doing business and her faith in human rationality, it alsoundercuts Rand’s individualism through its emphasis on collaborationand mutuality. In both cases Newmark and Wales built on Rand’s ideasbut married them to a very different theory of human nature, one inwhich community and connection are paramount.It is precisely these contradictions and complexities that make Randa source of perennial fascination. Rand insisted that she had held theessentials of her philosophy since she was a child, and she presentedher ideas as fixed and unchanging by their very nature. But her work