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Philosphy: Who Needs It
All of her other works except maybe The Virtue of Selfishness can be skipped in favor of it

>>11047656
I can explain explicitly why. Other than cultural Marxism being in-the-vogue in these institutions and the desire to simply not allow capitalism's greatest philosopher a voice among them that is.
See the entrenched government-assisted academic's motivation is one of stagnation. Rand represented a philosophic paradigm shift of a magnitude only twice before witnessed in the persons of Aristotle and John Locke. This carried very grave implications for a particular breed of academic (this is also the perogative of /lit/'s small to medium neetfag contingent). Ayn Rand's Objectivism posited conceptual integration on a level no other philosopher had before. She also coined many original logical fallacies, the term "psycho-epistemology", and was the first to identify the true nature of Altruism's evil. Including it among their (academics) other disparate half formed, half actualized "philosophies", they find it eats everything it comes into contact with. This disrupts their vested interest in keeping a fanciful salad-esque collection of philosophies to catalog away and do nothing objectively meritous with it on their own terms. Despite what these sorts of people would have to say it isn't Ayn Rand but academia as it stands that is "the joke".

The other day I had an epiphany on what to name this phenomenon: I call it "Collectathon Philosophizing"

>>11030521
Philosphy: Who Needs It.
The author explicitly explains how depression is a symptom of unintegrated thinking.