Ayn Rand’s 1959 Interview with Mike Wallace

There are intellectuals and then there are smart thinkers. Intellectuals tend to gather in groups, talk smartly and have little concern for practical application. Smart thinkers tend to include those who look out the window and see a world that is not perfect and cannot sit as a model or become a broad laboratory for social test cases without breaking down. Unfortunately, intellectuals can be disguised as smart thinkers and we end up with the pendulum that takes society or parts of it from the far end of one spectrum to the far end of the opposing spectrum, creating the equivalent of a super bowl team that has 11 quarterbacks (are there 11 on the field in Canada?). The counterbalance is that not too bright people can also masquerade as smart thinkers and we get the U.S. Congress - pick either party, especially the leadership. Not enough space to print my book - "Atlas Stubbed his Toe".