Once upon a time Alan Greenspan didn’t believe he existed. If only he had been right about that:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan once doubted his own existence.
A friend had to convince Greenspan that he actually existed prior to a meeting with Ayn Rand in the 1950s.
After that he was introduced to Ayn Rand, became her fan-boy and the rest as they say ultimately devolved into an historic catastrophe — for everyone but Alan Greenspan and our Wall Street crime overlords, that is.
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."was this like a ‘I can’t believe I’m really meeting Janis Joplin’ type of thing, or was he on peyote?
Me, I’d like to know how you convince someone they exist if they’re not sure. Physical damage, or what?
Even though I can’t stand the old objectivist asshole, I think this story is trying to make Greenspan look like more of a chump than is warranted. His purported obsession with the idea of existence sounds like it is simply an ontological exercise, and nothing more. Trying to make it sound as if he doubted his own corporeal existence is a bit silly.