Angelina Jolie: Frustrated Randian ?

Angelina Jolie will be costarring in the upcoming movie of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. OK, lets leave off about how Rand's novels are unreadable. And how they are only thought provoking if you happen to be a high school senior. What interests me is how all the publicity about the movie keeps talking about what a great fan Jolie is of Rand's work.
Is this the same Angelina Jolie who taken humanitarian missions to the likes of Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Tanzania? The Angelina Jolie who was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador? The same Angelina Jolie who said..

"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us."


I am not making light of all her efforts. But I do think that perhaps she should acquaint herself with some of the choicer quotes of the Merciless Ming... I mean Rand.


"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."

Or...


"The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves. The relationship produces nothing but mutual corruption. It is impossible in concept. The nearest approach to it in reality -- the man who lives to serve others -- is the slave. If physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit. The conquered slave has a vestige of honor. He has the merit of having resisted and of considering his condition evil. But the man who enslaves himself voluntarily in the name of love is the basest of creatures. He degrades the dignity of man, and he degrades the conception of love. But that is the essence of altruism."

All in all I would rather be a Jolian than a Randian.