Does anyone else find reading Ayn Rand’s non-fiction significantly easier than Popper’s? By easier, I mostly mean easier to read more of in a sitting and faster to read. I can see that I’m not fully grasping everything that Rand is saying as I’m reading it but it doesn’t block me from reading on. With Popper, it’s easier for me to lose the thread of his discussion as he goes from one idea to the next.
Does it have to do with the difficulty of the subject matter that they’re covering? Does it have to with the writing style? Does it have to do Rand’s ideas having more overlap with some semi-mainstream capitalism stuff?
I also wonder if I’m reading Rand’s material in a moral tribalist way than Popper’s. I’ve also been familiar with capitalism ideas a lot longer than Popper’s ideas.