Ayn Rand's philosophies only work in the context of her fictions. Even if we take Mister Agenda's explanations, the world doesn't uniformly work that way, and her stories are delusions of grandeur writ large.
Someone said she seemed sexually frustrated. She used her non-fiction writings about her philosophies to argue why she should be allowed to take a younger lover - and did.
Atlas Shrugged was internally inconsistent even at its end, when a good, hardworking intelligent individual is left in the dust not because he's a moocher but because the main character didn't give two fucks about him, despite years of loyal service. The book seemed to say, at least as far as the love-triangles involved, that of course the absolutely beautiful wish-fulfillment Dagny would only fuck "worthy" men until she found the human equivalent of "the most alpha". But her assistant? Not even worth rescuing as this alpha burned the world down.
Fuck her and her philosophies. It's terrible literature and terrible to base your life on.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
Someone said she seemed sexually frustrated. She used her non-fiction writings about her philosophies to argue why she should be allowed to take a younger lover - and did.
Atlas Shrugged was internally inconsistent even at its end, when a good, hardworking intelligent individual is left in the dust not because he's a moocher but because the main character didn't give two fucks about him, despite years of loyal service. The book seemed to say, at least as far as the love-triangles involved, that of course the absolutely beautiful wish-fulfillment Dagny would only fuck "worthy" men until she found the human equivalent of "the most alpha". But her assistant? Not even worth rescuing as this alpha burned the world down.
Fuck her and her philosophies. It's terrible literature and terrible to base your life on.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
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