What do you think about this book? I personally like it a lot, Rand's ideas are very close to my own views on human condition. Do you know other books like this, beside obviously other works of Ayn Rand?I liked Howard Roak character. He is just like me (sigma male on his grindset). I don't understand the whole Dominique plot, maybe because I have never touched women in my life.
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>>23540667Ayn Rand is a retard. Her ideology is corrosive to a society, not enabling. When you destroy solidarity in a culture of animals that require altruism and support in order to experience fulfillment and meaning you set that culture up to fail. Rand requires weird and stupid definitions of "selfish" to define simple human behaviors she can't explain, justify or appreciate, and it caused her no small number of hypocrisies and personal failures in life, and the acceptance of her ideas in neoliberal culture has been a disaster for humans.
>>23540667Nostromo by Joseph ConradBlack August by Dennis Wheatley
Ayn Rand sucks and you should feel bad
>>23540837You sound like collectivist
Is impossible to have any conversation about her books nowadays without getting some fat midwits marxists from reddit and trannies nazbols jumping in and just acting butthurt.
>>23540787You know what destroys solidarity? Force. If it ain't voluntary, it ain't solidarity.
>>23541500I'm a skinny fat trans who never worked, I don't know that you mean by force, so just end yourself incel
>>23541051No I just don't like shitty authors :)
>>23540787>Rand requires weird and stupid definitions of "selfish"Her definition is dead simple. The colloquial use of "selfish" causes all sorts of confusion, since it covers contradictory meanings.
Ayn Rand made me realise that R*dditors and Christians are essentially the same, they use the same tactics and arguments and they are the only two groups who seethe endlessly about Ayn Rand.
>>23542195Seething about Atlas Shrugged online was the favorite pastime of the 90s/00s parasitic classes.
>>23542285I find it ironic that the people that seethe the most about the elites are also the same ones that read Atlas Shrugged and go "Ah yes, a society ran entirely by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, obviously that's the way to do things!". I mean it's not really ironic, because anybody who reads Atlas Shrugged and likes it is either a literal retard, or a child.
>>23542182Her definition is simple, the problem is that it immediately leads to paradoxes of behavior that she can't explain under an interview without sounding like a sophist retard
Never read a philosophy book by woman. Everytime I go to a used bookstore the author most available is Ayn Rand. So why should I give this bitch a shot?
>>23542308>paradoxes of behaviorlike what?
The most functional societies are homogeneous. The strength of group cohesion reinforces the individual's efforts and enables natural cooperation and effort. Rand's objectivism is at best a cope for living in a society that lacks homogeneity. At worst it's a subversion of any effort at forming homogeneous societies because group cohesion is supposed to be replaced with the forced anti-social anti-human idea of selfish interest. Human beings have been forming tribes of like minded individuals for a very long time. This is how societies and cultures developed and strengthened. True progress is made when the individual feels there is a greater whole they are a part of. Something worth putting in an effort in. With the twisted theories of her books, everyone is atomized and alone and only come together because there is something to gain for themselves and ultimately everything is done for the self. This works well in the overly drawn out novels that masturbate to this philosophy but doesn't translate well to human life or human nature.
>>23540667I read about half of The Fountainhead before getting bored and dropping it. Rand isn't a very good fiction authour and I wasn't sold on Objectivism, it's a good way to explain WHY people do things but doesn't explain what they ought to do which makes the philosophy feel incomplete.
>>23542647>everyone is atomized and aloneCan someone explain why this is always said? I don't get how individualism leads to "atomization", except by word association.
>>23542725It preaches the self must come above all else in this autistic hierarchical pseudo reality. This reality believes people are not born hardwired to associate with others like themselves based on primitive characteristics. Instead they are absorbed in themselves so completely and are obsessed with their profession. The only time they can associate with others is when they are furthering their self obsessed reality thus atomized. Roark is textbook autistic. Not that I think it's a real disease anyway but that's another topic.
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