Is he right?
>>7702179
>*Political view that I don't like* is what angsty teenagers think. Grow the fuck up.
>*Political view that I currently have* is the only choice for mature adults like me!
>>7702184
You can be the biggest ancap or whatever and Ayn Rand is still terrible.
>>7702192
This.
Did she write in English? Either the translation I was reading is absolutely terrible or she should have been writing in Russian.
>>7702184
This.
The "I'm just going to call your opinion/ taste immature, something only a teenage would say/like, and something that you'll get over when you mature" argument is really ironically unironic in an ironic way.
Do the people who say this shit seriously not see it?????
>>7702203
>ironically unironic
That's pretty much the height of redundancy right there. That phrase cancels itself out. "hurr look at me guise how many times can I say ironic am I quirky yet xD"
>implying you agree with a philosophy book you read.
>implying everyone should not read the most dominant socioeconomic philosophy of capitalism for the last 70 years
I feel like the type of people who poopoo rand would ask what is the point of reading spinoza
>>7702220
This post was the height of redundancy. Or maybe just dunce.
It's even ironic
>>7702203
Yea, usually the case, it just happens to be absolutely true with Ayn Rand. :3
>>>/agriculture/
I think generally Ayn Rand is a YA author but its a joke anyway poking fun that most of the fans are young.
>>7702240
This. /lit/ is shite. Why would we know about corn?
>>7702184
you're an Anarchist, amirite?
>>7702541
>anarchists
>liking ayn rand
>ayn rand
>liking anarchists
>>7702225
>poopoo
>POOPOO
>>7702196
She wrote in English. Even without translation meming, she's terrible. It's not just the prose that's bad. The entire book is one long tirade spread out over different characters/mouthpieces. Her characters are cut-outs. Her plot reads like a thriller. She doesn't even try to obscure her ideology. The book ends with a 60-page monologue recap of itself.
>>7702225
m90, even the capitalists are laughing at you if you think this.
>>7702664
I have a soft spot for The Fountainhead but her prose is fucking terrible and her ideology can be summarized by saying she was an expat who was so butthurt about communism that she wrote long, autistic treatises on romantic individualism and egoism. Realizing communism is shit is fine but she went full autist. She is like someone who read Stirner and just didn't get it.
I also find it hilarious that she was good friends with Nabokov's younger sister and would spend time in their mansion when Nabokov was a huge suppprter of the monarchy.
>>7702179
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
Of course this quote does not pertain to neoliberals who seek to censor and shame anyone who even dares touching another philosophy.
They are scum. Every last one of them. Subhuman filth.
>>7702934
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>>7702945
whoops/ didnt read
>>7702934
you are mad online
>>7702945
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>>7702956
Scum. Subhuman filth.
>>7702959
edge
>>7702963You got me there
>>7702934
>neoliberals
>censoring a neoliberal writer
hmmm...
>>7702983
>>7702203
>really ironically unironic in an ironic way
I cringed
did anyone said corn
>>7703456
She considers herself both a novelist and a philosopher equally, but her novels just prop up her philosophy, and her philosophy is terrible.
The woman made it abundantly clear throughout her career that her philosophy came "out of her own mind", and wasn't based on the work of any of her priors. IMO this was a nice aesthetic touch, since it aligned her thought process with her view of the ideal form of capitalism. It meant, however, that all of her arguments are predated by their own rebuttals. Absolute shit.
>>7703485
>the reflection
he's looking at a upside down monitor
>>7703785
That would mean his glasses are concave, not convex.
>>7703456
I came. I saw. I popped corn.
>>7702225
>poopoo
...
>>7702934
You don't even know what a neoliberal is
>>7703785
American education
>>7702179
it's so lazy and shit when any form of comedy is used to promote or denounce a viewpoint without any subtlety, or actual joke.
>>7702179
So correct that it's not clever. Rand is such a common adolescent phase that making fun of it is, "punching down," and therefore bad comedy.
