Ayn Rand

>>8940465
>female
>autism
>fuck you
no she wasn't

>>8940465
Because I've suffered severe brain trauma.

>>8940465
the NAP is trash and dissolves morality

>>8940465
Didn't she proudly admit she had only read Aristotle?

The best. The very best, ask anyone who knows, they'll tell you. She's the best.

It'd be an underestimation to say that she had a bit of influence in our current situation.
Trump is probably the man he is today thanks to reading a quick summary of her works.
I wish we could integrate an ayn rand reading club at /pol/ and our bff the_donald.

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>>8940465
Why were her teeth so fucked up? Also
>lolbertarianism

>>8940739
no, she said he was the only philosopher who actually affected her views, or something like that. She's READ everybody, very classically trained in philosophy

>>8940465
Because she was one of god's chosen people. Everything began with the Jews, and Jews own everyone and everything.

Ayn Rand has the fine distinction of possibly being the only person to have ever written more books than she actually read.

Additionally, I consider her to be more of an ideologue than a philosopher, and everything concerning her life and the disintegration of the objectivist movement between Leonard Peikoff and Nathaniel Branden to be eerily similar to the relationship between Lenin and his successors Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin.

>>8940465
Objectivism just rips off dialectical materialism.

I have never read her shitty books, but there has been a lot of quality posts on lit that convinced me there's something to her critique of collectivism. If you're not like the herd they will drag you down.

>>8941996
you don't know her or how much she read. I know at the least she read major philosophers. She says Aristotle was the only one who influenced her, though she seems to appreciate Nietschze in an aesthetic way. She treats Kant as an archnemesis. And I know she mentions being a huge fan of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. And she mentions loving H.L. Mencken, and considers him the greatest living example of her philosophy. And of course she had to read books by other Objectivists. These are just the people I know she's read by mentioning them, quite sure she reads a lot.

People talking about her ignorance of literature and philosophy show their ignorance

>>8940745
>ayn rand
>/pol/
oh, friendo, if only you knew...

>>8940465
>libertarianism
>best in anything
lmao

I tried to read The Fountainhead but found it unreadable. That said, I think there are any number of great film interpretations that could be salvaged from that wreck.

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I think it's a shame that she tried to come up with her own philosophy.

Her books have great things to say about the value of individualism. I found this book very inspiring. However her Objectivist philosophy, is not logically valid.

That said, her emphasis on individualism and selfishness is very important. She had great things to say about self interest and the pitfalls of socialism

Also: that chapter in Atlast Shrugged, where the train is destroyed in the tunnel? That chapter is a masterwork

>>8944314
>However her Objectivist philosophy, is not logically valid.
What makes it illogical?
>Also: that chapter in Atlast Shrugged, where the train is destroyed in the tunnel? That chapter is a masterwork
It's disgusting that you can celebrate the thought of murdering a train full of people.

>>8944328

I didnt' say I celebrated it. The chapter itself is just masterfully written. It's clear Ayn Rand saw the destruction of the train as a tragedy.

>>8944360
I got the impression she believed it was justice to allow those people to die.

>>8944314
I really, really enjoyed the fountainhead. a-am I wrong for that?

>>8944370

I didn't get the impression. I think she just thought the tragedy was caused by the socialist mindset of the populace. It's not that she is glad people are dying, but that she thinks the deaths are caused by the mindset the populace has adopted

>>8944375

Nah. Not that guy, but with her philosophical views aside, Rand had the same drive and focus as Dostoevsky when he was at his best. Every sentence counted, every line of dialogue was meant to go somewhere, and nothing felt like fluff. The Fountainhead is, beyond whatever literary/philosophical merit it does/doesn't have, just a really fun book.

My two pennies, anyway.

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>>8944314

A segment I really liked from the book

>Now take the human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. Will you tell me why, when it comes to a building, you don't want it to look as if it hand any sense or purpose, you want to choke it with trimmings, you want to sacrifice its purpose to its envelope - not knowing even why you want that kind of an envelope? You want it to look like a hybrid beast produced by crossing the bastards of ten different species until you a get a creature without guts, without heart or brain, a creature all pelt, tail, claws and feathers? Why? You must tell me, because I've never been able to understand it.

>>8943077
But the herd appears to be reading her White Russian butthurt-ism.

>>8940465
ayn rand was pretty hot
would definitely hate fuck the money-grubbing kike bitch

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>>8943050
It doesn't even, it is way too simplistic for that. Rand's philosophy is the sort of simple-minded scepticism that can be throttled by Hume.

pic related, I saved it because this shit shows up everytime and it tends to shut those people up.