/lit/ - Literature

>>19457945
>>19458384

I like Ayn Rand because all her ideas are completely wrong. No need to waste time separating good and bad. In fact you can just believe the exact opposite of everything she says and will be well off.

>not only single-handedly solves philosophy, economics, psychology and sociology without even needing to carry out any study or research about these topics, but does so through excellent polished prose
Dare I say based?

>>17025376

>is right about everything

>btfo /lit/

Should I read Ayn Rand?

I love Ayn Rand but what is it with all the kinky lengthy sex scenes in Atlas Shrugged? It feels like I'm reading female-oriented softcore BDSM porn.The worst part is that all I can think about is picrelated writing it, her granny pussy wet, as she stares at me through the book, somehow knowing she got me semi-erect all those years in the future. Horrible experience, rest of the book is great though.

>Just do what's in your self interest bro
Going Socialist would be in 99.99999% of everyone's self interest so why was she against Socialism?

When I was young I read everything by Ayn Rand and was devoted to her ideas. Then I became more mature, got a college education, traveled the world and, having grown up, I set aside those simple, childish ideas, realizing that the world is a much more complex place. Her ideas grow out of her anger at what she lost resulting from the revolutions of 1917 in Russia. If you read her non-fiction her shrill anger and hate are quite evident. For someone who champions something called "Objectivism" she was not very objective. Reason is a tool that can be used to justify all sorts of atrocities. It also depends on the premises that you start out with. If you reason from false premises you will not make any sense as Ayn Rand does fail to make sense, except within the fictional world and false premises contained in her limited thinking. She paints a pretty picture in her novels for the gullible and foolish. See also how in her non-fiction she uses her fictional character's dialogue as "evidence" for her ideas. Such self referencing is not evidence of anything except narcissism.
I find it interesting that those who never outgrew her tend to think of themselves as misunderstood geniuses.

What the fuck was her problem?