/lit/ - Literature

Goddess

>>1163850
>>1163869
Guys, nobody is begging.
Taking advantage of an opportunity to get free shit is hardly a bad thing.

Pic related: it's you guys

OP I think we need to have a talk.

This broad wrote a lot about the worst kind of dystopias - where no one pulls their own weight and society becomes a nameless clump and welfare wing of the state.

I was reading The Fountainhead, when I came across this interesting passage;

>"She gathered handfuls of glass off the floor, and poured it over her lap, her hair. She took a sharp splinter and slashed her legs, her arms. What she felt was not pain. She saw blood shooting out of her arm, down onto her lap, she did not want to stop, she was free. She did not know if she had cut an artery. She felt so light."


Rand confirmed for emo. That's an actual quote from the book, not trolling. Though I suppose any Rand post is a troll post.

oh hai
just me being more ALPHA than you will ever be

Hey guys, can't we all be friends...?

get's my motorboat running

>>1077754
Don't forget me. I'm the Elaine, Huxley is Kramar..

I don't know who Orwell and Zamyatin should be. Who should be Jerry and who should be George?

>>1014173
>>1014181
>>1014199
"In view of what they hear from the experts, the people cannot be blamed for their ignorance and their helpless confusion. If an average housewife struggles with her incomprehensibly shrinking budget and sees a tycoon in a resplendent limousine, she might well think that just one of his diamond cuff links would solve all her problems. She has no way of knowing that if all the personal luxuries of all the tycoons were expropriated, it would not feed her family—and millions of other, similar families—for one week; and that the entire country would starve on the first morning of the week to follow . . . . How would she know it, if all the voices she hears are telling her that we must soak the rich?"

"No one tells her that higher taxes imposed on the rich (and the semi-rich) will not come out of their consumption expenditures, but out of their investment capital (i.e., their savings); that such taxes will mean less investment, i.e., less production, fewer jobs, higher prices for scarcer goods; and that by the time the rich have to lower their standard of living, hers will be gone, along with her savings and her husband’s job—and no power in the world (no economic power) will be able to revive the dead industries (there will be no such power left)."

>>1003814
Yeah man, eventually we all grow up and become real, Objectivist men.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AynRand

Ayn Rand

>>1002089

O RLY

rand get

This should of been OP's pic.

>>938402
oh yeah son, i see that rand in there. if i had money i would totally buy this for you, just for the trolling potential. we'll probably have a good shitstorm on our hands anyways.

don't forget me!

Disregarding her book, what is wrong with Rand's philosophy of objectivity?

>>920346

this.

Why do you guys hate me so much?

Seriously, though, why all the negativity about Rand?

Don't mind me, just being the most important philosopher of the 20th century.

I'll get you little shits.

>reading The Fountainhead
>my economics professor asks me which class I'm reading it for
>I tell him I'm an Objectivist
>he fails me
>I go on to make millions, he dies in a gutter