/lit/ - Literature

>>13434454
All one really needs from Atlas is John Galt's speech. I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F5nhYo5nx4
Not to say the book is bad, young mary sue Francisco D'Anconia had me rolling my eyes though. Read it afterwards if you become curious about the context the speech occurs in.
This speech contains the profound and aesthetically potent distillations of the irrationalism of the left and traditionalist right ever penned. And no not in some paltry "own the libs" way. Reading/listening to the speech will make you want to punch Zizek and Peterson both on the nose.

>>12898674
Pretty good story on the potency of the ego and individualism. The heroes are written as propelled by a self consistent, inevitable momentum powered by the potency of their rational thinking style (though some fail to identify it in themselves) and the villians are written as hopelessly stagnant in their thinking and crushed by the weight of their own ineptitude and malevolent view of life. If you can stand that sort of archetypical idealism you'll adore this book. If not you'll hate it. Probably akin to the top voted normie review on this goodreads page. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged

The big 3 speeches in this book by 3 of the heroes is why people read this book. They are worth it, though some don't think the long journey is worth it. I did. Curiosity is ingrained in you ever page wanting to know not just what will happen but why they are.

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>>12256275
The biggest meme /lit/ ever peddled was telling me Atlas Shrugged was shit.

>>12170345
I feel ya brother, neither /pol/'s nor r/philosophy's presence here will allow me to discuss Ayn Rand apolitically. Sucks man.
And I know if Objectivism undergoes another period of resurgence in the larger culture leddit will reinstigate another "Rand War" like back in the day.

Furthermore I think it warranted to list Rand's historic achievements as a challenge to those who like to claim Rand it inconsequential as a philosopher.
Rand's *great* historic distinction is that she was the first to discover to what degree the contextuality of concepts matter.
>The Objectivist Theory of Concepts
>solving the "Problem of Universals"
http://www.peikoff.com/opar/universals.htm
>the discovery of the intrinsic/subjective/objective trichotomy
>the formulation of psycho-epistemology
>the identification of several new logical fallacies
[Stolen Concept Fallacy, Package-Deal Fallacy, Floating Abstraction Fallacy, Frozen Abstraction Fallacy (aka Context Dropping Fallacy), Reification of Zero Fallacy (not hers truly but given further philosophic significance by her), Rewriting Reality Fallacy]
>Rand's Razor
>providing LfCap's then lacking philosophic base
>the, not solving, but invalidating of Hume's Is/Ought problem

>>11942631
Unironically Altas Shrugged. Name a speech more iconoclastic than John Galt's Speech. You literally can't.