/lit/ - Literature

>>11039834
What are you talking about? Rand didn't want a stateless society ruled by the workers at all. She said the state was absolutely necessary to enforce contracts as well as protecting both private property and individual rights.

Rand is dismissed because people want to continue wielding the power of altruism to sacrifice others on the altar of their own corruption.

>>10559035
>you'll never rape and murder nubile Ayn Rand
jdimsa

Question one: What's the point of starting with the Greeks if Ayn Rand is just going to BTFO all of it?

Question two: Where can I find literary criticism/serious essays about books online?

>leftist
>decide, why not, give Atlas Shrugged a whirl
not bad tbhwyfam

blasting through it pretty quickly and the writing isn't too bad. The only issue I have is its not nearly as "selfish" as I thought it'd be. I'd honestly prefer if it's moral was genuinely "fuck you all, I got mine".

Did Ayn Rand have a rape fetish? She got really in depth when Howard fucked Dominique for the first time.

Could Objectivsm be considered almost the complete opposite of Marxism? Or are there some areas where Rand and Marx agree?

Why was she wrong again? Present it to me without ad-hominem etcetera, you faggots.

Why was Ayn Rand so obsessed with the concept of objective reality? Is that really necessary for her love of free market capitalism?

Looking to order one of her books, but my attention span is quite shitty, so I don't wanna start off with "Atlas Shrugged" (1000 pages).

"Fountainhead" is also quite long (700 pages).

"Anthem" is quite short (80 pages), can anyone recommend it?

What about "We, the Living" (500 pages)?

boy she ugly

Ayn Rand seems to be, continually, the most hated author in academia. And why is that? I think it's because she reveals a very bitter truth about the world: that most human beings are unexceptional and replaceable. For someone like me, I actually find this kind of liberating, the general unimportant of us all, but I think most people find this very offensive; they want to feel important. But in true free marker capitalism, society's great innovations and achievements are done by a small number of people. Most people are not essential. The lower you go on the labor chain, the more replaceable you are. Not necessarily anything wrong with that, but most people find this hard to swallow.

>20-year-old Ayn Rand walks into your room and greets you with a snide remark and playful jab. You are sitting at your desk, as you often are.
>You give Ayn Rand a look that could be described with four or five "-ly" adverbs.
>Ayn Rand is very bitchy, to which you react with stunned silence. Ayn Rand patronizingly asks whether the proverbial cat has your tongue, and calls you "darling."
>Ayn Rand takes a moment to fill your mouth with her tongue, while holding your head. She appears to be in control.
>Suddenly, you prove her control by only managing a one word reply: "Ayn.."
>Ayn grabs your nuts in her bony fist, and you gasp.
>Ayn spends 16 minutes explaining objectivism to you, never releasing your scrotum. She quotes the Bible but you're not sure you understand the reference.
>Ayn becomes angry that you haven't invented anything yet.
>Ayn laughs and forces you to orally service her until you invent something.

I'm considering reading Atlas Shrugged. Would I be wasting my time?

I can't help it. I don't even like objectivism.

>>7960394
Just imagine the scene. You bring back this lovely woman from the bar. She's more drunk than you, but you're still a bit hazy and the font door lock proved a worthy opponent. As the bolts slide back you go "ta daa!" and invite your female colleague/friend/hookup into the dark appartment. Something smells slightly musty but you have to know it to smell it and her mind isn't on that at the present. The blond laughing girl's mind is on your pants and so are her hands. The both of you struggle back and forth to undress each other and you close the appartment door with your foot. Your conquest asks "where's your room" and you grab her face and kiss it fiercely, and then suddenly grab her in one sweeping motion and carry her caveman style to your double bed in the next room.
The bed is slightly raised, but other than that it's a perfectly normal bed.
Under the bed, silent, naked, aroused but restrained, lies Ayn Rand. You tied her up as you do on friday nights, locked her chastity belt and secured the restraints on her four limbs plus shoulder straps to stop her from thrashing. She has laid for three hours in the silent dark breathing in the musty smell of the mattress's underside, waiting for you and another female to come and fuck on top of the bed while she listens, gagged and frustrated. Sometimes you two get so wild on top that the mattress pushes on her face and it's all she has to do to stop from crying out in sexual anguish, from hearing tonight's woman's moans and giggles. The woman you're fucking is totally oblivious to the fact that Ayn is splayed out underneath there. Tomorrow she will dress, you will both pinken up and avoid eye contact over an awkward breakfast, and then she will leave.
When the door closes behind her you will slowly go back to the bedroom, lift up the mattress according to the hebdomadarian ceremony and remove her warm metal belt. Here eyes, always the same at this point, will bulge at you. You will bring her to the edge of her pleasure, again and again, always never going past it, her long legs struggling and struggling to support the orgasm she cannot afford. When the night's sweat is washed off Ayn's body by a new tide of sweat, at the peak of her screaming desire, you will re-clasp her belt, ignoring her muffled pleas and prayers, and click closed the silvery padlock. Then you will untie her flushed limbs from her nightly torture bed and ungag her red mouth, and she, humbled, will start cleaning up the appartment while you read Infinite Jest.

>>7951877
>tfw no qt3.14 objectivist gf

I always hear talking about atlas shrugged, actually more than anything it's always the same context I see it mentioned:

>he read atlas shrugged
And I still didn't get if it's bad, good or just a fucking meme.
The question came up because somebody suggested me Fountainhead and I was wondering if you guys have any thoughts to share on it and the author.