/lit/ - Literature

>>16592504
Well said anon, yes all postmodern theory is like this.
>>16592592
This. I see soccies claim all the time that every negative feature of technology's social effect is a feature of Capitalism itself. So transparent.

>>12870192
Never as Rand represtents a more developed egoism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6gV1MUSXMg
EITHER you have the altruists who could simply maintain their precarious level of stagnation and control or Rand starts to butterfly effect through every institution. Even Paul Ryan, faux-randian that he is, started a kneejerk reaction on reddit causing her be banned from those philosophy and atheism boards.

>>11734840
Ayn Rand's prose is actually the picture of excellence and it is only through misunderstanding her romantic realist style that it is so maligned. Artistic philosophies other than aesthetic naturalism exist chumps.

I thought Rand was the one to truly do that. Tell me more.

>>11200857
That's not Rand

>>11096985
>>11096779
>>11098665
I had made a good reply to you guys but my browser ate it. Just worked up the will to make it again.

The clearest manner in which to understand what she is talking about on the differences betseen the faculties of man and animals is this part from TVOS. This is my favorite peice of her writing of all time and is actually the best way to understand her epistemology from the ground up. Pastebin coming shortly.
Rand identified that their are fundamentally 4 classes of living entity and they are subsumed under these 4 words:
Function (plants and similar organisms)
Sensation (the lower animals)
Perception (the higher animals)
Conception (man)
The 4th class of living entity possesses all 4 of these faculties… the 3rd it's unique faculty + the lower 2, and so on.
https://pastebin.com/XaLszVpM