/lit/ - Literature

you know it

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Uovm-OQ8A
>Daily reminder that Atlas Shrugged is the greatest book ever written.
Prove me wrong moochers.

Yo /lit/. You have 30 seconds to disprove objectivism to me.

One of the greatest books i ever read and /lit/ can go fuck itself.

>muhney

>>4402618
Are you really going to let the opinions of other people dictate your own?

Atlas Shrugged is in my opinion, one of the greatest books ever written. It helped me understand that my life is mine to live - that I do not need to follow any set path which others may want to force upon me. It helped me overcome my jealousy of others, not that I was jealous of everyone I ever met, but that emotion no longer brings that heavy emotion toll it once had. My life is my own, and I am free to live it however I wish, and by acceptance of that principle I cannot force other people to live off my whims either.

Will you get as much out of the novel that I did? Who knows, maybe you will. But the only way to find out is to actually read it for yourself and make your own judgment call. If you think it's shit then that's fine and dandy, just don't let other people shape your opinions on the basis of their own more often than not, less than comprehensive criticisms (ie, IT"S SHIT!).

>Anyone feel like their life is meaningless if they don't do something for the advancement of society?

Oh my

>>4175010
collectivist detected

>implying the scale could handle her power level

>>4053097
The nature of libertarian philosophy takes a certain kind of moral rigor which most people find impossible to live up to. When establishing rules, especially moral rules, their universalization can and most likely will result in the damaging of some or all of a person's personal relationships.

This is especially true with Rand's philosophy, which is not perfect I will admit; Her flaw being her failure to see the root of politics and the state in the family. Even though she did not stress the importance of the family in her works, her philosophy still held severe implications for a persons personal life. By rejecting the legitimacy of superficial authority figures and those who live second-hand lives she takes away any sort of power those people would have over others who come to understand her philosophy. The difficulty of this is that people are propagandized on an incredibly personal level from the moment they are able to comprehend language to obey their parents, to obey their teachers, to obey the state. They are told that it is morally virtuous to give to charity, to help the poor, to donate their time and money for the sake of the 'greater good'. They are told that it is evil to be selfish, and if you are to value yourself over others who have no importance to you, or to which you owe no duty, you are the worst moral criminal.

You see this everywhere in life, people talking about their careers as something they do to benefit society, businessmen who donate and say they are 'giving back', as if what they have isn't there's to begin with.

To break with that kind of propaganda from your youth is incredibly difficult unless you were raised somewhat free of it, or have come to deal with it through some other means. Taking it as a rebellion against authority for rebellions sake is a teenagers folly, those who do this are the ones you'll encounter who'll tell you they loved her when they were younger but 'grew out of it', as if they understood it in the first place. They never uprooted the seeds of corruption that were buried in them in their youth.

One of the best was female

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I see the edgefags out in full force today

>>3700510
Just what exactly did you find so 'bad' about it?

If your bookstore doesn't have a section labeled "Rand", it's pretty much a non-bookstore

At least there's one good book on there

>mfw /lit/ can never make any good critiques of Rand, resorting to ad hominems and red herrings

OP, don't get dissuaded by the plebs on /lit/ who think they're all hot shit. Ayn Rand is a towering intellectual and her writing is some of the most powerful works written in defense of the freedom of the individual. She isn't perfect, her attempted refutation of the is-ought problem doesn't really work, but you don't say the sun produces no light because of a few sunspots.

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You talkin' shit about my waifu?

>>3542322
right on
all you commies suck it

No.