/lit/ - Literature

>>11664176
You have to understand her background in order to understand why She was so paranoid on the state.

>>11664183
This

>>11664183
And what of her extreme materialism and complete denial of God and the spirit?

>>11664220
She was a jew, It is in her DNA.

>>11664220
Tendency towards edgy public behavior

>>11664176
She was a woman and therefore inferior by default. She put a lot of this to her writing.

>>11664232
Huh I thought she was just Russian. Apparently she was Russian-Jewish. Well I guess that explains why she was so ugly.

>>11664176
She was cult leader like L Ron Hubbard.

>>11664232
Half of the time you guys say that Jews are materialist atheists. The other half of the time you say that Jews are Satanic Luciferian neo-Caananites. Which is it?

>weehhhh uncle vlad took my things away because i didn't want to share

>>11664176
Communism fucked up her home land to the extent that her literature and philosophy is a complete reaction opposite to it.

Minimal state with Capitalism rather than an Communistic absolute state

>>11664257
Both, cognitive dissonance is a thing after all. Jokes asides, I just said it because I simply did not have answer for his question>>11664220

Maybe She was unable to find a god in such a horrible period of time and place. Although I remember reading her biography and It seemed to me that the parents were not very religious either.

>>11664257
Those are the same

>>11664176
She was an edgy entitled NEET.

>At the university she was introduced to the writings of Aristotle and Plato,[20] who would be her greatest influence and counter-influence, respectively.[21] She also studied the philosophical works of Friedrich Nietzsche.
>muh Greeks
>muh Nyetche
This would seem to be the issue.

>>11664220
Rand explicitly denounces blind materialism

>>11664290
Rand is literally just nihilist Aristotle. There is absolutely nothing more to her. She's not complex, but she's not a hack, either. Very simple philosophy.

>>11664274
How is atheism the same as worshipping Baal and Moloch and making human sacrifices to them

>>11664290
There is literally nothing wrong with Plato.

>>11664264
this, but unironically

>>11664290
Anyone who styles Plato as a counter to Aristotle is a pleb, guaranteed

>>11664577
Or Aristotle.

She’s just a pleb

I thought we the living was good but her other works are not the best

>>11664176
she could have chosen to just continue writing romantic fiction in the style of her hero, victor hugo. but rand decided to keep it real

>>11664176
Nobody gave her a Rand-Job

>>11664243

Russians are Jews. Jews are Russians.

>>11665155
You are wrong. Jews are Semitic invaders. Russians are Indo-European.

>>11664176
>her

>>11664176
Communism and Schizophrenia,

>>11664220
She realized the commies were right about one thing.

>>11664176
The meanie commies took her daddy's fortune. Lil Ayn got angry and sad. Commies are REALLY meanies!