/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10084454]

This book is relevant now more than ever.

[Anonymous No.10084758]

>>10084454
Oh is it your 16th birthday? Happy birthday OP

[Anonymous No.10084760]

>>10084454
*tips fedora*
this book makes me euphoric

[Anonymous No.10084762]

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[Anonymous No.10084890]

>>10084454
>ethical egoism
>ever relevant
Pick one

[Anonymous No.10084893]

>>10084758

Can't wait to read me some Clockwork Orange!

[Anonymous No.10086003]

>>10084454
You all might not like it but OP's picture is what peak performance looks like.

[Anonymous No.10086016]

They never learn. It has grown more powerful since the 50's precisely because the people who don't agree with it simply spout derision and disregard its influence. Reminds me of the Trump presidential campaign.

Disagreeing with its ideas is reasonable, but outright ignoring it is stupidity, since it already permeates our culture.

[K No.10086060]

Isn't that scientology sci-fi?

[Anonymous No.10086153]

>>10084454
Please explain why

[Anonymous No.10086172]

>this book is relevant now more than ever

[Anonymous No.10086177]

>>10086172
Two Minutes Hate is too real in 2017

fuck this gay earth

[Anonymous No.10086184]

>this book is an elephant now more than ever

[Anonymous No.10086192]

>>10084454
I see what you mean, OP. Allow me to elaborate.

Trump is the embodiment of Wesley Mouch, corrupting the ability of the individual through bearocracy and opaque rhetoric.

Hilary Clinton is Dagney, an immaculately honest and hard working woman who is never given the respect she deserves. Her big business alliances are founded in freedom and were hard cultivated yet people consistently demean her and undermine her efforts.

Meanwhile, science and philosophy are being degraded by public intellectuals (Jordan Peterson and Co.) as the American economy continues to fall into ruin. The time is soon coming when the successful will have to reestablish society and leave the looters to destroy one another through their foolish barbarian means.

How come people don't see it? It's so black and white, but as usual OP it boils down to the willingness to succeed overcoming denial.

[Anonymous No.10086206]

>>10084454
>>10086192

Just kidding, you've been cucked by another author's idealist half-baked philosophy. Get off your phone and pay attention to your highschool teacher. When you go home, instead of hanging out with friends and smoking pot like you usually do, try sitting down and reading a book that contains some actual philosophical and literary merit.

[Anonymous No.10086211]

>>10086016
Case in point.
>>10086206

[Anonymous No.10086224]

>>10086184
I want this exact version

[Anonymous No.10086239]

>>10086184
>>10086224
Is it all three volumes in a single binding?

[Anonymous No.10086255]

>>10086211
It contains glimmers of truth. There, I said it. But championing it as the Bible of political philosophy and spamming this board with pictures of the ugly bitch who wrote this book proclaiming "THE END IS NIGH" is misguided paranoia.

This book is for people who can't be bothered to read real texts on poli-sci/poli-psych. Have you tried author in pic related?

[Anonymous No.10086268]

*shrugs*

[Anonymous No.10086668]

>>10086255
I'm not championing anything. Just stating hard facts. Atlas Shrugged still sees substantial yearly sales and people like Alan Greenspan explicitly cite its influence. Keep denying its relevance if you wish.

[Anonymous No.10086679]

It essentially runs the United States currently (Trump administration). People denying the books merit and influence are ignorant!

[Anonymous No.10086680]

>americlaps thinking their literature is relevant

[Anonymous No.10087999]

>>10086255
It's such a fucking chore to read. Like 2/3 of it should have been cut at the very least.

[Anonymous No.10088006]

>>10086680
It is for the U.S.

[Anonymous No.10088019]

>>10084454
>tfw you realize that it unironically is

[Anonymous No.10088241]

>>10084454

[Anonymous No.10088249]

>>10086680
This trash was refuged from your side of the pond.

[Anonymous No.10088509]

>>10088241
That actually is a ridiculous quote

[Anonymous No.10088554]

>/lit/ praises Stirner but shits on Rand even though they are literally the same thing

[Anonymous No.10088640]

>>10088554
>they are literally the same thing

You have either not read stirner or did not understand him. Lrn2 Union of egoists

[Anonymous No.10088650]

>>10088554
no it isnt

[Anonymous No.10088673]

>>10086016
>influence
Apart from some trendy billionaires claiming her here and there to be a source of inspiration (what a convenient intellectual caution she makes, innit?), I don't see how. I mean she didn't come up with capitalism.

[Anonymous No.10088685]

>>10088554
Rand is spooked af mayne
Her metaphysics is basically Christian. It's full of sins and virtues, of the necessity to redeem yourself, and so on.

[Anonymous No.10088836]

>>10086679
I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't read, especially a large boring book like Atlas Shrugged

[Anonymous No.10089694]

>>10086668
>people like Alan Greenspan explicitly cite its influence
Which further proves that her artistic output is the literary equivalent of ass cancer.

[Anonymous No.10089760]

>>10084454
Yeah, as a guide of what not to do

[Anonymous No.10089781]

>>10084454
(((Ayn Rand)))

[Anonymous No.10089786]

>this book is relevant more than ever

[Anonymous No.10089798]

>reading a woman
>reading a Jew
>reading a Jewish woman

you fucked up