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Having never read Ayn Rand, where should I start?

>> No.17896776

>>17896760
Start by becoming a millionaire or a hedge fund manager, otherwise her philosophy is just going to harm you more than help you.

>> No.17896778

>>17896760
Neurotic Jewess.

>> No.17896788

>>17896760
I mean if you really want the rand experience, go ahead and find a copy of anthem.

Anthem is really quite short, but will give you the general feel of rands’s work, if you end up liking her style and view points, pick up one of the longer novels.

>> No.17896795

I've only read Anthem so I dunno why people chimp out over her. I'm guessing she's just the Nickelback of pseud literature, i.e. people have a vague idea they're supposed to shit on her when her name is mentioned but aren't sure why.
So she's too hardline capitalist for some people?

>> No.17896800

>>17896788
Thank you for the only non-asshole response so far.

>> No.17896804

>>17896760
>where should I start?
you shouldn't

>> No.17896812

>>17896795
>she's just the Nickelback of pseud literature
kek this sums it up

>> No.17896817

>>17896795

It’s mostly people being introduced by the plethora of videos describing her philosophy, and how it feeds self love and financial success. The real issue I get from her other books is that the rich and successful are portrayed as more than people, but as a sort of perfect idol of self improvement. Her whole ideology is just an extreme reaction to Bolshevism because of her fathers pharmacy being seized in the revolution.

>> No.17896821

>>17896760
INTRODUCTION TO OBJECTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY

>> No.17896849

>>17896795
Her philosophy tends to be heavily misrepresented by normies (who'll often claim she said pretty much the exact opposite of what she actually said), but the actual philosophy itself is still fairly unimpressive. Good bits and pieces here and there, but not terribly coherent.

>> No.17896858

>>17896795
lol

>> No.17896867

>>17896760
Don’t

>> No.17896869

>>17896760
Fountainhead.

>> No.17896871

>>17896795
No she’s just a garbage author and philosopher.

>> No.17896887

Only read her if you're a materialist liberal atheist Jew.

>> No.17896920
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17896920

>>17896760
The anti-marx?

>> No.17896930

>>17896920
No, that's Nietzsche

>> No.17897495

>>17896760
read The Fountainhead

>> No.17897550

>>17896760
You should start by complaining endlessly about the GUBBERMENT, while being on welfare

>> No.17897567

>>17897550
Inn4 Randfags
>noo that’s totally irrelevant you’re too scared to attack her ideas!!!11!

>> No.17897581

>>17896760
>where should I start?
Don't.

>> No.17898058

>>17897550
>>17897567
>noo that’s totally irrelevant you’re too scared to attack her ideas!!!11!
I mean, it *is* an extremely dumb argument, and attacking her ideas *would* be pretty easy.

>> No.17898115

>>17897550
That's literally my situation.

>> No.17898196

>>17898058
>I mean, it *is* an extremely dumb argument
No it isn’t, proclaimed preferences mean jackshit without revealed preferences

>> No.17898236

>>17898196
If you think the state is taxing you unjustly, taking back some of that money through whatever program seems perfectly reasonable.

>> No.17898263

>>17898236
Not if you spend your whole life railing against government hand outs. You don’t get to not be an immense hypocrite when you happen to benefit from them

>> No.17898307

>>17898263
But in that case it wouldn't be a handout, it would be the return of stolen money.
Not that this is actually interesting, I'm more interested in the ideas, e.g. how Objectivists insist on free will but also pure materialism, which is a pretty daring combo. Or trying to keep around tabula rasa in the 20th century.