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which book should i read for summer studies?

i've been given the choice of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
or The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

i'm thinking Atlas Shrugged, it looks a lot more interesting and some of Smith's ideas are just stupid, he seems like kind of a commie to me

>> No.1802287

dagny taggart dies at the end

>> No.1802291
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1802291

Ayn Rand is a fascist. Objectivism is stupid. Atlas Shrugged is an impressive example of making a melodrama with paper-thin characters.

Yes I actually read it.

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>>1802291
so you like people telling you what to do and how to live your life?

ok buddy

a man chooses, a slave obeys

>> No.1802315

>>1802303

what if you choose to obey though

>> No.1802317

Is that SEB in the picture, TC?

>> No.1802321

Would you kindly shut the fuck up

>> No.1802331

>>1802285
you should go back to /k/ and take this thread with you

>> No.1802336

>>1802303
That's not what I said. But you've done a good job exemplifying the idiocy of Ayn Rand's lackeys.

I said the book was poorly written and that Ayn Rand's philosophy is a load of horse-hockey.

Did you ever consider that Dagny Taggart went to a school, drove on roads, lived in a house, drove in a car, used traffic lights, stopped at stop signs, wasn't murdered by roaming bands of bloodthirsty ne'er-do-wells?

That's because of society. I knew the book had reached its zenith of stupidity when that pirate with the Swedish name shot down the boat with provisions for starving German refugees and this was supposed to be philosophically justified.

There's a difference between being an individual and being a slave to greed. Objectivism isn't so much like Existentialism as it is like LaVeyanism.