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what's /lit/ opinion on this book?

>> No.3270875

generally positive

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>> No.3270973

GTFO

>> No.3273605

It's a masterpiece everyone should live by. Only through unremorsing backstabbing and unlimited ruthless greed can we build a perfect world.

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>> No.3273665

This thread appears on a daily basis. It rustles my jimmies.
-Redundant objectivism
-Cheesy characters and dialogue
-Way too long

>> No.3274018

it makes sense

>> No.3274065

god tier: Laissez-faire
shit tier: welfare and state capitalism
wtf r u doing tier: communism and the like

>> No.3274113

>>3274065
>babby's first attempt at thought

>> No.3274172

Ayn Rand was laughed out of academia for her lack of precision and rigor. That, and the fact that the Tea Party associates itself with her 'philosophy' makes her books nothing more than toilet paper in a quarter-bound hardcover.

>> No.3274220

>>3274065
>god tier: Laissez-faire
people like you make me want to off myself

>> No.3274223

Is it worth reading just to have done so, to understand its place / hatred for it?

>> No.3274239

Poorly thought through.

So the 'inventives' are being removed from society
>Aren't all people inventive?
>If one person didn't try something it's inevitable that another eventually would

Backstabbing is valuable
>Forgets that people are emotional creatures
>Doesn't value soft power such as trust.

>> No.3274244

>>3270854
I must be Atlas.

>> No.3274253

>>3270854
Max Stirner, Renzo Novatore, and other egoists have done a much better job of representing a philosophy based around individual desire (while recognizing that humans are an interdependent and social species) compared to this sociopath whose ideological idol was a serial killer. (Seriously.)

>> No.3274260

>>3274239
Remember, all Rand wanted was to be fucked violently without consent by a powerful, rich man who does what he wants when he wants. Everything she wrote apart from that was just in order to facilitate her dream.

>> No.3274267

>>3274260
I feel like this actually might be true considering she had such a boner for that serial murderer specifically because he did what he wanted without any regard for the opinions or well-being of others.

>> No.3274268

>>3274253
+1 for an intelligent individualist

>> No.3274633

>>3274253
What's wrong with having a serial killer as your ideological idol?

>> No.3274640

>>3274268

What about that post displays intelligence?

>> No.3274740

>>3274640
Citation as demonstration, establishment and confirmation of a standard theme and its acknowledgement and elucidation. And of course the capacity to see bullshit.

>> No.3274795

>>3274740

>namedropping, aphorisms and a sentence of commentary

>> No.3274845

Whilst the economic ideas are interesting, the ultimate conclusion of the story is the rich/intelligent people chose to deliberately send America back to the stone age.
...and blame the poor.

>> No.3274868

>>3274065
lol try again