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What does /lit/ think about Ayn Rand?

>> No.5306761

>>5306757
She's a huge Ayn Rand, she's as big as those bloody buildings.

>> No.5306767

>>5306761
But not as big as Orson Welles.

>> No.5306768

she seems like a terrible person and it's awful that anyone takes her seriously

she also has a special place in my heart for being the only writer (and first woman!) to be banned from /lit/

>> No.5306770

>>5306768
> the only writer (and first woman!) to be banned from /lit/
Not anymore. I don't even know whom to blame.

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>> No.5306780

>>5306757
Rape
Hot rape
All the time

>> No.5306787

hating her is the reddit thing to do :)

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>>5306757

>> No.5308568

>>5306787
Reddit hates slavery, mass murder, and rape. Should we not hate those because they do too?

Ayn Rand is pleb central. Her books are full of logical fallacies (begging the question being the most frequently used), contradicting ideas, sexism, and extreme edginess. Plus, her prose is dull, she's a hypocrite, and her 'philosophy' is a cult.

>> No.5308582

>>5306757
Terrible writer, trash philosophy
>glorious October took my daddys property away >: the fucking book, every book

>> No.5309227

Pleb level, poor and inconsistent as an author of philosophy, simply terrible as an author of fiction.

I think the place that her work has in today's society, its objective audience, tells a lot about what kind of a writer she is.

>> No.5309238

She can't write, she can't think. There's no discernible talent.

>> No.5310816

>>5306757
She is only relevant in the US because of "muh laissez-faire capitalism"; she is not a talented writed and isn't even Nozick-tier (yeah, a hack like Nozick is best known and studied in european universities than Rand).
Also, Atlas Shrugged is a book bloated by the anti-russian propaganda during the Cold War.

>> No.5310836

>>5306757
I think that she is bad, as well as not good, also

>> No.5310843
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5310843

Most people hate on Rand without having an inkling of knowledge regarding her philosophy or having read any of her works

Prove me wrong

>> No.5310850

>>5310843
Sure, but those people are correct. Her prose is decent, her characters are atrocious, and her philosophy is probably the worst serious attempt at philosophy I've ever read.

Most people who hate Scientology have not read Dianetics.

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>>5310843

>> No.5310924

>>5310843
Wrong. I've read the Fountainhead and the stuff she's written about Objectivism as regards Selfishness.

It's literally babby's first philosophy, and The Fountainhead is a complete chore to read.