Ayn Rand??

[Anonymous No.8773494]

I've never read a single book because I don't have the attention to span but I'd like to know what this women wrote.

Every time her name is mention everyone gets instantly triggered and attacks her ideas like animals but I can never tell what she actually wrote about.

Help me out??

[Anonymous No.8773499]

>>8773494
trains

[Anonymous No.8773506]

she wrote all those road atlases

[Anonymous No.8773511]

>>8773499
Ayyy. Best Ayn Rand post.

[Anonymous No.8773520]

>triggered
Haha nice me me friend.
I too browse reddit.
also just read the wikipedia article you mong.

[Anonymous No.8773530]

>>8773494
I've only read Anthem which was very nice and the first chapter of Atlas Shrugged that I quited for the time because of the length of the book and because it was too "I'm here to make money bitchesss I'm so awesome!!!".

People here say she's a bad writer and that her philosophy is for edgy special snowflake teenagers, but I can't remember someone actually arguing something other the memeing.

[Anonymous No.8773914]

>>8773494
Basically she advocated ethical egoism, similar to Nietzsche and Max Stirner but instead of rejecting morality she posited self interest as an ethical goal and saw herself more in the tradition of Aristotle. Also was very much in favor of capitalism. To get a good idea of her philosophy and attitude in general, her Playboy interview and the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on her are both good and easy to find.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/
This is also a good resource.

imo she was a bit nuts but no more so than many "respected" philosophers like Sartre. The reaction is because of 1) butthurt leftists being butthurt, 2) her tendency to use provocative language like "the virtue of selfishness" that led people to misconstrue what she was actually saying and 3) her alienating everyone in academia by talking serious shit about every philosopher and movement outside her close-knit circle, often while misunderstanding what she was criticizing.

[Anonymous No.8773933]

>>8773494
She wrote Cloud Atlas

[Anonymous No.8774002]

>>8773530
it's because leftists are retarded an try to discredit her.

[Anonymous No.8774070]

>>8773494

It's pretty apparent her childhood/upbringing affected her literary and philosophical style. Fleeing from the Eastern Bloc she became quite anti-collectivist in her mindset which later took on a big role in her stories with the reoccurring theme of an individual hero must overcome the oppressive collective. Her philosophy is faulty in that sense but not without reason as a critique to the society she grew up in.

[Anonymous No.8775980]

>>8773494
I have read the fountain head. And anthem. I rate her books a 10/10. It's all about a bunch of stuff (as books are) but what caught me was her idea of individualism and virtue in selfishness. Stuff like I take care of my family because I want them or because I love them. Not because traditions or society.

It also kinda talks about some odd thing about how sheep lead sheep into being sheep. Or something similar (in my own words)

[Anonymous No.8775990]

>>8773520
When saying people become triggered, we mean it to insult them.

[Anonymous No.8776009]

>>8773494
Because she is a shit writer, and there are better alternatives.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2012/10/the-unbearable-badness-of-ayn-rand/

[Anonymous No.8776018]

>>8773530
She's been argued down time and time again here, which is why she's never posted. Most of her mistakes come from her basing her economic ideas off of philosophy, not any actual knowledge of how industries work. She also misunderstood Nietzsche by assuming he was in support of master morality.

[Anonymous No.8776040]

>>8773494
>>8776018
This.
So please, stop posting Ayn Rand. Please, just stop. It makes /lit/ seem like a political board of some sort, one that would stop at nothing to make us all the subjects of stupidity and maliciousness.