• beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    I’ve read it twice, and I agree. The plot amounts to spoiled, rich children take their ball and go home because they’re mad the poors won’t let them strip the world of resources for personal gain. The author makes it clear throughout the text that Dagny, Hank, and Galt are the heros for fucking off to larp as robber barons in the 1880’s.

    As a philosophic text objectivism is naive at best and a cynical justification for authoritarianism at its worst.

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      3 months ago

      Why did you read it a second time?

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        3 months ago

        Because the first time I read it I was a poor and stupid teenager slowly being pulled into an alt-right pipeline. After I figured that out I reread it with a more critical lens for closure.

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          3 months ago

          Fair play. Not many would do that.