Rand is ridiculous as a "philosopher" and her politics are as abhorrent as they are/were incoherent - the reason she "clicked" when she did and endures now is because (like a lot of batshit narcissists processing trauma via fiction) she was a compelling writer...
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Replying to @BobChipman_1981 @BootlegGirl
i stand by that atlas and fountainhead are tapping into a very real thing when it comes to the villains. She just seems to think conservative cultism is called socialism
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Replying to @Plutoburns @BobChipman_1981
Yeah the villains of Atlas, the big ones, are actually awful capitalists, she just papers it with a bunch of thin prejudicial representations of socialism
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Anyways, excited to see a potential VP candidate who acknowledges the value of fantasies about kinky sex with multiple CEOs while making TRAIIIINS, concerned the Ant Rights book is a path also being a Steve Universe fan ;)
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(in 50 years I fear we will see how Steven Universe was a far more dangerous work than Atlas Shrugged ever was ;) ) (I'm half joking but only half)
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I have an ongoing vendetta against it for promoting the kind of"anyone can be redeemed and in fact we are obliged to sacrifice ourselves to redeem our abusers"narrative pushed by people like Pete Graveyard IRL,and also having a pirate ship helmed by Ashly Burch but never using it
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Glides and
Admittedly the conclusion show, Steven Universe Future, which is technically a separate thing, turns the whole thing into a deeply traumatic deconstruction of the former issue which goes some ways to make up for things, but I still worry it's poisoned a fanbase for a generation
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Glides and
Steven constantly forgiving everyone and never standing up for himself and what he wants eventually drives him mad and almost destroys the whole world!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Glides and
Right, and Luke could forgive his genocidal father but caused his genocidal nephew bc he just couldn't forgive anymore. But these stories had already delivered the original message before they subverted them
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Yeah both TLJ and Steven Universe Future are about the idea that the biggest lie of a happy ending is the idea of an ending Coming back to our older protagonist who finally breaks because "I thought this shit was OVER"
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