Yes and what Rand made up was awful The ideal she had in her mind that Hickman represented of someone "born to rule" is horrid horseshit Like, we don't know what was going on in the real Hickman's head but what she made up was this worst case scenario that she idealized
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
In reality, Hickman argued an insanity defense in his trial, saying he didn't even know what he was doing when he was doing it and "an angel" took possession of him and made him kill the girl
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
I think this was bullshit, as did the jury, as did Rand But if it were true, then it would've been a reason to show mercy, because it would be less bad than if he decided to kill the girl because he was Angry at Society or whatever garbage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Ayn Rand takes it as read that he was lying about the angels possessing him and that he was lying about converting to Catholicism and being filled with remorse after his sentencing, that it was all lies to try to get acquitted or else pull for a pardon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
And she finds this ADMIRABLE She likes the stupid Joker "I did it for the lulz, I did it cause I don't care, I did it to punish the world for not recognizing I'm special" motive She'd be DISAPPOINTED if the real Hickman really was crazy, and then really was sorry
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jetsharks and
Who’s reading things into what now? Careful. You might be projecting.
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Replying to @financebroseph @jetsharks and
I'm not "reading into" anything my dude, she waxes quite lyrical about her idea of the imaginary Hickman's righteous contempt for the boring middle class life he was forced to livepic.twitter.com/dSlUtsQkcM
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jetsharks and
Include the full context or you are being dishonest:pic.twitter.com/qxlPcTeZyI
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Replying to @financebroseph @jetsharks and
Yes I just said that I am in fact saying Rand's imaginary Hickman, her "ideal" of this Nietzschean Ubermensch, is in fact the worst possible person in the world And that it's actually possible the real Hickman who would've "disappointed" her wasn't quite that bad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jetsharks and
I don’t think it has any bearing. She was “psychologizing” him, which is something she warned against as entirely unreliable for anything other than character development in her later writings. Anything he did after his usefulness as a prop ended likely wouldn’t have mattered.
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Okay My point is even if Hickman weren't real and no murder happened in real life, her fictional construct around it is deeply fucked - although the fact that one DID happen and Rand wasn't at all interested, even perfunctorily, in the victim or her family is also fucked
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Her whole ideal of a "truly free man" is inherently and completely fucked The fact that in real life she developed it while getting gooey over an actual factual child murderer just illustrates that fact, but the fact stands on its own
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Just like the demonstration of this fact we're all carefully talking around, that someone invoked Rand to justify her absurd, embarrassing crush on a piece of shit whose only accomplishment in life was jacking up the prices on desperately needed drugs
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