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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Replying to @financebroseph @jetsharks and
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 @jetsharks and
Yeah. When she was 23. I guess you missed the memo, but I was a firefighter and competed in MMA throughout my 20s because I figured out in my teenager years that chicks dig danger and violence. It gets a little less pronounced as they age. But 23 year olds? Most definitely
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Even if that were true, I'd be much less judgmental of someone who just admitted they had a problematic kink at that age rather than, as a completely grown-ass middle-aged woman, writing immense doorstopper rants about how only giant assholes are real men
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Could there have been a level of protection? Could Howard Roark and John Galt be self-inserts of Ayn Rand?
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