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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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
Include the full context or you are being dishonest:pic.twitter.com/qxlPcTeZyI
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
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.
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
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
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
The amount of energy you clearly spend hating this woman is more energy that I have put into hating anyone in my whole life. Ok...you do you.
Yeah, but that's...writing a novel. It's doing something that's affirmative. Not just tearing into people. I just don't get it. Like, if you hate Ayn Rand, fine. I don't know why you have to make it a mission to destroy anyone who likes some of her work.
Is she just a novelist who wrote some fun fiction and you're applying the "Let people enjoy things" meme like people do with Twilight or Marvel movies or whatever Or is she a powerful and influential thought leader who's had a great impact on culture and politics in the US
You have to pick one, you don't get to just flit back and forth between these two at your convenience
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