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 @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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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
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.
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Replying to @jetsharks @arthur_affect and
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.
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Replying to @ChristieSmythe @jetsharks and
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
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ChristieSmythe and
Was Michelangelo just a sculptor who put together a few sculptures and chucked some paint on the Sistine chapel’s ceiling. Look, it’s well established that you are a piece of shit. Even you said so. So I think you should excuse yourself from this conversation.
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Nah we're all pieces of shit and some of us are at least just trying to be self-aware about it That's collectivist slave morality
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