You joke but she literally just read the Greeks and made the rest up from there
Ayn Rand read Nietzsche and thought to herself, "by Übermensch he must mean someone who owns property and becomes fantastically rich off the labor of their workers."
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This seems mean-spirited of me but I think the wrong philosopher got syphilis.
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She read Plato & concluded that poor people deserve to live in a cave.
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Sounds like Ayn only read that one word of Nietzsche
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I’m surprised to find out that she could read.
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I have a feeling that you would get on really well with
@FrogAlaPeche he is naughtily irreverent too...
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Technically, she might not be wrong. Then again, I'm no philosophy major.
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She's wrong. There's no fair reading or interpretation of Nietzsche that can give you that impression. He's fairly explicit about the concept of the Ubermensch.
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