Any good art about people not being condescending enough to dumb people & becoming too drained to function?
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Yeah, thought of that. Realized the genre I'm looking for is "military officer memoirs". Boyd was recommended, funny enough.
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ayn rand is the only one i can think of. anything like a sanitized, pured-down, non-ideological ayn rand? hmm maybe there is none
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It's more a side character trope than a load-bearing narrative pillar. The nobody-asked-you-to-be-a-martyr type.
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Sorry, a little too tipsy right now to understand. Is Rand the side character or Boyd? Don't care much about grand narratives, just want examples of hardy people pushing through struggle.
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I feel like there have to be *some* worthwhile narratives focused on protagonists overcoming ideological egalitarianism for some sort of great glory (that's more literary than Rand). Maybe I need to unpack/expand my query more.
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Or possibly the absence of good narratives in that vein is a sign that it's as weak an ideology as the one it's a reaction to.
Not quite fiction but Nietzsche's Zarathustra has shades of what you're looking for
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