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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

I still cannot believe a novel this terrible inspired a successful movement that was thoroughly endorsed by presidents.

If I had a time machine I would go back in time and publish it, but make sure that it only had a limited release. Never got super big just big enough so that some people had heard of it, and then I would sue Ayn Rand when she published her version. Win easily and announce that I wrote it as a parody, mocking people who think that being overly self reliant and rejecting community is a good way to live, for they are like house cats.. overly dependent on others yet thoroughly convinced of their own independence. "As Ms. Rand demonstrated by stealing my book and claiming it as her own."

Then I'd put a time capsule with the fucking source code to Bioshock 1, 2, and Infinite somewhere to preserve those games in the timeline.

The damage that book has done to this world...

[-] hark@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Really elaborate plan that will probably end up failing because the book, and its author, only got big because it gave greedy bastards an excuse to be so unashamedly greedy. If not this trash then another work of trash.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Ayn Rand did more than write a book, she actually started a movement and even had a fling with L. Ron Hubbard to learn how to properly cult...

She never believed in scientology and thought L. Ron was a great man for running such a successful con.

She also hated religion in general, for she saw it as a form of collective bargaining and hated it for encouraging people to not be selfless.

Rand was a monster

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

She literally said altruism was evil. I mean what the ever-living fuck?

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Win easily and announce that I wrote it as a parody, mocking people

Then watch it backfire horribly. Conservatives (including those who call themselves libertarian) are blind to satire. You might remember that the_donald was satirical at the start. So was the game Monopoly.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah but Ayn Rand's reputation would be ruined and she would never have started "Objectivisim"

"The question isn't if I am allowed to do these things, but rather who is going to stop me?" - Ayn Rand, not even pretending she isn't the villain.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That question probably hit different in 1955 than it did in 2005

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I mean they still had comic book villains back then, didn't they?

[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There has always been a market for telling people what they want to hear.

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