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by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/24/2018, 6:53pm PDT |
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Cretinous Reprobate wrote:
Still, I'd like to hear Paul's view of the character given his own philosophical slant since he mentioned Rand.
My understanding is that The Locust, although positioned to us as corrupt or villainous, should be considered more than halfway a hero by objectivist standards.
No, the Locust is not a hero at all.
The whole point of The Locust - and his name - is to point out something that is the worst of the worst, a pure consumer with no redeeming characteristics except by accident, e.g. he forces a plane to crash because he's insured 90% of the 400 passengers and will collect over $200 million but coincidentally one of the passengers killed on the plane was a man who was about to blow up a series of apartment buildings to kill 1,685 people.
Consider The Locust to be the retail quantity, individual user of anything to get anything he wants, as compared to Star Trek's The Borg to be the same thing on hyper-steroids, and they commit evil in wholesale quantities by hundreds, thousands, millions or billions of drones. |
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