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by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 1:04pm PST |
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Bananadine wrote:
I tried to follow up on this, since I recently read Atlas Shrugged and Objectivists now qualify as the kind of crazy people I am fascinated by. I signed up at The Atlasphere (as Jonathan Frakes, photo taken from here) and browsed a bunch of profiles but like one of the commenters on the New York Magazine article says most of these people seem pretty normal, except in that they occasionally mention how much they love Howard Roark or hate abstract impressionism, and in that most of them can spell. So, no good opportunities here for a not-especially-mean humorist of my kind. The only really weird thing I could see in the profiles I read is the implication that many people, who superficially seem far more reasonable than a person should have to be in order to discover a bunch of totally stupid things amidst the various good things in Ayn Rand's books, are nonetheless huge Rand fans.
I'm not going to read Atlas Shrugged, because there are a thousand other books I'd like to read first, and the entire objectivist argument seems to be completely retarded, unrealistic, devoid of compassion and almost exclusively held by petulant neckbeards.
That being said, I've never asked this question on a gaming forum, but BioShock is an argument AGAINST objectivism, isn't it? Because a society that tried to implement it went straight to hell, and everyone involved (Andrew Ryan, the first boss who was a plastic surgeon, the child molester that appears later in the game) were demonstrably horrible people, even outside their fourth-grader's understanding of society and culture.
But I thought I read at some point that Ken Levine actually subscribes to the theory of objectivism, which blew me away. I can think of no better argument as to why it would not work than the game he made.
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Personal Ads for Objectivists by Fortinbras 11/29/2008, 2:09pm PST
Do they other kinds of classified ads for objectivists? by Jerry Whorebach 11/29/2008, 6:11pm PST
Ray is selling an outboard motor? NT by Coronation 12/02/2008, 12:45pm PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 12:00pm PST
Try Murray Rothbard's essay on the Ayn Rand cult for real loopiness by Fortinbras 12/02/2008, 12:45pm PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 1:04pm PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/02/2008, 2:09pm PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 8:52pm PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 6:32pm PST
What? by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/02/2008, 7:00pm PST
It could be my definition of "neckbeard" is imperfect by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 8:21pm PST
Yeah, I was gonna say that, the beard and - yeah NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 8:44pm PST
Re: It could be my definition of "neckbeard" is imperfect by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/02/2008, 9:02pm PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 8:55pm PST
The Fountainhead is better written, smaller, and puts across the same point NT by Fortinbras 12/02/2008, 9:03pm PST
Also there is a Rush song based on it I think. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/02/2008, 9:38pm PST
The Trees? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 10:31pm PST
No. :( NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/02/2008, 11:10pm PST
Tom Sawyer? NT by Jerry Whorebach 12/03/2008, 5:09am PST
Well, I give up, *I* can't figure out what The Trees is about /flips keyboard NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/03/2008, 11:42am PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Mischief Maker 12/02/2008, 10:15pm PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 11:20pm PST
dwarf by dwarf 12/03/2008, 12:30am PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Mischief Maker 12/03/2008, 7:39am PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/03/2008, 10:24am PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Choson 12/03/2008, 11:36am PST
semi-colorful characters that behave consistently with their own impossible pers NT by New Caltrops Titlebar 12/03/2008, 9:17am PST
Oh okay let me help with that. by Zsenitan 12/03/2008, 9:48am PST
Re: Oh okay let me help with that. by Bananadine 12/03/2008, 10:18am PST
Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Choson 12/03/2008, 11:33am PST
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