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Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 1:04pm PST
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 NEW
    Do they other kinds of classified ads for objectivists? by Jerry Whorebach 11/29/2008, 6:11pm PST NEW
        Ray is selling an outboard motor? NT by Coronation 12/02/2008, 12:45pm PST NEW
    Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 12:00pm PST NEW
        Try Murray Rothbard's essay on the Ayn Rand cult for real loopiness by Fortinbras 12/02/2008, 12:45pm PST NEW
        Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 1:04pm PST NEW
            Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/02/2008, 2:09pm PST NEW
                Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 8:52pm PST NEW
            Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 6:32pm PST NEW
                What? by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/02/2008, 7:00pm PST NEW
                    It could be my definition of "neckbeard" is imperfect by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 8:21pm PST NEW
                        Yeah, I was gonna say that, the beard and - yeah NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 8:44pm PST NEW
                        Re: It could be my definition of "neckbeard" is imperfect by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/02/2008, 9:02pm PST NEW
                Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 8:55pm PST NEW
                    The Fountainhead is better written, smaller, and puts across the same point NT by Fortinbras 12/02/2008, 9:03pm PST NEW
                        Also there is a Rush song based on it I think. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/02/2008, 9:38pm PST NEW
                            The Trees? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/02/2008, 10:31pm PST NEW
                                No. :( NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/02/2008, 11:10pm PST NEW
                                    Tom Sawyer? NT by Jerry Whorebach 12/03/2008, 5:09am PST NEW
                                    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 NEW
                    Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Mischief Maker 12/02/2008, 10:15pm PST NEW
                    Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/02/2008, 11:20pm PST NEW
                        dwarf by dwarf 12/03/2008, 12:30am PST NEW
                        Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Mischief Maker 12/03/2008, 7:39am PST NEW
                            Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Bananadine 12/03/2008, 10:24am PST NEW
                            Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Choson 12/03/2008, 11:36am PST NEW
                        semi-colorful characters that behave consistently with their own impossible pers NT by New Caltrops Titlebar 12/03/2008, 9:17am PST NEW
                    Oh okay let me help with that. by Zsenitan 12/03/2008, 9:48am PST NEW
                        Re: Oh okay let me help with that. by Bananadine 12/03/2008, 10:18am PST NEW
                Re: Personal Ads for Objectivists by Choson 12/03/2008, 11:33am PST NEW
 
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