Comments on: SERIOUSLY, FUCK AYN RAND

By: Deion F.

Deion F. — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:34:51 +0000

The funniest thing about "Going Galt" is that you need Producers for this world to survive. But in Reality you need the workers..
That is why I do not follow her ideology.

By: Adam Mann

Adam Mann — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:43:19 +0000

You guys are bunch of knuckleheads. Last I checked this book is sold under fiction or classics along with Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Brave New World, 1984, and even John Grisham books, etc.
There are so many farfetched actions and thoughts in this book and Rands thinking, but at the same time there is a certain amount of genius that speaks to many generations. People who are going to take this philosophy and book 100% literally (or any book in print for that matter) and allow this to be their religion are as warped as people who take the Bible 100% literally and follow it as such.
People need to learn to take kernels of truth from different things and form their own beliefs and values and ideas.
Lighten the fuck up.

By: YoucanCallmeTim

YoucanCallmeTim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:12:47 +0000

Your biggest mistake was thinking that true objectivist values are the same at all to modern neo-conservatives, and while some ideals are said to be shared the truth is that no political party in the mainstream even comes close to holding the values that rand outlines. Now seriously if you had written and actual structured argument with researched points id be inclined to at least respect you but what you have done is exactly what you condemn: buy in to immature "college" ideals. You think that you have to buy into one of the major parties and do everything that they ask but seriously its like choosing between the Nazis and the Soviets, no option is good. Both parties seek control over the people, one just wants your mind a little more and the other wants your money a little more. Now im not going to pretend that rand doesnt want control over my mind at least in part, but the purpose is that she has seen what has happen to political parties when they decide to compromise: they get diluted ideals and strat trying to ACTUALLY control people, rand wants no more then your full commitment or none of it, if you dont like her philosophy fine, but get the fuck out of the way. In closing, re-look and try to be honest rather then a left wing fanboy. btw im willing to respond to other arguments if an educated debate is in order.

By: I can haz objectivizm?

I can haz objectivizm? — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:22:04 +0000

I feel like Ayn Rand just wanted to justify the fact that she understood her role in the world as inherently unproductive; yet, she wanted to continue down this unproductive path, and thus wrote shitty books as a means to that end. Hypocritical at best, douchebaggy at its worst. It's funny when people criticize academia for being neo-Marxist institutions churning out brainless workers- Ayn Rand got a degree, no? Or was she just special enough to get past all their mental gymnastics? Btw, I like Daniel Quinn's philideology more, as my subjective auto-fellatio. We'll never get out of this life alive, anyways. Let's just play nice.

By: Laval_Mosley

Laval_Mosley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:38:02 +0000

great post. it's ridiculous to hear people in the comments defend the book's relevancy by saying that they're being unfairly taxed by the unproductive. sadly the truth is that we're all unproductive in america, we don't do shit, we make our money off of services and derivatives, we don't produce we don't export we don't do a damn thing, so to say you're being taxed by the unproductive is horse shit, yes all of that shit needs to be fixed, but guess what? that isn't going to be fixed by individuals or the free market, it's got to be done by the government.

By: Joker

Joker — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:00:26 +0000

The weird thing about objectivism, at least as Rand put it, it requires either magic or such an extreme degree of mechanization that they can do without large chunks of the population. If memory serves they even had to sabotage the world around them in terms of damaging transport and infrastructure to ensure the downfall of the civilization they opposed.

That and it's the 'masses' that could really doom us if they 'Go Galt' if the people who grow and produce food, collect garbage, and maintain machines all did civilization would start having trouble damn quick.

By: dco

dco — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:01:21 +0000

The main protagonist of the fountain head rapes a stranger and the protagonist of atlas shrugged kills a stranger. I think Ayn Rand wrote some interesting literature but her philosophy is flawed as fuck, where are the ethics! plus her philosophy was nothing original and she was a cold hearted idiot bitch.

By: Arthur Dent

Arthur Dent — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:39:51 +0000

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:27:31 +0000

SERIOUSLY, FUCK THIS RANT

You idea that being an libertarian is due to peoples lack of care for others and is bred of out pure selfishness is fabricated and unwarranted. If anything the liberals who are so self indulgent they think the government should take care of people because they know they will never go out of their way to, is much closer to reality. Or the republicans who try to take away personal freedoms just because it fits on their moral schedule, that seems a bit more selfish than a person who believes in individual responsibility both financially and socially.

Libertarianism is not saying fuck everybody else I just want to take care of myself. Look how much money Americans have donated to Haiti over the past month. People do have care for each other and are willing to lend a hand especially in times of need. The problem with government is that it is extremely inefficient, it takes away incentives for people to act in their own best interest, and they limit personal freedoms.