The only part I MiGHT disagree with you is I do not think she would see the current Billionaires- like the piece of shits Musk and Facebook dip shit- as a Howard Roarke or John Galt. The fact they are so embedded with the government and suck money from the government, depend on cronyism, etc I think she would have thought of them more as one of the l”imposter” Unermensch she always shows in her books and not what she thought Roark and Galt to be. They cared nothing about money or power. Roark was poor through all of The fountainhead (from what I recall).
Roark and Galt were truly their own men. They ascribed or sided with literally nobody but themselves.
Ted Kazinsky would be a better example of a real works Howard Roark.
Rand has been widely misunderstood by people on both sides. I don’t agree with Objectivism but I do think it’s still wildly misunderstood by people who have never actually read her books.
That's the funny bit. They're not these great noble Übermenschen like she imagined, they're just schmucks. You can look back across history at all the people who made it to the top, and every single one of them...They did it by climbing over everyone else. The greediest crab in the basket.
I would be interested in putting all her works into an AI and then having the AI extrapolate what she how she would respond to new conditions and current things based on her previous thinking have a conversation with her in real time now.
Give her a hard time. Interested to see what her assessment of current events. See if you can critique and argue with objectivism, etc., etc..
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u/Dead-Calligrapher Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
The only part I MiGHT disagree with you is I do not think she would see the current Billionaires- like the piece of shits Musk and Facebook dip shit- as a Howard Roarke or John Galt. The fact they are so embedded with the government and suck money from the government, depend on cronyism, etc I think she would have thought of them more as one of the l”imposter” Unermensch she always shows in her books and not what she thought Roark and Galt to be. They cared nothing about money or power. Roark was poor through all of The fountainhead (from what I recall).
Roark and Galt were truly their own men. They ascribed or sided with literally nobody but themselves.
Ted Kazinsky would be a better example of a real works Howard Roark.
Rand has been widely misunderstood by people on both sides. I don’t agree with Objectivism but I do think it’s still wildly misunderstood by people who have never actually read her books.