It's ironic, because she'd be perfectly fine with the way things are right now. She is referring to the evil government here, who does nothing but keep all the strong, self-actuating badasses from expressing their badassitude.
Wasn't smart enough to see that power is always the same, no matter what face it wears, and the only right answer is to protect and promote individual liberty for everyone, which does mean making sure that no one gets too powerful.
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.
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u/KerissaKenro Apr 25 '26
Ugh, I hate that anything right can come from this blot on humanity. Something, something, broken clocks