http://tigron-x.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] tigron-x.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] politicartoons2017-02-09 11:52 am
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[identity profile] tigron-x.livejournal.com 2017-02-10 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
So, what Ayn Rand wasn't saddled with legal or physical obstacles because she escaped communism?

I guess if it was capitalism she'd be in that picture.

Nice omission of facts.
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[personal profile] garote 2017-02-11 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I guess if she was harangued by people telling her stuff like, "you can't be a writer, you're a goddamned woman!" then it would count.

While I admire her early adoption of atheism, I must say, both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were barely tolerable as fiction, and as expressions of a philosophy they were chock full of holes. The further reading I did about Objectivism itself did not address most of those holes either.

What draws you to Ayn Rand??

[identity profile] tigron-x.livejournal.com 2017-02-11 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Everything depicted in the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is happening today. Although Atlas Shrugged went way deeper into it.

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[personal profile] garote 2017-02-12 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh? When are the special innovator job-creator types going to pack their fucking bags and leave all us poor regular SOBs behind, and fly to their candy-ass island utopia then? Because I tell you what, that can't happen soon enough. :D

[identity profile] tigron-x.livejournal.com 2017-02-12 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Funny thing, I wrote my comment thinking I better point out "except for the Galt secret camp" stuff. But, I said to myself, "Nah, this guy isn't going be that obtuse about what I said. He's going to understand I'm referencing the regression of society."


So, i really hope you're just having some fun with me and saying that in jest, and realize I'm pointing out how post modernism is turning everything on its head.
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[personal profile] garote 2017-02-12 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Regression of society? How do you arrive at that? You're not trying to stealth in some kind of "the negro is a lesser race" old-skool shit in here are you? Because I would be very disappointed.

From my point of view, society as a whole has actually improved drastically in my lifetime. Many governments and parts of governments are still subject to corruption and manipulation, and probably always will be, but the spread of communications and mapping technology and the growth of the collectivist attitude "on the ground" has been incredible.

My favorite example: The two most powerful nations on this Earth are currently entrenched in a shared economy producing the one gadget that is now almost indispensable in modern society: The humble smartphone. That is freaking amazing.

I'd never say the upward trend is guaranteed. But I think it's more upward than downward.

[identity profile] tigron-x.livejournal.com 2017-02-12 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm referencing stuff like the retarded feminist that dropped period blood on a canvas and called it art. Or this...

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[personal profile] garote 2017-02-12 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh boo hoo, some artists are making shit you don't like, and people are building shit with a different aesthetic. The world clearly is devolving. :P
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