tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451962221661604654.post7684598438206451118..comments2023-07-04T04:04:56.340-07:00Comments on Quantum Spin Plates: The super-funtime Ayn Rand Post: In which your humble blogger touches on an issue that will never offend anyone everTheRealZoombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294181964112167396noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451962221661604654.post-20874973667438276632012-08-20T11:28:37.749-07:002012-08-20T11:28:37.749-07:00It's almost like they're worried people mi...It's almost like they're worried people might find they're irrelevant...TheRealZoombiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10294181964112167396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451962221661604654.post-47597467004602740792012-08-20T11:01:30.117-07:002012-08-20T11:01:30.117-07:00...and thus the problems with people who don't......and thus the problems with people who don't understand Rand's writings, and think they are the romantic superheros she was writing about.<br /><br />Rand's writings have been intentionally misinterpreted by both the left and the right, always in defense of the state. It gets annoying after a while.Agorist Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06881858776546654763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451962221661604654.post-54968674502850762272012-08-17T19:18:56.328-07:002012-08-17T19:18:56.328-07:00That's all well and good...but I'm uncomfo...That's all well and good...but I'm uncomfortable with the idea of people THINKING themselves as heroic, Promethean individualists. <br /><br />I prefer humble individualists. Because even an individualist needs other individualists to be friends with and hang out with and play D&D, and no one wants to hang around with someone who thinks their head is in the clouds, when really it's just up their ass. TheRealZoombiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10294181964112167396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451962221661604654.post-77864785996830833822012-08-17T17:37:58.397-07:002012-08-17T17:37:58.397-07:00I had to go find this link, for the quote. It'...I had to go find this link, for the quote. It's one I was looking for before I wrote the above.<br /><br />The goal of her writing, she said, was not to capture a "slice of life," but to project her moral vision of man "as he might and ought to be."<br /><br />And so the protagonists of her bestsellers (We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged) are heroic, Promethean individualists—embattled titans in a world of envious Lilliputians.<br /><br />http://www.atlassociety.org/ayn-rands-worksAgorist Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06881858776546654763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451962221661604654.post-74172316541768245572012-08-17T16:08:00.314-07:002012-08-17T16:08:00.314-07:00Nicely done. You're correct in that Rand write...Nicely done. You're correct in that Rand writes of superheros in Atlas Shrugged. That was her intent from the beginning. I recommend her Romantic Manifesto if you want to understand her intent. It's rarely mentioned because if you understand it Rand suddenly becomes a more powerful writer. Here's a short quote:<br /><br />Romanticism is the conceptual school of art. It deals, not with the random trivia of the day, but with the timeless, fundamental, universal problems and values of human existence. It does not record or photograph; it creates and projects. It is concerned—in the words of Aristotle—not with things as they are, but with things as they might be and ought to be.<br /><br />She wrote Galt and Dagny as superheros on purpose - to make a moral case for virtue as she saw it.Agorist Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06881858776546654763noreply@blogger.com