my favorite scp is the joke scp that makes everything it comes into contact with unnecessarily verbose because one of the reported incidents was a copy of atlas shrugged that, before infection, was a sticky note that said “I HATE POOR PEOPLE”
There are 2 novels that can change a bookish 14-year old’s life: THE LORD OF THE RINGS and ATLAS SHRUGGED. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
To say I hate Ayn Rand is an understatement. I’m positive Atlas Shrugged is the worst book I’ve ever read, and I read Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice. Fuck Ayn Rand, her fucking retarded philosophy, and all those that believe in it. /rant
When I was a kid, my reading included comic books and Rand’s The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. There wasn’t much difference between the comic books and Rand’s novels in terms of the simplicity of the heroes. What was different was that unlike Superman or Batman, Rand made selfishness heroic, and she made caring about others weakness.
Rand said, “Capitalism and altruism are incompatible….The choice is clear-cut: either a new morality of rational self-interest, with its consequences of freedom, justice, progress and man’s happiness on earth—or the primordial morality of altruism, with its consequences of slavery, brute force, stagnant terror and sacrificial furnaces.” For many young people, hearing that it is “moral” to care only about oneself can be intoxicating, and some get addicted to this idea for life.
I have known several people, professionally and socially, whose lives have been changed by those close to them who became infatuated with Ayn Rand. A common theme is something like this: “My ex-husband wasn’t a bad guy until he started reading Ayn Rand. Then he became a completely selfish jerk who destroyed our family, and our children no longer even talk to him.”
To say I hate Ayn Rand is an understatement. I’m positive Atlas Shrugged is the worst book I’ve ever read, and I read Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice. Fuck Ayn Rand, her fucking retarded philosophy, and all those that believe in it. /rant
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