This is your libertarian paradise.
This is your libertarian paradise.
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What's so convenient about this is there's no falsification. If you live according to Rand's doctrine and don't achieve then it's not your fault, it's the parasites who leech off your obviously superior talent. One day, though, people like you will stop producing and the entire world will screech to a halt.
It's this self-aggrandizement that makes Rand attractive, and even allows people whom she would probably view as parasites to see themselves as innovators. It provides a ready-made model of haves and have nots, and everyone can easily view themselves as a have being dragged down by have nots. It's the same set of tendencies that makes nationalistic philosophies like facism so attractive, you tell one class they are superior and all their failures are due to the other classes.
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Anyone who comes to the above conclusion has either 1) not thoroughly read Rand or 2) thoroughly read but not understood Rand. It's really tiresome to see her philosophy repeatedly summarized so erroneously like this.