Atlas Shrugged -- Midwit Filter - /lit/ (#24471000) [Archived: 1109 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:40:44 PM No.24471000
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I just finished this, expecting cringe libertarian propaganda. What I got instead was interesting social commentary on societal contract, self, and society. Is this just a big midwit filter that most people don't appreciate due to its conflict with their personal agenda?
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:45:10 PM No.24471006
Ayn Rand is one of those people where the societal dictate is that she's retarded and her work is not worth considering so most people who "critique" her work haven't even read the Wikipedia article on her, let alone her actual work.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:45:55 PM No.24471008
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>>24471000 (OP)
>expecting cringe libertarian propaganda
>instead was interesting social commentary on societal contract, self, and society
>instead was interesting social commentary on societal contract, self, and society
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:49:58 PM No.24471018
The political and social commentary was mid tier, in my opinion. And I really couldn't take it seriously after Ayn spent so much time writing about Dagny's love triangle. I think Twilight handled love triangles with more reality and grit than Atlas Shrugged did. All of Dagny's fucktoys are so complacent when replaced by the next, more perfect guy. The drama between Edward and Jacob in Twilight is more realistic than Galt and Francisco or Howard.... If you can't even write male-female relationships with realism, how can I expect your social and political views to reasonably apply to the real world?
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:57:39 PM No.24471034
>>24471000 (OP)
What social commentary? A la government bad, socialism bad, stupid people bad while smart people good?
Amazing book
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:59:05 PM No.24471036
>>24471000 (OP)
Checked, and yes, pretty much
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 3:00:07 PM No.24471039
>>24471034
See, it filtered the dimwits as well as the midwits
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 3:02:00 PM No.24471045
>>24471039
Yes, the amazing love square fanfic filtered me, you're right
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 3:15:07 PM No.24471055
>>24471000 (OP)
Ayn Rand developed her philosophy specifically because she was so ugly that even in the shitstorm of the Russian Revolution neither her kike daddy nor the inbred alcoholic Bolsheviks were interested in raping her. She coped by convincing herself that this is due to socialism repressing the healthy and natural instincts (to rape Ayn Rand) in men, and men should act as selfish as possible (i.e. finally rape her). In her books, tall selfish men with big arms are constantly raping her self-insert character. She completely misunderstood men, as it always happens with women.

A real man is a living antithesis to Objectivism. As a human male, I cannot act in my own personal interests since I naturally have none, so instead I rape women out of selfless kindness, as all men do.

If Ayn Rand ever met me, I would rape the Objectivism out of her to absolutely no benefit of my own (there can be no personal gain or profit from raping Ayn Rand desu), and that would collapse her world-view on a metaphysical level. It would become indisputably self-evident to her that she kept writing books because despite all of her efforts she never got a good rape. She never got a good rape because the only men she interacted with were Objectivists who fell for her books - books written by a women dreaming of being raped, about a woman dreaming of being raped. The only men who can enjoy her books are women in male bodies, inherently incapable of raping her, and instead hoping that she would rape them, that she would incarnate as a the man she dreams of, the Messiah hiding under the skin of the Prophet. She would see why all of her relationships with men were such disasters, both of them eagerly waiting for the other to rape, waiting to no outcome. She would love me and my kind dick selflessly in return despite all her will, leaving her with absolutely nothing to ground her ideas anymore, finally feeling true freedom - freedom as an absence, as a flight with no land holding your feet, as hers would be dangling high above. The dreams of an Atlantean man of self-interests would evaporate from her head with the moisture of my cum drying in her scruffy hair. She would sing praises to Lenin whenever her mouth is not taken by selfless work on my cock and balls.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 3:18:13 PM No.24471064
>>24471055
I love this copypasta
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 4:25:20 PM No.24471195
I get that this is bait, and I even agree with many of Rand's points on many things, but for the love of all that is holy that woman can't write a decent story.
Rand is at her best when she is writing political and philosophical essays without the pretense of telling a story.
Her story telling quite literally makes me cringe and reminds me of shit I see on fan-fiction sites.
Seriously, brilliant woman, fantastic rational ideals, but clearly unironically autistic.
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 4:55:53 PM No.24471266
>>24471000 (OP)
The issue is that people dont actually read that book, and just default to parroting opinions of others who also didn't read it.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:45:48 AM No.24472934
>>24471000 (OP)
It is a midwit filter, it's for nitwits only
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 2:47:02 PM No.24473538
>>24471006
People who tell you not to judge a book by its cover tend to be horrendously ugly and perpetually bitchmade about it. With that established, when the title alone makes the premise retarded I am judging the book by its cover and anyone who takes it seriously.
>The foundation of the world shifts out from under it to spite the idea that anyone has responsibilities to the unwashed masses
>All of you goyboys will lose all the nice things you have if the people who only care about themselves stopped doing the hard work they haven't ever done in any line of work because they were too busy with shabbos-goy if not outright Jewish nickle and diming through loopholes in various monetary systems
Atlas in this metaphor is agriculture, hospitals and civil engineering. These roles are a slave-caste to Rand that aren't even human in the way she was human. She is shrugging a weight off her shoulders that was never there. Why would I have to read the book to understand how retarded that is?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:13:34 PM No.24474346
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are so easy to misunderstand because the central conflict in those books isn't capitalism vs socialism or the individual vs the collective, it's between those who pursue a higher ideal and those who merely exist and let life carry them around. Everything else is just a manifestation of that.