"Ayn Rand" or "What Is Communism?"

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

Objectivism has a level 3 power that causes your children to be born fully formed, with ageless bodies. Didn't you pay attention in Social Studies?

I always suspected Exalted of being secretly Objectivist.

[Seil]

I could make so many jokes about 'Rand' and 'being randy, baby,' but I am physically incapable of thinking about sex while looking at a picture of Ayn Rand.

[Mr.Bookworm]

[Seil]

I don't think this is helping me to understand communism at all!

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

I always suspected Exalted of being secretly Objectivist.

Nah, if it was Exalted, it'd be an Essence 3 Charm.

[Jagos]

Didn't someone also argue how the Protomen CD was about Objectivism as well?

[Arhra]

Originally Posted by Seil

I don't think this is helping me to understand communism at all!

I AM COMMUNISM

[Satan's Onion]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Ayn Rand is the proponent of the philosophy Objectivism, the major tenets of which are that Ayn Rand* should be as much of a selfish asshole as she wants and everybody else should love and admire her for it.


*Also any guy Ayn Rand particularly wants to fuck be raped by because Ayn Rand's personal fantasies are Every Woman's Ideal--and if rape fantasies aren't your thing, then clearly you are a namby-pamby collectivist and your twisted, non-raping psyche is both a reflection and cause of all of society's deepest problems.

Fixed to better reflect what I know of Rand's ballsed-up notions of what is good and right and proper.

I mean I'm not about to get on anybody for a rape fantasy in itself, because what matters most is whether the parties involved are of age and consenting, even if they're consenting to pretend not to consent, as it were. The thing is that she seems to have had some serious problems with "your thing is not my thing and that's okay". If I recall correctly, she even insisted once that all true Objectivists smoked cigarettes because something something Prometheus blah blah spark of man's whatever. She couldn't just up and say "hey, I likes me some coffin nails, y'all"--oh hell no. She had to turn smoking versus non-smoking into a point of fucking ideology.

Also, god dammit Bookworm some of us wanted to maybe enjoy sex at some point within the next decade .

[Aerozord]

Just tossing this out here, even ignoring the ethical issues of the philosophy, like all social structures it is flawed because it only works if everyone is on the same page. Bioshock represents this rather well. Rapture wasn't originally a hellhole, or atleast not the kind we see in the game. Yea it allowed things to go down hill, but in early stages it was an ok place to live.

But there is a reason it falls apart, the reason our system came up in the first place. Because you might be the strongest smartest most talented guy on the planet, but you'd still lose to a small group of people. Rapture quickly went down hill because one guy got a few bodies together and ran roughshod over the entire operation. Then of course those that didn't like that started banning together themselves, thing became factionalized.

Objectivism really runs contrary to human nature. We want to form groups and work together. Hell just go to a high school and you can see that

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Communism is what happens in the mirror universe.