Atlas Shrugged: The Movie

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I think Objectivism can best be summed up as an ideal made up by a spoiled rich girl who got all her toys taken away and felt she really, really deserved those toys, so she went and trapped herself a rich man to support her and wrote a bunch of books about how she deserved her toys and got them that nobody cared about until after a few people read her obituary and got curious as to why they'd never heard of any of the books it name dropped.

And even that's stretching it. Rand basically never even attempted to live an Objectivist lifestyle.

Well, in fairness to like history and shit, Objectivism is the philosophical notion that people will behave in the opposite manner as the Soviets if they are instructed to believe the exact opposite in every way of what communists believe, as described in a book Ayn Rand read this one time.