Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138" video.

Power porn for teenage boys. Normal kids outgrow it. "Objectivism"? Nothing objective about it. The opposite, by its own declaration inane egoism. Bah, humbug!
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@pontiuspilates I don't think that "poor writer" thingie will fly. She's hugely successful in sales and convincing in her message. Aren't sales and converts the measures of a writer's ability? The problem is that her message is nonsense -- or ultimate truth, your call. Her "objectivism" is an egotism verging on solipsism -- than which almost nothing is more irrefutable.
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@pontiuspilates Sales are a good indicator of both popular opinion about what is great and of the effect of literary tropes. I think the fact that "Atlas Shrugged" sold 700,000 copies in Hungary in the last few years of Communism probably has a good deal to do with today's government there. I suppose you could call it a pot-boiler, but then isn't the huge market for the Bible somewhat a function of all that sensational virgin birth, blood and gore, and the hokey angels stuff in it?
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