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Cake day: November 22nd, 2023

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  • I remember watching a video essay on one of her books a few years ago (it was either Atlas or Fountainhead) and the video pointed out that in order to read Marx’s Das Kapital you have to get through like 30 pages of maths at the very beginning and describes the world as it is (at least from Marx’s perspective), but Ayn Rand had to invent not one but several super metals, stronger, lighter, and cheaper than steel, and make everyone other than her main characters complete idiots in order to form her view on how the world should be. The fact that these two outlooks can even be comparable is laughable on its face, but knowing that many American politicians view here’s as the ‘correct’ one is downright depressing (and more importantly, dangerous)