Rand self-insert (Dagny), CEO of railroad company, is dating steel industrialist (Rearden).
Then she vanishes to build a utopian ancap society with like 8 other capitalists incl her childhood friend (who was only pretending to sleep with a lot of women and be really bad at business for the past 20 years, he was actually saving himself for someone like Dagny, and tanking the copper corporation he inherited so the govt wouldn't get any value when they seized it).
Then she comes back and runs into Rearden and explains she ghosted him to fuck her childhood friend. And Rearden recognizes that they share the same philosophy and values so it's cool.
Also both of those characters have non-consensual sex with Rand's self-insert.
The military and a passenger train collide in a tunnel and everyone dies. Rand then goes through each passenger room and explains how the occupants brought this on themselves supporting altrusm.
After the economy collapses from all the capitalists going on strike, John Galt, their leader makes a 30 page long speech to every single person in NYC while projecting giant subtitles in the sky over all of NYC (he stole a machine the govt built to draw a giant calendar over the entirety of NYC). And then everyone clapped and accepted their fate and starved until the US govt collapsed.
There's a pirate who stole a battleship and uses it to level the factories that were stolen from the capitalists by workers or the govt, while handing out gold bars to the capitalists.
My god. The fountainhead really gave me a false sense of how bad atlas shrugged is in comparison. Like there's obviously a bunch of dumb bullshit in that too--another weird non-consenual encounter, Roark blowing up a housing project because he's a selfish egotistical little shit, etc.--but that is at least readable and has characters you can imagine actually existing in the real world, and the message (or at least the one I got out of it) that institutions will stifle progress and innovation for the sake of maintaining power is decent, even if her intention for putting that message in there is to argue that a manchild can destroy housing for the poor because the engineer made slight alterations to his blueprint.
But this, fuck me. This feels like it was written by an alien or a dog or something, a being that isn't human but is making guesses about how humans think and feel about things. I might have to do the self harm of reading this book, I'm too transfixed by how idiotic all these passages are.
I'm sorry what.
I've read the fountainhead but I've never done the self harm of reading atlas shrugged, is this seriously a sequence in the book
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Rand self-insert (Dagny), CEO of railroad company, is dating steel industrialist (Rearden). Then she vanishes to build a utopian ancap society with like 8 other capitalists incl her childhood friend (who was only pretending to sleep with a lot of women and be really bad at business for the past 20 years, he was actually saving himself for someone like Dagny, and tanking the copper corporation he inherited so the govt wouldn't get any value when they seized it). Then she comes back and runs into Rearden and explains she ghosted him to fuck her childhood friend. And Rearden recognizes that they share the same philosophy and values so it's cool. Also both of those characters have non-consensual sex with Rand's self-insert.
The military and a passenger train collide in a tunnel and everyone dies. Rand then goes through each passenger room and explains how the occupants brought this on themselves supporting altrusm.
After the economy collapses from all the capitalists going on strike, John Galt, their leader makes a 30 page long speech to every single person in NYC while projecting giant subtitles in the sky over all of NYC (he stole a machine the govt built to draw a giant calendar over the entirety of NYC). And then everyone clapped and accepted their fate and starved until the US govt collapsed.
There's a pirate who stole a battleship and uses it to level the factories that were stolen from the capitalists by workers or the govt, while handing out gold bars to the capitalists.
My god. The fountainhead really gave me a false sense of how bad atlas shrugged is in comparison. Like there's obviously a bunch of dumb bullshit in that too--another weird non-consenual encounter, Roark blowing up a housing project because he's a selfish egotistical little shit, etc.--but that is at least readable and has characters you can imagine actually existing in the real world, and the message (or at least the one I got out of it) that institutions will stifle progress and innovation for the sake of maintaining power is decent, even if her intention for putting that message in there is to argue that a manchild can destroy housing for the poor because the engineer made slight alterations to his blueprint.
But this, fuck me. This feels like it was written by an alien or a dog or something, a being that isn't human but is making guesses about how humans think and feel about things. I might have to do the self harm of reading this book, I'm too transfixed by how idiotic all these passages are.