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The thing that always bothered my about Ayn Rand's works is that she was using fiction full of straw men to prove her philosophy. Being able to make the good gu
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
The thing that always bothered my about Ayn Rand's works is that she was using fiction full of straw men to prove her philosophy. Being able to make the good guys and the bad guys say and do whatever conveniently proved the correctness of her beliefs seems to be exactly what this article is doing.
- perilunar 9y agoRand would say that every writer does that: "Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments." I think 'illustrate' rather than 'prove' though.