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I feel like you are completely missing the point of the protagonists self sacrifice..... you claim it is selfish to show the world that they are at an unhealth
by kderbyma 4y ago
I feel like you are completely missing the point of the protagonists self sacrifice.....
you claim it is selfish to show the world that they are at an unhealthy level of entitlement and ignorance and that to continue with the status quo is to invite a future of degradation and despotism that would shield all innovation from seeing daylight.
You claim that they are selfish in their acts but fa to acknowledge their reasons their outcomes or their resolve to not become serfs of the collectivists....it says do not be a slave just because you are good at something....it says stand up, realise your worth, don't cheapen yourself, but if people will not respect you and will not value your efforts with some compensation (whether that be recognition, money, respect, debt, etc) but some form of value should be given....the smallest people are not expected to give anything more than relative efforts ...
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoIf the characters were "self-sacrificing" in their actions, they were, by definition, acting against their own self interest, in conflict with every long-winded ideological monologue in the book. Skipping directly to the "fuck off into the mountains to pass gold around in their utopian rich person land" would have been more in their own interest. No, their actions were taken out of self-interested spite. It was not enough to leave society, they needed to harm it on the way out.