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The parody of Ayn Rand's writing style captures it well: Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code, you have cried that your code
by pohl 14y ago
The parody of Ayn Rand's writing style captures it well:
Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned men, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code. Your victims took the blame and struggled on, with your curses as reward for their martyrdom - while you went on crying that your code was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good? - by what standard?
Nice.
- javert 14y agoIt's a direct quote, except in the original, the first instance of "code" is actually "code of morality". OP could not have written that paragraph.
- mkopinsky 14y agoWow. That only makes this that much more amazing.
- nirvana 14y agoIt probably doesn't make much sense taken without any context, so the best way to understand what's being said here is to remember that Rand escaped communist Russia. Imagine you're a russian and you're taught that the "code of morality" is to sacrifice for the proletariat (which really amounts to the politburo's whims) and that when the wheat harvest fails to be sufficient, it is not caused by the inefficiencies of central planning, but by the greed of individuals who didn't sufficiently sacrifice themselves for the good of all.
- legutierr 14y ago"centuries of scourges and disasters" Is she really talking about communism here, or something else?
- javert 14y agothe best way to understand what's being said here is to remember that Rand escaped communist Russia No, not at all. The best--in fact, the only--way to understand what's being said here is to read the fucking book (Atlas Shrugged).