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a lot?
none of those are really unique to objectivism or card's own brand of pseudo uber-mensch facism
That they share an awful lot of the same DNA is basically all that was said?
I guess I'm not really sure why you think it ain't accurate if you agree that they have a whole lot of (gross) themes in common.
because card isn't really an objectivist?
like, fascism is almost the exact opposite in terms of governmental ideology
I noted at a young age that villains who ran away were cowards that ran from a fight.
But heros who ran away were reasonable, good natured folk who were being merciful.
And again, I didn't read the books and get the feeling that there wasn't anyone to blame.
Again, only read the first book, but it is certainly reaching to call the genocide as being 'excused by his ignorance' when you are putting the blame on his superiors. He was literally playing starcraft and then they said "By the way, the final level with all the zerg was real. GG"
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galt is what rand wanted EVERYBODY to aspire to because he was super good at stuff and fuck you got mine
the difference is card concedes that some people are born better whereas rand feels anybody can be better if you're not a parasite and do things that people want
Talking up Log Cabin Republicans, I guess
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You read some weird books. Have you ever dug into Hank the Cowdog?
I would be interested in some Pooropinions of that series.
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Hank's owner believes and practices eugenics, and is a member of several neo-Nazi organizations
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Where I'm coming from is, in both there's this view that talent/"practicality" should supersede empathy. Hence "Baby's First" Rand. It ain't a one to one, it's a primer on the underlying lack of empathy and vaunting of superior people over "inferior" ones, and belief that there even is such a distinction as superior/inferior when talking about human life
right I get that, but it's still not really comparable as anything other than "they are both callous assholes"
which is true I guess? but not really apropos
I mean you could replace rand with bolshevism or the khmer rouge or something and it would be more accurate
wait if we're trolling redditors then I recant
Harry Potter's okay with this. Some of the time, anyway.
I sorta took away from the series that one should actually be more empathetic, and have sympathy for those who were straight up different.
Talent is kinda a curse in the series, as most of the folks who are talented are used and abused or suffering, or are straight up monsters from having severe psychological issues they never asked for- paired with power and a political demand that they shape the world.
The John Galts of the Enderverse, Peter Wiggin and Achilles de Flandres, especially drive this home.
There is a point in Ender's Shadow that the teachers remark on the irony
There isn't a might equals right mentality that's held up on a pedestal, but rather a "might and talent is dangerous for both the talented and meek" focus.
The series has big emphases on the concept on legacy across time too.
I can spoiler more if it's needed.
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Now? Eh. If he made a book I liked and just had these ideas, then maybe I'd say ok. Dude can have his opinions even if they're wrong, but, if the money I pay to see this actively funds him being a giant fucking asshole, no thanks.
Thanks, thread.
The Blithedale Romance
They show up to earth, unannounced, and immediately start killing millions of people.
Earth fights back and ends up winning by accident. They knew it was sheer fucking luck that they'd managed to kill the queen. They didn't even know there was a queen when they killed her and all the other Formic ships stopped moving.
So, naturally, they fear another attack from this obviously dangerous and apparently hostile force of unknown numbers and unknown capabilities. They realize that defending a planet from literally every direction is impossible. So they do the only thing they know to do to keep earth safe - they take the fight to the Formics.
I mean, the only reason Ender even knew anything about the Formics was because the queens made a collective effort to beam psychic message into his dreams. The only thing the brass on Earth knew was that if those aliens showed up again, Earth was fucked. There was no communication.
And what were they supposed to do? Send a police force to some unknown, possibly uninhabitable planet for an indeterminate amount of time to try to reign in these utterly alien creatures without killing them?
The war was the result of a tragic misunderstanding, but Earth's response seems pretty understandable to me.
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all the Artemis Fowl books suck
nope! first three and the artemis fowl files were good
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See, I agree with that as the, that's how the adults ran battle school.
But conversely, that was one of the things that the children fought against. I mean you can argue that the war was won with that philosophy, but its pretty obvious that the main character was scarred by it.
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How much of my childhood am I missing?
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's an okay series
their explanation for the term leprechaun is incredible
the police force is called the Lower Elements Police
reconnaissance forces have to go above ground to go after fairies that leave
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Also while the post-Eternity Code books are kinda bad Atremis's return to douchebaggery and return were great.
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That would require a basic understanding of how society functions.
It has no place in an Ayn Rand book.
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And then the author started shipping Holly/Artemis
Fuckin nope
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