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Reading an article comparing classical education to modern education...
...and then realizing that it's all based on Ayn Rand:
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"Logic" and "reality" in Rand-speak translates to "whatever Ayn Rand likes".
Damn, that is one really tl;dr article. I think I now get the real reason why nobody could argue against Francisco's "Money is the root of all good" speech in Atlas Shrugged: nobody could stay awake long enough to pay attention.
Only time she was ever right was when she was like "this fucked up society where nobody's ever allowed to just be themselves is wrong".
Of course it was wrong! It's a completely unrealistic society that forces a mentality onto its citizens!
I'd like to see an inverse-Anthem where the protagonist escapes from a nightmare of forced Objectivism.
For some reason, I instantly thought of William Hickman.
Incidentally:
"The first thing that impresses me about the case is the ferocious rage of a whole society against one man. No matter what the man did, there is always something loathsome in the 'virtuous' indignation and mass-hatred of the 'majority.'... It is repulsive to see all these beings with worse sins and crimes in their own lives, virtuously condemning a criminal..."