![]() ![]() And indeed, all the heroes in Atlas Shrugged *are* pretty much identical to each other, except for minimal differences in physical appearance and choice of profession. Example: the alleged consummate individualist claims that if everyone choose rationally, nobody would differ from each other even insofar as ice cream preference but that effectively denies any such thing as individualism and makes everyone in her ideal world identical to each other. There are also some basic contradictions. ![]() When she had to choose between the objective facts she supposedly revered and the loyalty and reverence of her band of fanatical followers, she simply lied to them, rather than admit (for example) that many, many people had helped her in significant ways, and she would almost certainly not have succeeded as an author - or perhaps even survived to write her major works - without them. any accurate biography of the author will demonstrate that not even the grand dame herself could live according to her own principles. This *is* pretty compelling fiction - a world of fantasy heroes in which a lot of people have understandably chosen to get lost, some of them permanently. This is why bad philosophies can make such compelling fiction. It's really easy to make your philosophy come across as correct when you can design the world in which you're presenting it so that you decide everything that happens. ![]()
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