"The Walking Dead and Ayn Rand"

[shirgall]

A couple of uninformed folks over on Reddit have started a thread saying that Ayn Rand would have liked a camp of cannibals in The Walking Dead.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/thewalkingdead/comments/2lic1v/no_spoilers_the_walking_dead_and_ayn_rand/

 

I've added my two cents. 

[andkon]

"Ayn Rand can fuck off" Hey, look, it's bomb in the brain in the wild!

[nickhk]

Yeah no.  Ayn Rand could've written this season's episode 4.

 

Greater good!  Greater good!  Greater good!

[Clay]

I couldn't help but have a good hearty lol @ this comment. 

 

 

 

I can easily picture Joe's group and the Terminites reading Ayn Rand on the days when they weren't marking territory or eating other people.

 

This is really how leftists/progressives like to characterize Ayn Rand and anyone that respects her work.  They dig around in their brain for the most snarky, vicious comment they can dream up and then they puke it up in front of anyone who shows any respect or curiosity towards Ayn's work....

 

Her loudest and most vicious critics don't even concerned about demonstrating a basic understanding her arguments.  They, for some reason, pretend the central ethic of Objectivism is all about being greedy and sacrificing others to yourself.   Here's another comment that caught my eye.

 

 

 

Objectivists would be at best ejected from groups.

They are all "greed is good." Thus planting the thought worm in the minds of those around them that this person is going to steal and hoard supplies.

 

"Greed is good" is the famous Gordon Gecko quote from Wall Street, as I'm sure you're all aware. Ayn Rand's haters like to use this quote in conversations about her work as if it's straight out of Howard Roarks mouth or something.

 

They pay no mind to the fact that Ayn Rand was explicit about the immorality of sacrificing others for yourself.  This is central to objectivist thought, but they pretend it's all just "Greed is good" don't ya know?

 

I don't claim to know what their motivation is, but I believe it is probably one of manipulation.  "I do not care about what Ayn Rands arguments... If you speak positively about her or take any of her arguments seriously, people like me are going to be very mean to you and eject you from our group."