Since I read a socialist book, I thought it might be good for my perspective to read something different. There's a cool thing writers do when they don't like something, like communism. They write a dystopian story about it. What if everybody stopped having good ideas because the people who came up with good ideas were considered egotistical and selfish? That could be bad.
I was a real big fan of Rand's The Fountainhead, showing Howard Roark as her ideal man in response to the world how it is, instead of the sensationalized dystopia of Anthem. Since I'm no authority, I won't go into Rand's ideas on Objectivism and Individualism. For every non-scenester artist who gets roused by such ideas, there's also some violent alt-right guy getting his rocks off, presenting both sides of the individualist nut job's coin. Education is key, isn't it?
Kids used to read Anthem in school, but I didn't. I wonder what today's students read. Maybe they're on tik tok, learning best how to please the masses in its most volatile form, becoming their best selves, dictated by what is 'liked' for that portion of their day. Bring me the dystopia.
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