rufford comments on Whining-Based Communities - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 April 2009 08:31PM

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Comment author: arundelo 08 April 2009 03:44:52AM 2 points [-]

Let's be fair to Ayn Rand

Well, let's. Other than secondary characters like The Fountainhead's Henry Cameron (a great architect whose spirit has been broken), which of Rand's heroes are like this?

Surely you would be rich and famous and high-status like you deserve if not for them, those unappreciative bastards and their conspiracy of mediocrity.

Comment author: rufford 08 April 2009 07:27:58AM 0 points [-]

The first example to come to mind is Richard Halley from Atlas Shrugged, but I don't remember the book all that well.