Books with the worst morals/messages?

[SirTainlysleepy]

Atlas Shrugged. The author genuinely believed that the wealthy could exist without ordinary people and prosper, instead of resorting to self-bickering and backstabbing over nothing. Check the RL experiments of such societies. If the CEO of the railways disappears, the people will simply choose another CEO. It won't crumble.

And yet tons of people buy into this shit. Well, so long as no one tries to implement this in a country, it is funny to see them trying to build a utopia and fall.

It is the same as with a Machiavelli. People treat him like some genius-level schemer; when the one scheme he joined failed, he was severely punished and then larped as some genius to convince people to buy his books. The quality and usefulness of his material are the same as a self-help book for the rich today. Judge the source before learning material, people!

Machiavelli didn't even attempt a scheme. He was accused of conspiracy but still claimed his innocence under torture and was shortly after released and exiled.

 

[Peagreene]

120 Days of Sodom. Mein Kampf. Juliette. Clockwork Orange. American Psycho. Cats Cradle. In Praise of Folly. The Virtues of Selfishness.

What a sizzling hot take that Mein Kampf is problematic.

 

[JordanIda]

Atlas Shrugged. The author genuinely believed that the wealthy could exist without ordinary people and prosper, instead of resorting to self-bickering and backstabbing over nothing. Check the RL experiments of such societies. If the CEO of the railways disappears, the people will simply choose another CEO. It won't crumble.

Hmm. I won't defend Atlas Shrugged. Rand wasn't a good novelist.

But I am curious. Have you read the book? Or have you only heard what your socialist/Keynesian professors and the Internet tell you to think about it?

The heroine of the book (Dagney Taggart) isn't the backstabbing, conniving. plotting CEO. That's her shitheel brother. Dagney is the company's creative engine. The railroad falls apart when she says screw this, and takes her ball and goes home.

This in fact happens to private sector companies all the time. You're right: the CEOs are interchangeable (though "the people" don't choose them; shareholders choose them through corporate boards). But the creative engines behind the scenes all too often aren't. When the prime movers walk out (or in Atlas Shrugged, "go on strike,") that's when it all falls apart.

 

[Bimbanana]

imma steal this, thank you

 

[Lmae]

Never mutilate yourself to appeal to jealous people.