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"By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man - every man - is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose."

mg-tower2 · 2017-08-03T18:52:37+00:00

That's John Galt speaking - in Atlas Shrugged, a book that every MGTOW must read. It's the ultimate book about checking out of a sick...

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August 3, 2017

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Title	"By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man - every man - is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose."
Author	mg-tower2
Upvotes	18
Comments	3
Date	August 3, 2017 6:52 PM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MGTOW
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MGTOW/comments/6rej02/by_the_grace_of_reality_and_the_nature_of_life/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MGTOW/by-the-grace-of-reality-and-the-nature-of-life-man.567309 https://theredarchive.com/post/567309

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

[–]frankmarlowe1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I had to slog through this literary swamp in high school, so it's motherfuckin' Unpopular Opinion Time™:

It's a ten billion page brick that serves as a masturbatory ode to her own ideological invention, “Objectivism” and you're right on her dislike of altruism, because it's also a criticism of any form of sharing or charity, which she hated with every centipede in her vagina.

The opening words of this book are “Who is John Galt?” If you crossed out the words “Who is John Galt?” and replaced them with “Dude, Where’s My Car?” The meaning stays pretty much the same. The climax is a sixty page long speech by the main character who doesn’t even fucking show up until like page 600. In it, Rand goes on about her idea of a utopia:

-Men are men

-Women are subservient, maniacal bitches

-Everybody who has ever disagreed with her, had doubts about agreeing with her, or just not agreed hard enough dies an agonizingly slow and terrible death after civilization goes to shit.

The plot goes something like this: America is ruled by an illuminati of generic 50’s socialist tyrants who have converted everyone into lazy drunken Russians and broken everything ever until John Galt, a robot from the future, comes back in time to save computers and major airlines from not being created. At the same time a nymphomaniac has a crush on the android, and then they have robot sex in the subway. Srsly. It took her 1,200 pages to bang out a Railroad Tycoon fanfic with Dagny as Rand’s mary-sue.

It’s more useful as a doorstop than actual reading material.

((Edited for typos))

[–]MGTOW_Monger0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link