Ayn Rand - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Ayn Rand - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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"Money is a tool, not the driver." – AYN RAND. It’s about what money can help you do, not what it makes you.
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https://quotes.thisgrandpablogs.com/money-is-a-tool-not-the-driver/
Money Is a Tool – Not the Driver of Your Life

Money is a tool that helps you reach your goals—but it can't lead the way. You’re the driver, not the dollars.

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Vaya, no perdamos nunca el sentido del humor. Nada es realmente tan sagrado como el sentido del humor.

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“It boils down to this. The measure of mental health in a person is the degree of their interest in others. That could be their neighbours, or it could be social and political.”

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Zoe Williams surveys the landscape of self-help books right now, noting,

"If you yearn for an Ayn Randian existence of absolute self-reliance, there are plenty of bestsellers that can help. They may not make you happier though."

Contra the "Trumpy" philosophy of this literature, she cites psychotherapist Manu Bazzano, who observes,

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/09/look-out-for-number-one-selfish-self-help-books-are-booming-but-will-they-improve-your-life

Look out for number one! Selfish self-help books are booming – but will they improve your life?

If you yearn for an Ayn Randian existence of absolute self-reliance, there are plenty of bestsellers that can help. They may not make you happier though

The Guardian

"They’re evangelizing a worldview where selfishness is wisdom and concern for others is performance.

This spreads through elite networks, through media that treats cynicism as insight, through algorithmic systems that reward sociopathic behavior with attention and profit."

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"When Marc Andreessen describes liberation as freedom from 'having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties,' when venture capitalists celebrate 'disruption' that destroys communities while enriching investors, when tech platforms optimize for engagement regardless of democratic consequences—they’re not just acting selfishly."

~ Mike Brock

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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart

The Birth of the Sociopath: Why Smart People Choose to Stop Seeing Goodness

Understanding How People Choose to Become Worse Than They Could Be

Notes From The Circus

via Roger Head at Eschaton

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How Ayn Rand influenced comics, from Watchment to the twisted world view of Steve Ditko https://www.tcj.com/how-ayn-rand-influenced-comic-books/

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How Ayn Rand Influenced Comic Books - The Comics Journal

Echoes of the infamous author in the superhero comic book behemoths of the 1980s - satirized in Watchmen, and domesticated in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.

The Comics Journal