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15 Nov 2023 Conversations with Tyler Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand
“I think she was pulling on these tropes, and then she was imagining this heroic manly man, that if she actually ever met in real life, she would not be attracted to and probably not even be able to tolerate, but in her imagination, this could be an idealized partner.”
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…Sex scenes in Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead — what do you make of them as a reader today? I think they’re part projection. I think they also can be very usefully read as part of the romantic genre. If you were to pick up a romance novel in the supermarket, you would find a very similar plot structure. It’s very much against our sensibilities, the rape as romance, coercion as romance, but again, if you read a dime-store romance novel, this is a trope that’s very common. I think she was pulling on these tropes, and then she was imagining this heroic manly man, that if she actually ever met in real life, she would not be attracted to and probably not even be able to tolerate, but in her imagination, this could be an idealized partner. I recall at age 13 visiting the Foundation for Economic Education, and Leonard Read boasting to me in his office that he had Ayn Rand on his desk and pointing to where that happened. What was the equilibrium in her love life? How did that work?…
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