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Why Ayn Rand Would Have Hated Ari Aster's "Midsommar"

Why Ayn Rand Would Have Hated Ari Aster's "Midsommar"

it turns out that morality and self-fulfillment are two things, not one thing.

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I don’t know a lot about Ayn Rand’s taste in movies. I try not to assume that commentators with moral and political perspectives I find abhorrent don’t have anything else going for them as human beings. Lots of people like that have created great art, for example. Ayn Rand sure wasn’t one of them—her novels have all the subtlety and depth of characteriz…

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