Hey guys, quick question. · 1:25am Dec 17th, 2015
And by quick, I mean I have roughly three hours to have the answers. Also, the sooner I finish with this, the sooner I'll be back at writing everyone's favorite showpony turned hellspawn.
So, I'm writing an essay on objectivism; its previous influences, like existentialism, and how it influenced back the post-modern culture. The last bit of the essay is about fictional works base, or sharing common themes with objectivism. So far, I got the following ones:
Anarky (comic book): The protagonist is basically an objectivist revolutionary,. The writer, Alan Grant has said on record he follows objectivism.
Ghostbusters (film): The idea of people fighting magic (mysticism) with technology (reason). All while the start-point of the story is when the protagonists decide to go autonomous.
Iron Man 2 (film): I was surprised too, but when you read the movie's plto out loud, it sounds almost like a carbon copy of Atlas Shrugged.
The Island (film): It tells the story of a man and a woman realizing everything they know is wrong; they throw away the axioms they have known their entire lives and now are looking for their own answers.
The ideal thing would be more non-movies examples, and as known as possible. Yes, we all know Steve Ditko was an objectivist himself, but since finding the direct source has become all but impossible, unless someone can direct me to full scans of The Question or Mister A, or the more political issues of the original Amazing Spider-Man, I'll have to ignore his works.
Thank you very much for your help.
There an entire series of fantasy novels called "The Sword of Truth" by Terry Goodkind that is explicitly influenced by Objectivism and Libertarianism. It is also widely considered to be pretty horrible and has things like the protagonist kicking a little child in the jaw because she's evil like that or something. Take that as you will. It's the only thing I'm afraid I can think of off-hand right now, though.
You're welcome man, glad I could answer your question.
(I know I didn't really answer a question, I'm just pointing out that you didn't ask a question. There is not a single question mark <?> in your post.)
Now, I'm guessing that you're wanting more elements of objectivism?
Sorry dude, i don't think i can help you there
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I'll look it up, thank you for the tip.
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Okay, my bad. To be honest, I've been running on fumes the last days due to university work forcing sleep suppression.
And yeah, I was asking for other works with objectivistic themes.
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No worries. Thanks for the support, anyways.
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Personally, I recommend not looking it up. I've read it and it's honestly not very good in purely literary terms, whatever anyone may think of the political aspects of it. I still wanted to at least contribute it in case it helps or something, though.
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When finals are over you need to sleep for a week.
Well, I'm not too good with objectivism and right off the top of my head I can only think of one element and that is the character of Snape from the Harry Potter books. Throughout the first 6 books Snape always treats Harry the same and it isn't until the 7th book that we learn why; but up until that point, it is as if nothing Harry does will ever earn a positivity, in any regards, from Snape.
I don't know if that will help, but it's all I've got.