Does it count as a meme if it’s from 1985 but still structured like a meme?

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    All you need to know about Ayn Rand is that she cashed her Social Security checks.

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    6 months ago

    Everything Rand ever said essentially boiled down to “Equity is bad because I’m the smartestest”.

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      More like your boss is smarter than you and if they left the world would collapse.

      The funny thing is anyone with half a brain and any real life experience knows it’s bs.

      These conservatives always think they’re special snowflakes that the world would collapse if they left.

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    The most distressing thing about this quote from Rand is that many people, even today, will read it and say that it’s wise, insightful, and true, rather than see it for what it is: incoherent nonsense.

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      “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

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        I remember watching a video essay on one of her books a few years ago (it was either Atlas or Fountainhead) and the video pointed out that in order to read Marx’s Das Kapital you have to get through like 30 pages of maths at the very beginning and describes the world as it is (at least from Marx’s perspective), but Ayn Rand had to invent not one but several super metals, stronger, lighter, and cheaper than steel, and make everyone other than her main characters complete idiots in order to form her view on how the world should be. The fact that these two outlooks can even be comparable is laughable on its face, but knowing that many American politicians view here’s as the ‘correct’ one is downright depressing (and more importantly, dangerous)

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          I’ve read all of Rand. I think her novels are fucking hilarious - although not for the intended reasons. Her dialogue is like some deliberately overwrought sketch you’d see on youtube/tiktok/IG

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    6 months ago

    Ayn Rand? You mean that miserable woman who died broke and alone because her groupies took her message seriously and acted in their own interest?

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    If you don’t know anything about Rand or her book, the first half of that quote actually makes sense. It only goes to shit once she starts talking about “the so-called redistribution of wealth”. I agree with the parts before that.

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    Memes don’t have consistent structure, they can be photos, drawings, comics, animated cartoons, gifs, videos, plain text (comments, posts, articles), screenshots, etc. Anything can be a meme if people decide to alter and spread it. This definitely has potential, since you could replace the Ayn Rand quote and pic with that of whomever you wanted to say was a witch full of shit.