Comments on: Pillars of Creation http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/398 Bad running advice, boring family stuff, and technology few find interesting Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:48:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark A Hershberger http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/398/comment-page-1#comment-37980 Mark A Hershberger Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:52:43 +0000 http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/398#comment-37980 I always thought that using fiction as argument (a la Rand) was pretty lame. A story can be very persuasive. But if you write a story to persuade, it'll probably end up being very heavy handed. I much prefer the arguments Tolkein makes against industrialisation in LOTR (even though I think I disagree) to the arguments Objectivists make in their stories. But maybe that is just because I find Objectivism so completely distasteful. I always thought that using fiction as argument (a la Rand) was pretty lame. A story can be very persuasive. But if you write a story to persuade, it’ll probably end up being very heavy handed.

I much prefer the arguments Tolkein makes against industrialisation in LOTR (even though I think I disagree) to the arguments Objectivists make in their stories. But maybe that is just because I find Objectivism so completely distasteful.

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