re: #145 Dr Lizardo

Heh. If I were offered a choice between Atlas Shrugged or de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir, I know what I’d pick in a heartbeat.

At least de Sade is readable. And in Philosophy, he includes a section (as a pamphlet read by one of the main characters) that I’m pretty sure sets out de Sade’s worldview. Complete and utter amoralism.

As I recall, one line went “If man has been gifted with a violent nature, then surely Nature must be pleased whenever we slay one another, for such an act is most pleasing to Nature as we are using the very qualities she has endowed us with.” Or something to that effect.

De Sade has called the first Amoralist; even before Nietzsche.

De Sade was an interesting person, I’d much rather read what he wrote than to be forced to read Ayn Rand. One could almost say being forced to read Rand would be sadistic.