# So The Watchman's "Rorschach" was an Ayn Rand Objectivist. I never knew!

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**Created:** [April 26, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-watchmans-rorschach-was-an-ayn-rand-objectivist-i-never-knew/579720 "2011-04-26T00:42:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kim_o_the_Concrete_Jungle)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-watchmans-rorschach-was-an-ayn-rand-objectivist-i-never-knew/579720/41 "2011-04-28T00:49:12Z")

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> [@astro](#):
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> So The Watchman’s “Rorschach” was an Ayn Rand Objectivist. I never knew! Interesting. I thought he was just kind of a borderline sociopath.

There’s a difference?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-watchmans-rorschach-was-an-ayn-rand-objectivist-i-never-knew/579720/42 "2011-04-28T01:40:56Z")

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> [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](#):
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> There’s a difference?

Ayn Rand Objectivists tend to be better dressed.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-watchmans-rorschach-was-an-ayn-rand-objectivist-i-never-knew/579720/43 "2011-04-28T03:37:37Z")

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Psst, **Kim** … Post #7.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-watchmans-rorschach-was-an-ayn-rand-objectivist-i-never-knew/579720/44 "2011-04-28T04:25:42Z")

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Rorschach was not accurately enough an Objectivist to count as an Objectivist. Objectivism is American, therefore Alan Moore by definition doesn’t understand it.[sup]\*[/sup] Rorschach was a caricature of an extreme “right wing” moralist.

[sup]\*[/sup] Similarly, Oeconomics is a German science, so unsurprising that most persons from Russia, Austria, and North America both fail to understand it & deplore it as hatefully alien, hence silly things like “Austrian economics” & “Objectivism.” 😛

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