I’ve heard that “Atlas Shrugged” is near the top of the list of abandoned books, so I decided to force myself to finish reading in prior to the release of the 3rd movie (I made it by about a week!). I wish I’d read it 30 years ago, but it would not have had the same sense of irony and that we are actually living the decline of a nation that Rand wrote about half a century ago. The bills cited just underscore the fact that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
I bought Atlas Shrugged about ten years ago on a whim at an airport bookstore to while away the hours in departure gates. Took several weeks to finish. While reading I kept saying to myself, holy crap, that’s happening.
I wished I read it as a teenager. Rand explains a lot. I have a few differences with her but not many.
I AM HANK REARDEN but without Dagney and the steel alloy.
I plan to close up shop in the next 12 months. If that is not enforced by economics and the terrible Ebola induced crash I see coming it will be by choice.
On the present course movement in this country is going to stop dead in its tracks.