Posted on 07/02/2009 1:14:55 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
The Significance of Ayn Rand's Novel Atlas Shrugged From The Ayn Rand Institute
"I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money."
The U.S. economy is in shambles, with every nightly newscast bringing word of new government interventions. Americans are alarmed and desperate for answers: How did we get here? How will we recover? That might sound like a description of today's world, but in fact it's also a sketch of the world Ayn Rand created in her classic novel Atlas Shrugged.
The tea parties testify to the outrage that many Americans feel toward Washington's explosive growth in the past few decades -- especially under Presidents Bush and Obama. Atlas Shrugged not only gives voice to this outrage, it provides both a profound explanation of the cause of today's crisis -- and a positive, radical solution to it.
Why is it that every problem seems to call for increased government intervention at the expense of freedom? Why is it that businessmen inevitably take the blame for any crisis? Why are the most competent, most successful Americans smeared as greedy and selfish? To these questions and many others, Atlas Shrugged gives answers unlike anything you've ever heard.
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I’m reading Shrugged now for the first time,
after hearing about it for so very long.
It’s timelessness is seen in the fact that,
even though it was written in 1957, the
reader gets the sense that it is talking
about events and personalities of today,
now, 2009, these people, this administration,
these events and these policies to “address”
them.
Wow. Must read, and we need to take the
book’s warning seriously.
It’s politically incorrect to hate anyone,
with the exception of the people who have
the proven ability to make business investments
succeed, which just so happens to increase
employment and promotions.
It’s not a coincidence since government power
increases with increased dependence on the
government among the populace.
In other words, Obama, Soros, Moore, et al.,
want you to be on government welfare of some
sort or another. It cements their power.
I read the book shortly after it first came out in the late fifties. I read it again around 1970 (paperback) and my wife purchased the hardbound volume for me about five tears ago.....and I promptly read it again.
Each time I read the dang thing it seemed as if it was referring to the current time and events.....proving that things never seem to get better. I guess that's why we always long for "the good ol'e days".
Our First FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165176/posts
and this...
Atlas Shrugged Tops Amazon’s Bestseller List
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228344/posts
A very prescient book.
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