Posted on 11/03/2008 12:14:37 PM PST by Freestar
Ayn Rand seemed to have a thinly disguised hatred of people.
Her only admiration are reserved for power. All her heroes are Neitzchian Übermensch types.
8.1% really? That's too high. It's true that some people may have said “yes” just out of familiarity with the book although they didn't read it, or for some other reason. However, I've done the Atlas Shrugged poll two years in a row and received the exact same number. I'm not a statistician but I think this (having a sample twice as large) would help shrink my margin of error significantly.
My website being old. Sorry it's not a blog. I update it when I can but this is news on my site that is fresh as of today.
Handing out copies of Atlas Shrugged: I know a guy in Hollywood that bought 5,000 copies of the book and will give you a couple hundred to hand out if you promise to distribute them to people free of charge. (no making a profitvery ironic I guess).
Please tell Republicans, libertarians and conservatives about the philosophy of Objectivism. Freedom activists should upgrade to Objectivism the most advanced and powerful ideological weaponry to fight statism.
The claim of regulatory government is risk management. There are libertarian risk management architectures that can work. Rand had no clue how to explain them. In that respect, she failed.
Nice story with a serious warning, but no meat.
I am very pleased to be part of this minority...
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I’m a heavy reader - the type that can’t trade or throw a book away. I felt War and Peace was an easier read - though not as pleasurable. The 50 page speech by Galt at the end nearly made me give up despite being so close to the end.
I imagine it is similar to War and Peace and DeTocqvilles Democracy in America (ibid)everyone claims to have read them, but few really have. I’ve started DIA twice, but haven’t managed to push through the way I did the other two.
You are clearly WAY oversampling Republicans.
I loved AS but it takes a measure of discipline to read it through.
I agree there is a timelessness to the ideas, as is usually the case with literature. But the world in which those ideas were presented was one that in many ways seemed “past” when the book was published.
Who needs to read it? We are about to LIVE it.
I believe that we're already living it.
Who is John Galt?
I’ve not only read it, we live on Galts Gulch. Long driveways around here are named.
The person you are referring to was Murray Rothbard not Alan Greenspan, and it was about another issue unrelated to economics.
Ever meet an objectivist high school math teacher? Pretty cool. Our march through the institutions is already underway.
The Randian utopia at the end of Atlas Shrugged is every bit as unworkable as any of the “Worker’s Paradises” that the Marxists she despised fantasized about.
In the end, Rand wanted to offer humanity another version of utopia without God, and ultimately they all lead to the only place of refuge from God, hell.
Pinging Cooper.
I agree. With the high school drop out rate in virtually all of our big cities about 50%--there is no way that number is accurate.
P.S. Yes, I have read it. Outstanding book!
Scientology for right wingers.
"..that McCain was trying to make a virtue out of selfishness..."
I don't think that even Rand foresaw a radical, liberal extremist, racist and far-left, big government crusader like Hussein taking power.
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