Posted on 02/28/2009 9:42:38 AM PST by AJMCQ
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009--Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual high in 2008 of about 200,000 copies sold.
“Americans are flocking to buy and read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day” said Yaron Brook, Executive Director at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “Americans are rightfully concerned about the economic crisis and government’s increasing intervention and attempts to control the economy. Ayn Rand understood and identified the deeper causes of the crisis we’re facing, and she offered, in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ a principled and practical solution consistent with American values."
rand escaped the soviet union and she knew her commies.
i like her 1960’s essays formerly titled “the new left; the anti-industrial revolution” now reissued as:
The sales of Atlas Shrugged are not soaring because of economic crisis, but rather because of a political crisis.
I read this 20 years ago. At that time I had a business doing about 4 million a year.
Since then I decided to shut it down and now I work by myself.
Her solutions are not too practical, but I decided to stop helping to perpetuate the problems.
these essays are about politics.
i don’t like either title.
the first essays are about the berkeley free speech movement and the new left.
these and their ilk are now in control of our government.
I never read this in college. I figured I should know what everyone is talking about. I bought the audio version to listen to on my long trips, several times a week.
I left the corporate world eight years ago and started my one man show. I am doing fine, and recently hit a gross income level that I left behind.
The funny thing is that listening to this book frustrates the hell out of me because I hear the old board meetings and internal politics that I left behind. I find myself screaming at the ipod. Not good.
Nice to meet you, Mr. Galt.
L
Her solutions in Atlas Shrugged were a literary tool used to drive home a point.
I don't think she wanted people to literally disappear into Galt's Gulch, but I am sure she would approve of doing everything you can to deny the looters your hard earned money!
Or they could be soaring because it's cheaper than toilet paper.
Or, considering how Randians operate, he could be lying through his teeth for his own personal gain.
The Fountainhead is a good read as well, it’s scary how the gradual socialist takeover of all facets of life detailed in the book mirror’s what is happening today. Individualism, success, and determination are reviled and mediocrity is championed.
Absolutely. I like the Fountainhead a lot.
Mediocracy is championed and some weird sense of “fairness” has replaced the concept of justice.
If her books give people the gumption to take a stand and say no, this is a great thing.
Alan Greenspan purportedly is an Ayn Rand fan, odd as that sounds in light of recent evens.
... but, then again, he blew up the economy, just as surely as Roark blew up his architecture, and is sending us all to Galt’s Gulch.
Is there a thesis here?
On at least 2 occasions in interviews, Obama agreed that lowering the capital gains tax will increase government revenues, but raising the tax would be "more fair."
Mark
I am doing a reread and am about half way through volume one.
Many of the things promised by Obama (and Michelle) stand in shocking parallel to what happened before and after 1933.
IMHO, I think The Fountainhead said it all. I thought Atlas Shrugged was a little tedious.
Thanks for reminding me of that book. I haven’t read the Rise and Fall since forever...probably the 70s.
Ping
I went into McDonalds with Atlas today and we did a double shrug as we listened to the busy din of spanish voices laughing and carrying on as they worked. Meanwhile we watch our co-workers drop like flies all around us.
But I forgot how much of a machine quickly develop around Hitler that did so much of the heavy lifting for the 3rd Reich.
In the present situation, Obama needs no Office of Propaganda because the MSM performed perfectly without needing to be told what to do. And Obama's "Truth Squads" and others apparently doing the same, attacking enemies of Obama without any instructions from home office.
Frightening stuff!
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