Posted on 11/03/2008 12:14:37 PM PST by Freestar
(Los Angeles) Barak Obama and John McCain should take note of a Zogby poll released today that found that 8.1 percent of American adults have read the book Atlas Shrugged by pro-freedom philosopher Ayn Rand. This result matches the 8.1 percent result from the 2007 Atlas Shrugged survey. This poll illuminates a large segment of the American public that favors minimum government.
Atlas Shrugged chronicles an America where government has taken control of nearly all aspects of life. As society collapses the heroine follows a trail of clues surrounding the disappearance of innovators and the rise of a mysterious phrase "Who is John Galt?" A 1991 poll by the Library of Congress and The Book of the Month Club found that Atlas Shrugged was the second most influential book after the Bible.
The poll of 1,338 adults was conducted by Zogby International in October 2008 at the request of Freestar Media, LLC. The margin of error of the poll is +/- 2.7 percentage points. More information on the poll and what it discovered about Atlas Shrugged readers can be found at: http://www.freestarmedia.com
Freestar Media, LLC and its sister company Freestar Movie, LLC are currently producing a documentary movie about the health care crisis that exposes the disaster of socialized medicine and offers free-market solutions to lower costs. The movie entitled "Sick and Sicker" will be released in the fall of 2009.
Logan Darrow Clements, Freestar's president, decided to release the Zogby poll results today, the day before the election, to remind voters of the importance of protecting freedom from further encroachment by government.
Freestar Media, LLC was created by Logan Darrow Clements to produce media applying Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason, individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism to current events. The company's most popular project was The Lost Liberty Hotel, a rebellion against eminent domain abuse that involved applying the Supreme Court's Kelo vs. City of New London ruling to one of the justices who voted in favor of it.
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It needs to be 98.1%.
“Who is John Galt?”
I read it, but i felt it hurt the minimal government movement more than helped it. a little too heavy handed on the ‘rhetorical flourishes’
Should be mandatory reading in high school at the minimum.
It should be required reading in high schools across the country...............
good point! I should have given that to my kid when I was trying to get him to read it. he hated me trying to get him to read it and he is rebelling from it. sigh.
This country has a strong libertarian streak. Just look at Perot’s margins during the 90’s. Many western and southern republicans are pretty much libertarians in practice if not in name (Ron Paul for example).
It desperately needs an editor...
or maybe an abridged version. Those soliloquies just made me tired.
Lots of John Galts on this website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Obammie “wins,” there will be many many more!
A grueling read but worth the effort I must say, and when your done you can proudly display it for all to see. When noticed there are always questions about it.
I’m skeptical of that figure. People like to present themselves as educated and well-read. Ayn Rand’s writing can be tough to get through, and Americans in general would rather watch TV or surf the interweb tubes than read a book. 8.1% have read parts of it, have heard of it, have seen something about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie making a movie about it? I can believe that. But 8.1% have read the whole thing and retained enough to summarize the plot? No way.
I prefer “The Fountainhead” but any by Ayn Rand make you think (of course you need a brain), but since when does our leadership care about what we think?
When a studio wanted to make “The Fountainhead”, Ayn Rand drove a hard bargain. She demanded to be the screenwriter and that not a word of the final work would be changed. That is why the movie is more like the book than any others.
They’ve been saying that forever, but I never seem to see it.
“Just look at Perot’s margins during the 90’s.”
I wouldn’t posit Perot as a libertarian icon. Usually libertarian and free-trade go hand-in-hand.
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