Posted on 12/19/2008 5:38:52 PM PST by mick
And yet, despite the absurdities on every side, President Bush excuses himself by saying, Ive abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. Oh ye of little faith! The free market doesnt need you to save it! Even if it happens to collapse, it will recover if you leave it alone. The habit of government expansion and intervention has now reached this final absurdity that of being saved by those who are choking the life out of it.
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It's a well written detective story with plenty of plot and atmosphere.
I've often wondered if someone could start a FReeper Book Club discussion of Atlas Shrugged on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
I just pulled down my edition from the shelf. Hard back 1957. And took a look at Part 11 beginning on page 339.
How about these chapter headings as signs of the times:
“The Aristocracy of Pull”
“The Sanction of the victim”
The Moratorium on Brains”
The woman nailed it. We’re in for quite a ride....quite a ride.
Next month after January 20 we'll transition into Chapter 2 ("The Aristocracy of Pull").
We have a long way to go to get to Part III ("A is A"), Chapter 10 ("In the Name of the Best Within Us").
It's going to be a nasty ride.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the complete novel.
Because I bought yrs ago the paperback “For the New Intellectual” that contains all the great speeches and stories in the book and read that one over and over....I’ve pretty much forgotten the on-going plot details.
Maybe I am a foolish optimist , but I can’t see the American people being so depraved as to go the whole route outlined in the book without a bloody counter-revolution. Or maybe a bloody RESTORATION is a better term.
Are we talking about the Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand here, or is there another, better-written version of which I am unware?
I've often wondered if someone could start a FReeper Book Club discussion of Atlas Shrugged on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
I've often wondered if someone could start a FReeper group dedicated to plucking out our eyebrows one hair at a time.
Jeez!
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