There are a lot of good things in Atlas Shrugged right up to the John Galt speech towards the end. I put the book down for a year at that point. I actually skimmed past it to finish the book. Several years later I went back and read the speech. Pretty corny.
I think Ayn had it almost right when Galt said “I will never live for the sake of another”.
It would have been much more “Christian” to say “I will never live for the sake of another against my free will.”
It would have been much more “Christian” to say “I will never live for the sake of another against my free will.”
Exactly, Ayn was mostly right. She tripped up in a few spots, probably in opposition to the Progressive/Fascism of her time.