Atlas Shrugged

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ok i thought this should go into this section cause its very much political but i would also like to discuss the other broader parts of this as well

so i just read Atlas Shrugged and i was wondering what you guys think of the political and overall philosophy of Ayn Rand?

 

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Funny you'd mention it. Since all the conservatives were talking about it since Barry and his fellow Marxists usurped the White House, I bought it (haven't had time to read it). Some friends (sort of substitute parents) stayed the weekend with us a month ago and saw it sitting there and were saying it was supposed to be this progressive utopia and that it was a Libby book, but a really awesome read. My father-in-law read it years ago and didn't pick up on that, but a Libby friend of his seemed shocked that he had read it. So now I'm really confused. I'll have to read it myself

 

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almost done reading it. can't find it to finish but when I do I'll let ya know what I think

 

[Metallic(a)sled]

Funny you'd mention it. Since all the conservatives were talking about it since Barry and his fellow Marxists usurped the White House, I bought it (haven't had time to read it). Some friends (sort of substitute parents) stayed the weekend with us a month ago and saw it sitting there and were saying it was supposed to be this progressive utopia and that it was a Libby book, but a really awesome read. My father-in-law read it years ago and didn't pick up on that, but a Libby friend of his seemed shocked that he had read it. So now I'm really confused. I'll have to read it myself

its an anti libby book its all about free market and capitalism

 

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Yup, you are right...

Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s legacy
by Nick Gillespie

Few authors have ever achieved the popularity that the novelist and essayist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) did.

With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1958, Rand became a full-blown cultural phenomenon, selling millions of books and inspiring countless readers-ranging from former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner to actress Angelina Jolie-with her moral defense of capitalism.

A refugee from Soviet Russia, Rand argued that capitalism was the best way of organizing society not simply because it was more efficient than communism but because it allowed the individual to fill his or her potential. A self-declared “radical for capitalism,” Rand emphatically rejected collectivism of all stripes and embraced “man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

Decades after her death, Rand’s work is hotter than ever.

In an age of massive government intervention into every aspect of the economy and personal lives, sales of her books are way up and a movie version of Atlas Shrugged is in the works. References to Rand are everywhere from Mad Men to The Colbert Report to The Simpsons and there’s even a new critical appreciation, as evidenced by two new biographies, Ayn Rand And The World She Made and Goddess of The Right. As Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) puts it, “Ayn Rand makes the best case for the morality of democratic capitalism.”

http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/02/rand-o-rama-the-long-shelf-life-of-ayn-rands-legacy/