Posted: 10/10/2008 8:58:35 AM EDT
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Anybody else feel like we are living Ayn Rand's fiction? Who is John Galt? Polytech |
It never gets good. It's a huge unflushable piece of crap. I'd rather read a wiki entry than reread the book. wiki Or a note from someone who disrespects the book. Don't know who North is but enjoyed his criticism. north note |
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TL:DR version 'Atlas Shrugged' isn't about economic policy so much as what happens when we stifle individuality under the guise of the greater good. All of Rands books are more about her philosophy than the storyline, none more so than Atlas Shrugged where the plot and characters are merely a conveyance to expound her treatise on individuality. All too often people look at it as an economic treatise for capitalism (like the North dissension above) and miss the fact that the main underlying theme is the individual vs. society. Rand does a better job of describing this in her first book 'We the Living' since it is set in early Soviet Russia. It is too obvious to not see how a communist society overrides the individual. In 'Atlas Shrugged' she shows (repeatedly and to the detriment of the story) how even in a so-called capitalist society the individual is subordinate to society, and the eventual end that such a position brings forth. yak |
| She puts forth the rationale for staunch individualism vs. socialism. It is a good read;however, it can take some time to get through. She does a pretty good job of describing the breakdown of a government and society burdened with the weight of taxes and government taking control of everything. Ithink she does a great job of showing what all of the govt. employees are like. Definite similarities to current times in the USA. |