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If Atlas Shrugged

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1. I have always considered Stossel to be a whiny excuse for an investigative reporter. His reports are always incredibly biased. It makes sense he has found a home within the Fox News family of networks.

   Also, I have just placed an order on Amazon for Atlas Shrugged.

   Comment by Adam — January 15, 2010 @ 9:55 am

2. I know what you mean, Adam. I actually bought a book of his once, not realizing how weird his viewpoint was.

   Glad you’re picking up the book–I would have recommended reading THE FOUNTAINHEAD first (she wrote it first), but you’ll be okay…

   Comment by jerry — January 15, 2010 @ 10:19 am

3. Those who admire and criticize Ayn Rand’s beliefs about people standing on their own feet say she advocated selfishness, thereby greed. That implies self-centered, like the arrogant left. It is anti-individual creativity, which is not Ayn Rand. From her works, it is apparent Ayn Rand admired people who were courageous pebble-droppers, the nails standing above the boardwalk that ruling elite might trip over, who challenged the established and accepted way things were done. They were outer- and other-centered visionaries and dreamers. This is reflected in a new book due soon on Amazon called SAVE PEBBLE DROPPERS & PROSPERITY, also on claysamerica.com. She pitched for the accomplished individual and for individual freedom. Only the leftists believe individuals are bad and community, led by them, is good. They believe they are the elite who must rule and Ayn Rand opposed that. Claysamerica.com

   Comment by clay barham — January 15, 2010 @ 10:37 am

4. Remind me to get a tetanus shot next time I want to walk down the boardwalk.

   Comment by Adam — January 15, 2010 @ 2:41 pm

5. Just finished Atlas Shrugged, it was not good. I will expand on these thoughts in greater detail one evening this week (we can’t all be retired, you know), but for now I will just say that I was greatly disappointed.

   Comment by Adam — July 6, 2010 @ 8:01 am

6. Sorry you didn’t like it, Adam. (I don’t suppose you ended up reading THE FOUNTAINHEAD first, did you?) What? 100 pages of the final “radio broadcast” was a snoozer?

   I recall liking it because, at the time, these were completely “new” (although written in the 40s or early 50s) ideas I had never heard before–which coincided with my (at the time) own feelings about the importance of the individual and the wonderfulness of capitalism.

   I’ve backed off from a lot of that kind of thinking–she could get pretty “absolute” with her theories–but I still think it’s an important and (except for maybe that 100-page broadcast) mostly entertaining read. It is still on the Amazon bestseller list.

   I’m glad you gave it a try and I’ll bet that it will be a book that will “stay with you” a little, even though you didn’t like it.

   Comment by jerry — July 6, 2010 @ 8:21 am

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