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Like I said, opponents turn out ot universally be people who haven't read the book and who only have insults to bring to better. Notice you ares attempting to
by lzw 16y ago
Like I said, opponents turn out ot universally be people who haven't read the book and who only have insults to bring to better.
Notice you ares attempting to argue against a philosophy by using cribbed quits of prose and making the claim that the prose is bad!
- jbooth 16y agoDude, the main premise of the book breaks down into a paragraph. "Producers, not paid enough, go galt, government can't replace them, society collapses." That's 12 words. We're all intelligent here and can follow that reasoning to it's implications for our world. Now you can argue that someone needs to read the full novel and all of the not-real-world alt-historic details in order to understand that, yes, in that world completely imagined by Ayn Rand, her philosophy would make sense. But that says nothing about the applicability of the main point to the world we actually live in. If this is a discussion about fan-fiction rather than political economy, I'll yield the floor.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoThe government offered Galt any amount of money he wished, and he refused to work for them. Pay was not the issue. Further, society was collapsing even before the strikers left, which was one of the major themes of the book - regardless of the strike, society was doomed. Step 1: read the book Step 2: summarize/criticize it
- ojbyrne 16y agoI read the stupid book cover to cover, except for Galt's speech (because it was completely pointless). That was my original post. I didn't have it handy to quote from.