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Atlas Shrugged had a profound influence on me, too. It is a treatise on selfishness. A stench of arrogance leaks out from every paragraph. It showed me the wor
by robga 3y ago
Atlas Shrugged had a profound influence on me, too.
It is a treatise on selfishness. A stench of arrogance leaks out from every paragraph. It showed me the worst of the worst. What not to be. I like to think reading it made me a more empathetic, social, caring person. It also awakened my antenna to the vileness in people that may lie just below the skin.
That is was excruciatingly badly written was a bonus. It showed me that dangerous ideologies are persistent enough to survive laughably poor communication.
- bwb 3y agoIt had a profound influence on me as well, I read it as a celebration of creativity and the human spirit. I never got the weird cult stuff that has emerged from it. I thought it was well written though. She just has a weird style; I kinda dug it. I would call it writing Brutalism, and it was very clear and to the point.
- maxilevi 3y agoWhat did you think about the Fountainhead?
- JohnnyHerz 3y agoFountainhead is just as good and a much easier read. I used Fountainhead to introduce my kids to Ayn Rand and as a warm up to Atlas Shrugged.