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The ideology can be summed up to refusing let someone else live at your expense. Fixed that for you. I've read the book. There's quite a bit of kicking freel
by cantankerous 14y ago
The ideology can be summed up to refusing let someone else live at your expense.
Fixed that for you. I've read the book. There's quite a bit of kicking freeloaders to the curb. My takeaway was that if you didn't want to be kicked to the curb by some tough guy, you shouldn't live at his expense. Which is really some lame contrapositive of "don't let freeloaders live at your expense".
It was a terrible piece of fiction, by the way. The characters were way too unbelievable.
- guylhem 14y agoI'm sorry to say that, but I think you totally misunderstood the message. You can not fix the most important idea of the book, coming with a lenghty tirade, if you cut half of it. You think about and describe bullying. The ideas in the book are closer to refusing voluntary servitude - ala Boetie: http://mises.org/document/1218/The-Politics-of-Obedience-The-Discourse-of-Voluntary-Servitude http://mises.org/document/1218/The-Politics-of-Obedience-The... "States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn" says the above article. I'd correct that and say "the productive and growing economy" instead. Atlas Shrugged is just a story explaining that, and providing a philosophy to leave with that in mind.
- invisiblefunnel 14y agoThe characters aren't really meant to be believable. http://books.google.com/books?id=TYZaNwrIM8YC&pg=PT664&dq=ayn+rand+draw+an+abstraction+and+then+create+my+own+characters http://books.google.com/books?id=TYZaNwrIM8YC&pg=PT664&#...
- cantankerous 14y agoI guess "believable" is the wrong word. They were one-dimensional and boring. The book is a terrible description of a way of life masked as a story, and in my opinion, that's all it is.