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I feel like I read this somewhere before... Pretty sure it was Atlas Shrugged, not the best literary work, but paints a pretty clear picture of a world where pe
by lettergram 13y ago
I feel like I read this somewhere before... Pretty sure it was Atlas Shrugged, not the best literary work, but paints a pretty clear picture of a world where people get money they don't earn.
- mkr-hn 13y agoIt's a good thing we don't make policy based on ideological literature. That rarely ends well.
- lettergram 13y agoYeah, like something by Thomas More or Carl Marx..
- johnrob 13y agoFor all of its critique, Atlas Shrugged surprisingly seems to predict where our government is headed.
- lettergram 13y agoI've posted something twice citing that book and it always gets down voted, on the other hand when I state some of the ideology of the book it gets up voted (strange). Just thought i'd share. Also, I agree it's where the government is heading. People need to learn that life is what they make it, not what is handed to them.
- drcode 13y agoIt's overall a lousy book that happened to get some obvious things right. The fact that people in her time disagreed with these obvious things does not mean Ayn Rand was particularly prescient, it just means lots of people believe obviously wrong things.
- lettergram 13y agoPersonally I agree, although I have had many friends who enjoyed the books romantic style, they also like Jane Eyre, Wuthering heights, Frankenstein, etc. Its just a style that I (and most) do not find enjoyable I guess. I do however enjoy her non-fiction. Her arguments are much more concise (12 page explain her entirely philosophy as opposed to 1025 or w.e Atlas Shrugged was).