The Prophet Ayn Rand — Are YOU John Galt?

I need to download it before they take The Pirate Bay away... As a moocher that is.

 

For those of us that need a quick overview of Atlas Shrugged...

 

I don't think everything she "prophesied" has come true.

 

I have no desire to read a single word she's ever written

 

I have the same desire. I earned it by trying to read some of her words, and by listening to people gush about her philosophy. Utopian dreams do not attract me.

 

Utopian dreams are not a bad thing. Just her version of it.

 

I've wondered how Rand's Objectivist Philosophy would reply to Alain Aspect's experimental proof of non-locality.

 

I got halfway through Atlas Shrugged. I stopped after I realized that it was just going to go on and on like that for another couple hundred pages.

 

I think there could be a modern day version of this. On a day like today, the economy seems silly that Facebook, a company that I have spent $0 on, is worth more than some of the biggest companies in the world... and the financial rewards that they are getting are ridiculous compared to what the average worker makes and produces.

The problem isn't that the rich business leaders would leave like in Atlas Shrugger, but it would be the low-paid engineers and workers would leave like they said in the trailer (but isn't what Rand talked about).

The problem in the book is that it doesn't paint a good picture of how society should work with everyone included. Moochers are people too, even though I am one of the producers in the book.

 

The main problem with most followers of Rand is that they all believe they are producers and not moochers, though reality says otherwise

 

why are "prophecies" getting so much momentum these days? there are millions of people making predictions, it's not amazing that someone's going to be right

 

Why is Facebook such a surprise? How much value do you think there is, or has been, in Television? Does a Radio or Television channel cost you anything to watch (I am talking about Free to Air television here). They are, and always have been, platforms for advertising. Though there are some differences between what Facebook is and what Channel 9 is, their revenue streams are (largely) derived from the same place -- advertising.

Advertising sells the products, the exchange of which is at the heart of the economy.

 

I read all of Atlas Shrugged and enjoyed it. While I don't believe we are necessarily getting close to a day where all the top brains of the country disappear and everything comes to a halt, I do believe that the book contains some themes that in general are coming to pass, both on a local and federal level. It appears in the preview that the documentary will delve into the housing bubble, and I assume during that segment it will go into depth about the Federal Reserve and what Ayn Rand thought about fiat currency and price controls. Additionally towards the end of the book the government begins kidnapping citizens such as John Galt, I believe this can be compared to the recently passed NDAA.

Just as a local anecdote, here in King County our main form of public transportation is the Metro bus line. Metro has been losing quite a bit of money over the last few years following the recession. Some people say it's because the bus drivers are making too much money, others say it's because the riders aren't paying enough. Maybe it's both, maybe it's neither. But the King County Council's solution to the problem was to raise the fees on car tabs by $20. Yes, they decided to make car drivers pay more in order to bail out the bus riders. When I heard about this I smiled and thought about Atlas Shrugged.

 

So...I tried reading Atlas Shrugged once...and couldn't finish it. The writing was just so, so, terrible. It was like teenaged fanfic of the twilight series. I don't get it.