• Flying SquidOPM
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    1 year ago

    There are plenty of articles going into great detail- here is one- but essentially it is a showcase for Rand’s moronic and hateful Objectivist philosophy and it has such ludicrous ideas in it as suggesting railroads would do great if it wasn’t for the pesky government getting in their way and after society collapses, the brilliant industrialists will all live in paradise just as soon as we find a way to create electricity by violating the laws of physics.

    For those who are already familiar, this cartoon summarizes the problem with Atlas Shrugged quite succinctly.

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      I wanted to read this book so I could see what the fuss was all about. I’ve never made it 80% of the way through any other book and then intentionally stopped reading it. Everything about the way it is written is so bad. The characters are all made of cardboard. The situations that arise make no sense. Pretty much everything about the book makes no sense and is just to drive the story towards whatever idiotic conclusion Rand wanted.

      When John Galt finally appeared and I realized he was just three incoherent speeches in a trench coat and not an actual attempt at writing a character, I basically abandoned finishing the book in disgust.

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        21 year ago

        Did you get to the part where Galt had a magical machine that generated power from static electricity that would power his entire society? See? All we need for an objectivist paradise is to forget about all that “science” nonsense and make it happen through willpower!

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          21 year ago

          Nah I didn’t make it that far. I couldn’t take too much of that character. It doesn’t surprise me that it gets even more ridiculous though.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      61 year ago

      Competition is a great idea to these bozos until they realize that it’s possible for them to lose.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      21 year ago

      Even if they had robots they would still need to be tooled ;)

      This would have been a welcome addition to the book.