it's all in Atlas Shrugged...

[washamericom]

i just watched this well made three part movie. watch it, see if life doesn't imitate art.
even scarier is the latest season of house of cards.

'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years - WSJ
www.wsj.com/articles/SB123146363567166677
Jan 9, 2009 - Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin.
10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas ...
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Ayn Rand's Capitalist Paradise Is Now a Greedy Land-Grabbing ...
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Who are the real life John Galt, Hank Rearden, Francisco d'Anconia ...
https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-real-life-John-Galt-Hank-Rearden-Francisco-dA...
In most cases, nobody. Rearden has a few points in common with JD Rockefeller but not ... Atlas Shrugged is not based on reality. Atlas is an alternate reality, ...
What will a real life 'Atlas Shrugged' strike be like? - Quora
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Net Neutrality: Yes, Mark Cuban, Atlas Is Shrugging - The Federalist
thefederalist.com/2015/03/18/net-neutrality-yes-mark-cuban-atlas-is-shrugging/
Mar 18, 2015 - Mark Cuban says Net Neutrality is torn out of the pages of "Atlas Shrugged." But this is far from the first time real life has imitated Ayn Rand's ...
More Atlas Shrugged in Real Life - Galt's Gulch
More Atlas Shrugged in Real Life - Galt's Gulch
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Jun 16, 2013 - In the novel, Atlas Shrugged, the great steel tycoon, Henry "Hank" Rearden and his assistants create a metal alloy that's stronger, lighter and ...

 

[mamooth]

Atlas Shrugged is the story of a genocidal psychopath. John Galt's poor widdle feelings are hurt, so he deliberately crashes the economy of the entire planet, causing the deaths of at least hundreds of millions.

Oddly, some people identify with the genocidal psychopath.

 

[bodecea]

Atlas shrugged is the story of a genocidal psychopath. John Galt's poor widdle feelings are hurt, so he deliberately crashes the economy of the entire planet, causing the death of at least hundreds of millions.

Oddly, some people identify with the genocidal psychopath.

And the movies were horrible.

 

[Redfish]

Atlas Shrugged is the story of a genocidal psychopath. John Galt's poor widdle feelings are hurt, so he deliberately crashes the economy of the entire planet, causing the deaths of at least hundreds of millions.

Oddly, some people identify with the genocidal psychopath.

you obviously never read it. What its about is individual freedom and oppressive government. Rand and Orwell saw the future and wrote fiction about it. Now that fiction is becoming fact.

 

[NightFox]

i just watched this well made three part movie. watch it, see if life doesn't imitate art.
even scarier is the latest season of house of cards.
.

Read the book, the movie doesn't do it justice IMHO.

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

 

[Redfish]

i just watched this well made three part movie. watch it, see if life doesn't imitate art.
even scarier is the latest season of house of cards.
.

Read the book, the movie doesn't do it justice IMHO.

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

I agree, the movie was pretty well done, but if you hadn't read the book first you would miss a lot of the meaning.

 

[mamooth]

you obviously never read it.

I admit to not reading the radio rant, but that was just 100 pages of whiny butthurt.

What its about is individual freedom and oppressive government.

If my choices were "kill a billion people" or "accept a bit of oppression", I'd choose the latter, being that I'm not a genocidal psychopath.

Rand fans all choose the mass murder option.

 

[BlackFlag]

Atlas Shrugged is a great read for college freshmen. If an adult still treats it as gospel, then their brain never developed past that.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

i just watched this well made three part movie. watch it, see if life doesn't imitate art.
even scarier is the latest season of house of cards.

'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years - WSJ
www.wsj.com/articles/SB123146363567166677
Jan 9, 2009 - Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin.
10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas ...
www.alternet.org/.../top-10-lessons-strange-mirror-universe-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged
Apr 23, 2014 - Atlas Shrugged is a work of fiction, but as far as many prominent ... to build his own real-life "Galt's Gulch," the hidden refuge where the book's ...
Read the News Today? 'Atlas Shrugged' Is Happening in Real Life ...
https://www.facebook.com/Read-the-News-Today-Atlas-Shrugged-Is-Happening-in-R...
Yes, Oliver Stone is often very, very misguided, especially with his latest conspiracy theory that the DNC is only pretending to have been hacked by the Russians ...
Greece, Germany, and a real-world version of Atlas Shrugged - The ...
www.thecommentator.com/.../greece_germany_and_a_real_world_version_of_atlas_s...
Jul 17, 2015 - Who knew the Germans were Randians? The Europe crisis in general. and the acrimonious debate in Greece and Germany now sounds like it ...
Ayn Rand's Capitalist Paradise Is Now a Greedy Land-Grabbing ...
gawker.com/ayn-rands-capitalist-paradise-is-now-a-greedy-land-grab-1627574870
Aug 28, 2014 - Atlas Shrugged readers remember Galt's Gulch as the rural refuge where Ayn Rand's RealMen of Genius spurned American socialism for their ...
Who are the real life John Galt, Hank Rearden, Francisco d'Anconia ...
https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-real-life-John-Galt-Hank-Rearden-Francisco-dA...
In most cases, nobody. Rearden has a few points in common with JD Rockefeller but not ... Atlas Shrugged is not based on reality. Atlas is an alternate reality, ...
What will a real life 'Atlas Shrugged' strike be like? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-will-a-real-life-Atlas-Shrugged-strike-be-like
May 10, 2014 - Has such a phenomenon ever happened? What will be effects of such ... Atlas Shrugged" is obviously a simplified model designed by Rand to ...
Net Neutrality: Yes, Mark Cuban, Atlas Is Shrugging - The Federalist
thefederalist.com/2015/03/18/net-neutrality-yes-mark-cuban-atlas-is-shrugging/
Mar 18, 2015 - Mark Cuban says Net Neutrality is torn out of the pages of "Atlas Shrugged." But this is far from the first time real life has imitated Ayn Rand's ...
More Atlas Shrugged in Real Life - Galt's Gulch
More Atlas Shrugged in Real Life - Galt's Gulch
Does this remind you of anything in AS? Dr. Ferris' derision of reason and thinking, perhaps? Charles Kenny asserts that luck is the primary driver of wealth (see: ...
Dr. Burzynski and Hank Rearden: Real Life Mimicks Atlas Shrugged ...
Dr. Burzynski and Hank Rearden: Real Life Mimicks Atlas Shrugged…Again...
Jun 16, 2013 - In the novel, Atlas Shrugged, the great steel tycoon, Henry "Hank" Rearden and his assistants create a metal alloy that's stronger, lighter and ...

Plutocratic Pirates' Parrot

John Galt was a pushover who, at first, was meekly willing for the corporate parasites to completely own his patent. Even worse, their heirs, who didn't even have the King Ape claim his slavemasters had. He only took what should have been mostly his own property back when the heirs started preaching socialism. That, by the way, goes against Lizardtarian preaching that the rich can even blow their money on charity as long as "It's Their Money." Rand's opponents only attack her on Preppy Progressive grounds, not on her worship of corporate bullying of creative people.

Even her choice of a mythological hero indicates her brainless submission to predatory plutocrats. Atlas was a mindless hulk who held a jungle world, war of all against all, on his shoulders, a world where man would have soon gone extinct. If she hadn't been such a Capitalist Statism mirror-image of Stalin, she would have chosen Prometheus as her mythological role model.

 

[Indeependent]

Ayn Rand was s selfish bitch who couldn't get over herself.
She was Alan Greenspan's inspiration for allowing the Housing Bubble to almost destroy the planet's economy.

 

[BlackFlag]

i just watched this well made three part movie. watch it, see if life doesn't imitate art.
even scarier is the latest season of house of cards.

John Galt fled society because he invented a new source of energy, and the people in power did everything they could to prevent the new source of energy from being produced for the sake of protecting the old sources of energy.

Whoa!!! Life really is imitating art!

 

[Redfish]

you obviously never read it.

I admit to not reading the radio rant, but that was just 100 pages of whiny butthurt.

What its about is individual freedom and oppressive government.

If my choices were "kill a billion people" or "accept a bit of oppression", I'd choose the latter, being that I'm not a genocidal psychopath.

Rand fans all choose the mass murder option.

nothing in your post is true. Are you snorting coke? No one wants to kill a billion people. WTF is wrong with you?

 

[Redfish]

Ayn Rand was s selfish bitch who couldn't get over herself.
She was Alan Greenspan's inspiration for allowing the Housing Bubble to almost destroy the planet's economy.

wrong, that was Dodd/Frank.

 

[Redfish]

i just watched this well made three part movie. watch it, see if life doesn't imitate art.
even scarier is the latest season of house of cards.

John Galt fled society because he invented a new source of energy, and the people in power did everything they could to prevent the new source of energy from being produced for the sake of protecting the old sources of energy.

Whoa!!! Life really is imitating art!

Trump, and most intelligent human beings, believe that we should be pursuing all forms of energy, fossil fuels and alternates of all kinds. When the alternatives become financially viable the free market will take over and they will be available to everyone. Having governments throw money at it only creates more Solyndras.

Spending trillions to maybe reduce the temperature of the planet .03 of a degree is just plain stupid.

But on that topic, how do you measure the temperature of a planet? How do you do it to the tenths of a degree? Manmade climate change is a hoax and a fantasy.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"Virgins"??? I thought Cato was a "think tank". [emoji57] I read Rand's books in high school, grew up and moved on.

Funny thing is, Rand was a nazi and believed in the right to abortion. LyinRyan, who still jerks off to a photo of Rand, wants to end all social and entitlement*** programs, doesn't want to admit she and her husband both got SocSec.

*** RWNJs, please try to remember the definition of the word "entitlement".




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[washamericom]

it's a story, some will miss the metaphoric points. no genocide, chicago right this minute is genocide, i doubt obama, the community organizer, and michelle robinson will never visit those bad areas again.
atlas shrugged is about groupthink with the arc of socialism. redistribution as a political goal for the left. rand simply embedded those elements into a fabulous story.

house of cards should resonate about the same for liberals. but both are true to life right now.

 

[washamericom]

i just watched this well made three part movie. watch it, see if life doesn't imitate art.
even scarier is the latest season of house of cards.

John Galt fled society because he invented a new source of energy, and the people in power did everything they could to prevent the new source of energy from being produced for the sake of protecting the old sources of energy.

Whoa!!! Life really is imitating art!

this is cool...

 

[Indeependent]

Ayn Rand was s selfish bitch who couldn't get over herself.
She was Alan Greenspan's inspiration for allowing the Housing Bubble to almost destroy the planet's economy.

wrong, that was Dodd/Frank.

Wrong...Both Parties screwed us by allowing the Banksters to approved of Entity baseed Life Insurance (JP Morgan's 1994 brainchild).

 

[Rustic]

Control freaks don't like the books

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Ayn Rand was s selfish bitch who couldn't get over herself.
She was Alan Greenspan's inspiration for allowing the Housing Bubble to almost destroy the planet's economy.

Atlas Thugged

She had a criminal mind and a desperate need to glorify Greedhead looters. She appeals to pathetic nobodies who want justification to make as much money as they can, as quickly as they can, any way they can, walking tall by walking all over people.

Her favorite slur is "moocher," yet she has no problem glorifying HeirHead parasites. At least she told the truth by making the main Socialists in her book rich kids. But she felt they were driven by guilt instead of by a drive for extending their unearned hereditary power by misleading the common people. In an atheist's superstition anointing them as God's favorites, her goal was to appeal to the spoiled brats to not feel guilty about anything and assert themselves as inheriting superior genes, so that whatever their greediest materialistic urges told them to do must be what they, and only they, deserve to do.