This is John Galt Speaking

The beginning of one of the most reviled and hated speeches of this past century in America.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOt6rUkU5xY]YouTube - "This is John Galt Speaking" #1[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKo_w-EVmU&feature=fvw]YouTube - "This is John Galt Speaking" #2[/ame]

If you wish to understand Ayn Rand's brand of philosophy, there is no clearer explanation than this. Love it or hate it.

 

The best part of the doorstop that is "Atlas Shrugged".

 

Atlas Shrugged is a great book.

But if you're going to create a separate thread for every paragraph of the book, this is going to get old quickly.

 

Save for about 50 pages, "Atlas Shrugged" is the most boring piece of crap I've ever read.

It put me off of reading fiction forever.

 

This is the meat of the book. All the rest is fluff.

She's a philosopher, not a novelist. But watching these videos is far easier than reading [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Objectivist-Epistemology-Expanded-Second/dp/0452010306"]An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.[/ame]

 

Who is John Galt?



Sorry, couldn't help myself.

 

I like some of her ideas, but yeah, AS was difficult to get through.

 

As I said, I don't get youtube at work.

And I guess we have a difference of opinion because I think as a philosopher and social theorist, Ayn Rand is a terrific novelist.

 

Based on what I could stomach of The Fountainhead, I have to agree with you 100% on Rand. As I've said before, it's a glorified romance novel masquerading as political philosophy.