"atlas shrugged" will change the face of american politics

[Liberty]

anyone here enjoy a bag of cheetos? It ain't easy being cheesey.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

anyone here enjoy a bag of cheetos? It ain't easy being cheesey.

no thanks

 

[washamericom]

part two comes out tomorrow. the reason it will change the face of politcs now is because sean hannity and jaun williams and that meathead bob beckel are in the movie. rand's core principles are reflected in the struggle between capitalism, individual achievement and the obama/chicago machine push for european type socialism.

people are tired of working hard to build something only to have the government whisk it all away.
the next stop in obama's dream train will be the confiscation of private property, to be redistributed to underachievers and the lesser economic class by a subjective elite ruling government class.

this concept was also outlined in fritz lang's metropolis. hypocritical obama lives like a king while his subjects continue to suffer. the media has an obama agenda.

if obama survives his many scandals, a second term would certainly further weaken our economy, threaten our national security, and diminish our political standing in the world arena.

 

[JakeStarkey]

America won't even shrug, wash.

 

[Uncensored2008]

America won't even shrug, wash.

You have bigger things to worry about than a movie, Jakematters.

Like the puddle of your own piss that you're fearfully wallowing in, and the fact that your Messiah® is now losing the election.

Bummer, fakey.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I have to be worry about we good Republicans crushing the far right and the libertarians once Romney has won. That the guy is on our side is going to make it much easier.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Are you drunk again and snacking on lead paint chips, Jakematters?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Study Mitt's entire life, Uncensored. He is not a Beckian, a Skousenite, or any type of Bircher. He is a businessman who understands that regulation is needed. He will support some form of ACA and expansion of Medicaid, while protecting Medicare and SS. The major issue will be Defense and how much he is willing to spend.

 

[washamericom]

America won't even shrug, wash.

we will if obama steals the election again, jake moonbeam.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Wash, you will live by what We the People decide, or you will break the and pay the price. And no one will even shrug at stupid you.

 

[uscitizen]

this is your last chance to read the book before the movie comes out.

i have waited my whole life for this. when i was in high school i discovered ayn rand, it changed my life , and much to my delight, would end up in a conservative website framed by objectivism.
i remember thinking, someday, once the internet is invented, this will be my political philosohpy and i will take it to the people..

life imitates art. we are dagney taggert and hank rearden (the protagonists) and the democratic party (led by one barrak obama... if that is your real name), is the government, and "mr. thompson".

you are going to be seeing and hearing and feeling atlas shrugged a lot in the coming time until the 2012 election.

as wonderfual as the original novel is, no, magnificient... the movie will better present to the masses, that big government is not only wrong, in this country, according to our constitution, it is immoral.

i further suggest that this hollywood production will play a large roll in unseating the president of obama, how ultimately and deliciously ironic. how do you like us now.

Atlas Shrugged Trailer - YouTube

it looks good, no, great.

Waited your whole life?
Pretty pathetic if you ask me.

 

[skookerasbil]

Atlas Shrugged has to be one of the most boring novels ever written. It goes on for over a thousand pages repeating the same thing over and over again. It doesn't have a single fully developed character, only caricatures. Started it in college and wondered why I never finished it. Thirty years later I did and know why. It stinks!!! The book isn't prophetic, it's a political screed masquerading as a novel, a very poor one at that.

Of course you found it boring.............

All far left guys find stuff like this boring because they dont peossess the ability to think on the margin. Life is all about understanding the necessary tradeoffs in decisionmaking = not a factor in liberal thinking.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Ayn Rands and their followers are the sheeple-brained or bird-brained of humanity.

Buncha fookin' loons.

 

[newpolitics]

Ayn Rand has a slanted viewpoint because of where she came from. Her complete demonization of any and all regulation or impedence to the free-market is a complete over-reaction to what she saw in her homeland, and her attempt to generalize things by means of fallacious inductive reasoning, namely, from Russia to America, is simply unsound. She tries to create a black and white world where all regulation is bad. She fails to note the major and minor details between what the effects of regulation in Russia and the effects had here. I find her ideas preposterous. Certainly, there is some truth, however little, to what she observed, and there may be a very small amount of axiomatic truth there, perhaps that too much regulation may stifle an economy, but that is it, and this is obvious and intuitive. We don't need Rand to tell us this. To take the whole thing as an axiomatic or necessary truth because she was somehow able to demonstrate this with a few novels, is fucking really stupid.

 

[Old Rocks]

Paul Ryan’s Guru Ayn Rand Worshipped A Serial Killer Who Kidnapped and Dismembered Little Girls - By Mark Ames - The eXiled

So what, and who, was Ayn Rand for and against? The best way to get to the bottom of it is to take a look at how she developed the superhero of her novel, Atlas Shrugged, John Galt. Back in the late 1920s, as Ayn Rand was working out her philosophy, she became enthralled by a real-life American serial killer, William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker in 1927 shocked the nation. Rand filled her early notebooks with worshipful praise of Hickman. According to biographer Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market, Rand was so smitten by Hickman that she modeled her first literary creation — Danny Renahan, the protagonist of her unfinished first novel, The Little Street — on him.

What did Rand admire so much about Hickman? His sociopathic qualities: “Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should,” she wrote, gushing that Hickman had “no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel ‘other people.’”

This echoes almost word for word Rand’s later description of her character Howard Roark, the hero of her novel The Fountainhead: “He was born without the ability to consider others.”

(The Fountainhead is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s favorite book — he even makes his clerks learn it, much as Vice President-to-be Paul Ryan tried making his interns read Rand.)

I’ll get to where Rand picked up her silly Superman blather from later — but first, let’s meet William Edward Hickman, the “genuinely beautiful soul” and inspiration to Ayn Rand. What you will read below — the real story, details included, of what made Hickman a “Superman” in Ayn Rand’s eyes — is rather gory reading, even if you’re a longtime fan of true crime “Death Porn” — so prepare yourself. Because you should read this to give Rand’s ideas their proper context, and to repeat this over and over until all of America understands what made this fucked-up Russian nerd’s mind tick, because Rand’s influence over the very people leading the fight to kill social programs, and her ideological influence on so many powerful bankers, regulators and businessmen who brought the financial markets crashing down, means that it’s suicide to ignore her, no matter how dumb, silly or beneath you her books and ideas are.

 

[konradv]

Atlas Shrugged has to be one of the most boring novels ever written. It goes on for over a thousand pages repeating the same thing over and over again. It doesn't have a single fully developed character, only caricatures. Started it in college and wondered why I never finished it. Thirty years later I did and know why. It stinks!!! The book isn't prophetic, it's a political screed masquerading as a novel, a very poor one at that.

Of course you found it boring.............

All far left guys find stuff like this boring because they dont peossess the ability to think on the margin. Life is all about understanding the necessary tradeoffs in decisionmaking = not a factor in liberal thinking.

Ayn Rand didn't believe in trade offs. Are you sure you understand her? It was all lock step, there's only one right way, her way.

BTW, thanks for resurrecting my post from a year and a half ago. I stand by my analysis of Rand's opus interminus.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Wash, you will live by what We the People decide, or you will break the and pay the price. And no one will even shrug at stupid you.

Would that be "we the ACORN people, Jakematters?"

 

[JWBooth]

I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The Ayn Rands and their followers are the sheeple-brained or bird-brained of humanity.

Buncha fookin' loons.

Well, not everyone can have Keith Olbermann do their thinking for them, the way you do, Jakematters.

 

[flacaltenn]

I can't go see the 2nd installment of the movie because all I can see on the screen is our fine collection of USMB leftist characters playing the villians..

No one likes to be pegged that accurately... Do they Jake????