Who is John Galt

LadyJazzer wrote: I'm sure you would think that....

Mein Kamp has been in print longer than Rand, and still sells books... That doesn't mean [fecal material].

Objectivism, i.e., "I've got mine--screw you", has certainly been around a long time... However, "Atlas Shrugged" was still a lousy book, and thinking that somehow the teabaggers will ride in on the wings of a bad book--and a bad movie--is just what I would expect....

You are responding to what you think I meant, not what I said. I meant what I said, not what you read.

LadyJazzer wrote: "Atlas Shrugged" was still a lousy book, ....

Pretty robust sales for a lousy book.


"Interest in Rand and her philosophy is on the upswing. Since the 2008 presidential election, according to Brook, the novel Atlas Shrugged has sold more than 1 million copies,"

neptunechimney wrote:

LadyJazzer wrote: "Atlas Shrugged" was still a lousy book, ....

Pretty robust sales for a lousy book.


"Interest in Rand and her philosophy is on the upswing. Since the 2008 presidential election, according to Brook, the novel Atlas Shrugged has sold more than 1 million copies,"

Not really surprising, when times are bad, people like fairy tales.

Look what crept from its crypt

Baileyboy wrote: Look what crept from its crypt

That's Ms. "crept from it's crypt" to you babyboy.

gee babyboy, I see you have changed your avatar......a horny man in tights...yep, it suits you perfectly.

archer wrote:

neptunechimney wrote: ["Interest in Rand and her philosophy is on the upswing. Since the 2008 presidential election, according to Brook, the novel Atlas Shrugged has sold more than 1 million copies,"

Not really surprising, when times are bad, people like fairy tales.

Finally, a real democratic accomplishment.

I remember reading Ayn Rand back in the late 70s early 80s she was an Epistemologist and one book she wrote made me think a little different. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. Very interesting reading and makes you think about your choices and how you think about things.

Reading Ayn Rand has helped me to understand better what I already knew because she was better able to define and help me to recognize the looter/parasite/exploiter when I hear/see him/her.

She helped by defining for me the best moral code that I try to live by- be the producer, not the looter. Don't be fooled by the false morals that the socialist society will indoctrinate us with- the true moral is that your labors do not belong to the state- your labor belongs to you by every right that is moral. Others claim to your labor or wealth is wrong by every measure- they are the looters- the parasite and the exploiter- despite what they would like to have you believe.

And she helped me to see why society as a whole would be so much better off without the welfare state and false economy it creates.

I read Ayn Rand years ago, as well, and was lured in by her romantic philosophy. But then I realized that there are those in the world that are unable to take care of themselves. She had no answer for that, as far as I could see. We may all be created equal in the eyes of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, but in actuality, we do not all have the same ability to rise to the top.

Plus, I didn't appreciate her views on women as objects, especially when she wrote the rape scene in The Fountainhead. Also, there was a phrase in Atlas Shrugged where she insinuated that a wife/mother's room & board was in exchange for sexually servicing her husband. That shut the door for me.