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can someone do a tl;dr?
After all of that Ayn Rand grows up and gets on Medicare and Social Security.
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_agai...
TL;DR; 70 pages of repeating the same thing that has been repeated 100 times in the previous 400 pages. That book could have been pamphlet. After all of that Ayn Rand grows up and gets on Medicare and Social Security. http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_agai...
I'm staunchly opposed to medicare and SS but will I take them when I retire if they're still around? Hell yes, because I should at least get SOME of my money back.
I feel the plight of my philosophy teacher now, when he has to wade through oodles of lame philosophical BS every semester while grading papers :)
Instead of offering pointless invective why not provide at least one reason why you make this comment? Atlas Shrugged has sold six million copies. That's no argument for the thesis put forward in it but its impact on a fair number of thoughtful people over the last fifty years or so at least commands, don't you think, a reasoned comment in that you felt strongly enough to post your one liner?
"Everyone should look at..." doesn't follow from "a lot of people..."
Objectivism might be worth looking in to, but that doesn't mean this book (despite being the founding text) has merit.
TL; DR: "I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. And the gratitude I get... I'm tired of pretending I'm not special. You can't process me with a normal brain!"
TL;DR; 70 pages of repeating the same thing that has been repeated 100 times in the previous 400 pages. That book could have been pamphlet. After all of that Ayn Rand grows up and gets on Medicare and Social Security. http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_agai...
Did she pay into Medicare and SS? If so, she was only getting her money back. I don't understand why this is so hard for people to understand? I'm staunchly opposed to medicare and SS but will I take them when I retire if they're still around? Hell yes, because I should at least get SOME of my money back.
Who is John Galt's housekeeper?
can someone do a tl;dr?
Really? You really should read the whole thing. Even if you don't agree with it, the Galt speech will tell you all you need to know about the philosophy of objectivism. Agree with it or not, it's not something you should ignore. There are certain political movements that have hooked their wagons up to it and are riding off in to the sunset. That makes it, at least, relevant.
can someone do a tl;dr?
Really? You really should read the whole thing. Even if you don't agree with it, the Galt speech will tell you all you need to know about the philosophy of objectivism. Agree with it or not, it's not something you should ignore. There are certain political movements that have hooked their wagons up to it and are riding off in to the sunset. That makes it, at least, relevant.