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http://www.atlasshru...d-movie-trailer
What a _itch!
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Limited release April 15th.
Trailer:
http://www.atlasshru...d-movie-trailer
What a _itch!
http://tbogg.firedog...lt-the-musical/I am the very model of a modern major industrialist
You people call me selfish, but I prefer ‘objectivist”
The looters and the moochers, they try to take what is mine
To share my genius with others, I’m afraid I must decline
I’m very well acquainted, too, with things that should be taxable
But I will not pay my fair share and on this I am intractable
Push me just a bit too far and I’ll head to Gulch of Galt
Your world will start to fall apart and it will be your fault
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Your world will start to fall apart and it will be your fault
He’s packing up his bags and he’s going to Gulch of Galt
You people are annoying and it’s harshing his gestalt
I’m very good at integral and differential calculus
Sometimes I get my numbers wrong, I think I’ll blame it on gastri-atis
You people don’t deserve me, I will not share my brain
So I’m leaving Moocherville on my private choo-choo train
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He’s leaving Moocherville on his private choo-choo train
He does not like the likes of you, on his parade you will not rain
He’s not a social butterfly, on this he must abstain
It’s not that people don’t love me, I don’t want to be a brag-ag-art
I’ve got a bitchin’ girlfriend and her name is Dagny Tag-ag-art
We have a lot of rough sex, that girl she loves to bone
But when it comes to orgasms, she has to reach hers on her own
My philosophy is workable, they call me Libertarian
I actually have no talent so I write for Reason Hit & Run
Were I to leave for Galt Gulch, I’m not sure that I’d be missed
So in the meantime I’m a mouth piece for a wealthy industrialist
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In the meantime he’s a mouth piece for a wealthy industrialist
It’s really not his first choice but he is a realist
Thank ******* he has a good idea whose {bleeeep} he is has to kiss
I am the very model of a modern major industrialist
You people call me selfish, but I prefer ‘objectivist”
The looters and the moochers, they try to take what’s mine
To share my genius with others, I’m afraid I must decline
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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Posted 31 March 2011 - 05:36 AM
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Posted 31 March 2011 - 08:15 AM
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If you've not read either Reason nor Atlas, I strongly recommend both.
Posted 31 March 2011 - 08:57 AM
So I guess "Looters" and "Moochers" can eventually kill the Golden Goose?
"It was a dead heat. General Motors sold 9.37 million vehicles worldwide in 2007 and lost $38.7 billion. Toyota sold 9.37 million vehicles in 2007 and made $17.1 billion."
Good-by Atlas!
Edited by Rogerdodger, 31 March 2011 - 09:10 AM.
Posted 31 March 2011 - 06:24 PM
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If you've not read either Reason nor Atlas, I strongly recommend both.
Yes, but given their intended and, even more importantly, successful indoctrination of so many into a particular way of thinking, it would also be beneficial to dig deeper and put all the fuss into context. I would suggest the much less read journals of the author with a rather simple and cheap point of access here -
http://www.amazon.co...i...ks&n=507846
There, one can learn from the author's own words that here protagonists are based on a prominent figure of the day (1928), William Edward Hickman, whose credo, Ayn tells us, was "What is good for me is right." Ayn exulted over this earliest of her 'supermen' as "the best and strongest expression of a real man's psychology I have heard."
Hickman was a serial killer, on trail at the time for the kidnapping and murder of a 12 year old girl; the center of a media frenzy - a sort of OJ Simpson of his time.
Rand's further take on Hickman - "born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness -- [resulting from] the absolute lack of social instinct or herd feeling. He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people ... Other people do not exist for him and he does not understand why they should."
This, of course, to those who have read her fiction, will be a familiar paraphrase of at least a few places in her books.
I would suggest that for those who have read her books, maybe even more than once, to do so again, but this time within the context that you are reading the not so veiled calling to a philosophy of a sociopath's groupie.
If that is too much reading, one might instead sit down with a bag of popcorn and watch a marathon of the "Silence of the Lambs" series to get into the proper mood to take Rand in.
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