wow, i fell asleep reading that. so yeah, no. lol On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ras Tafari <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> who is ayn rand anyway? should i care? >> > > She's an author who wrote some fantasy books. For me the worlds and > story lines she creates are mediocre, but the worst part is the > writing is slow and massively tedious. If you enjoy listening to 2 > people discuss boardroom politics for hours on end you'll love Atlas > Shrugged. > > This book is about a chic who owns and runs a railroad, but she has > problems making her company really great because of those meddling > kids. or people. or something. Plus there's a guy who owns a steel > company. And that goes on for like 800 pages. > > Exciting, huh?? > > As with all authors, she had her own Worldview that's baked into her > books that has somehow become a "philosophy" called objectivism which > - surprise! - is pretty simple. > > It can be essentially summed up as "be selfish, ignore others, do what > feels good, and that makes the World a better place". > > This is oddly similar (in other words, not odd) to the beatnik / > hippie philosophies. > > The selfish/feels good part is what applies to adolescents because > that's how they all are. It applies to many grown-ups too, of course, > depending on how much they've allowed themselves to mature. > > The books are also popular because they talk about business and > government politics and some people - again, usually adolescents or > those similar - feel they have something important to say there. > > If you'd like to judge for yourself go to any business bar, find a > couple corporate middle managers, buy them a few (let's say 4) rounds > of scotch, and ask them why they can't do great stuff > >
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