Ayn Rand is really terribly useful in the era of attention starvation: As soon as you discover someone is an admirer, they can be safely filtered from your input stream. -T
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Kunal Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > i heard this as a 'dialogue' in a movie i saw recently. and i completely > agree. LOTR is surely not for kids, it is strictly for geeks. no? > > atlas and his shrugging is for atlas. > > mere mortals should have filter kaffee. > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Read this today: >> >> There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kld’s life: >> The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream >> that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood >> in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real >> life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs. >> >
