Honestly, while the message of Atlas Shrugged is unquestionably true, the narrative itself is a struggle. The book is 1000 pages and could be half that long. Strange because Rand's nonfiction is clear, crisp, and direct. (The Virtue of Selfishness is probably the most profound book I've ever read.)
There's two types of people who wind up loving her. People who already agreed with her but didn't have the words for it, and people who she freed from the chains of altruism who couldn't believe ideas like hers existed.
I was one of the latter. I read AS before I knew she was also a philosopher, and it was the truest, most inspiring, and most profound thing I had ever read.
Most of her philosophy is so glaringly self-evident, no wonder it shocks the left.
All transactions are the result of either cooperation or coercion.
The former is better.
And for that, people called her a dangerous misanthrope. Those postulates alone are enough to draw the ire of people like Barack Obama and the white-tower cementheads at the New York Times.
shes hated because her books are the most boring political fantasy ever written
I can count on one finger the number of people I've met who say "she was boring" who aren't crazy leftists.
Honestly, while the message of Atlas Shrugged is unquestionably true, the narrative itself is a struggle. The book is 1000 pages and could be half that long. Strange because Rand's nonfiction is clear, crisp, and direct. (The Virtue of Selfishness is probably the most profound book I've ever read.)
She was getting paid by the word...
i.e. she's a smart capitalist!
I can empathize with that.
There's two types of people who wind up loving her. People who already agreed with her but didn't have the words for it, and people who she freed from the chains of altruism who couldn't believe ideas like hers existed.
I was one of the latter. I read AS before I knew she was also a philosopher, and it was the truest, most inspiring, and most profound thing I had ever read.
Most of her philosophy is so glaringly self-evident, no wonder it shocks the left.
And for that, people called her a dangerous misanthrope. Those postulates alone are enough to draw the ire of people like Barack Obama and the white-tower cementheads at the New York Times.
And she wrote all this in her second language.
You must not know many people who have read the entirety of the 55-page John Galt speech, then.
I have. It blew my mind and I had to read it a second time. :P
Tbh I gave up on the book about halfway through, does the Galt speech redeem the rest of the story? Does the speech hold up on its own?