im thinking in particular of the speech by the agriculture secretary or whatever explaining to americans that of course they dont need to be eating as much as they have been, simply look at the thin gruel of the chinese, are they not men, why can we not adopt their ways
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one thing i do not recall in that book is any depiction of people getting Sick Of This Shit or of political entrepreneurs rand portrays only business people and apparatchiks as actors but in a real crisis there are plenty of opportunities for political innovators
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sailers law of male activists or something vonnegutian orientialism edition ht
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Rand's one of those writers who is terrible at writing heroes but masterful with villains
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Maybe i dont have sophisticated tastes, but Atlas Shrugged captured me, despite me beeing not really on board with her ideas. Granted, it's pretty black/white and preachy, but i felt like "FFS, shut up about how its good to let the children die, i want to know what happened next"
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"Aristocracy of Pull" a great chapter and concept. Fashionable to rubbish Rand as a thinker (and with cause), but she hit the bullseye on that one.
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I've read Atlas Shrugged and completely agree with what you said, often finding my own mind wandering back there more and more, but I originally read this as "Cloud Atlas" for some reason and I was deeply confused.
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I mean she did live through it, “write what you know”
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yup. that she did
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