there were a lot of problems with Atlas Shrugged as literature but as others have observed it was masterful in its depiction of the operation of state establishments in the face of economic collapse this reads like a government pronouncement from the second half of the bookhttps://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1450410755698958337 …
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sailers law of male activists or something vonnegutian orientialism edition ht
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Does Ragnar count? She was good at evoking disgust, which sticks with you much longer than argumentation. The parable of the Twentieth Century Motor Company, the party scene, etc. I don't remember the details, just the disgust.
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Wasn’t Taggert’s lobbyist a political entrepreneur? I remember that guy finding ways to get money from all sides.
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yeah but he was just cashing out not trying to form a new political order
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As for getting sick of this, isn’t that the Gulch community? Rand’s blind spot is thinking only the ultra capable would feel that way.
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yeah thats what im getting at ig
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Its not the main focus of the book but you see that the normie people not involved in the intellectual circus tend to support John Galt when they aren't feeling hopeless and powerless
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the general angels & demons framing of Rand's work is irritating. Enterprising heroes, and evil moochers. Everyone else is faceless sheep, I suppose. "Angels and demons" is a time-honored method of collapsing complexity into binary choice "with us or against us"
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Hank Reardon and Dagny Taggart are larger than life excessively pedastalized heroic figures in the same ways the soviets portrayed workers; (low-key philo trolling comparing objectivists to communists)pic.twitter.com/G67QNRhMsu
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