Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
by unalone on Saturday January 10, 2009 @01:43PM
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Is it necessarily false? I mean, yes, of course it's false for the people who use the book like a cult icon, but think about the countless people who read it and got from it the moral of "it's okay to do what you feel is right, even when other people may disagree, because in the end you should trust your own feelings first and foremost." That's a very healthy thought, and it's one that I've never seen illustrated as clearly as it is in Rand's two books.
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Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
by walterk on Saturday January 10, 2009 @02:27PM
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I agree that you can come away from the book with that message (much more so with The Fountainhead). But the much more explicit one, I think, is Objectivism. :)
Though I now disagree with her philosophy, I do think she wrote inspiringly about some of her heroes. Roark and Rearden were always my favorite of the bunch.