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<blockquote data-quote="zghorner" data-source="post: 3547378" data-attributes="member: 35089"><p>atlas shrugged was pretty bad especially in comparison to the <em>fountainhead</em> and <em>we the living.</em></p><p></p><p>Every single "good" character in AS is the exact same...Dagney, Rearden, Frisco JG, etc...they are the exact same character only with a different name. and JGs never ending 60 page speech was mind numbing and i really love Ayn's (Pronounced EYE+n for anyone curious) philosophy. Objectivism and the virtue of selfishness are both incredible...essentially the exact opposite of Socialism/communism. Her belief is that the focus should be on the individual...its all up the the individuals to improve themselves and in so doing, your family, friends, community, the world will benefit. Whereas something like communism focuses on the collective...the individual should be sacrificed for the good of the collective...we should give all of our wages away to the government via taxes so they can distribute evenly amongst the slave class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zghorner, post: 3547378, member: 35089"] atlas shrugged was pretty bad especially in comparison to the [I]fountainhead[/I] and [I]we the living.[/I] Every single "good" character in AS is the exact same...Dagney, Rearden, Frisco JG, etc...they are the exact same character only with a different name. and JGs never ending 60 page speech was mind numbing and i really love Ayn's (Pronounced EYE+n for anyone curious) philosophy. Objectivism and the virtue of selfishness are both incredible...essentially the exact opposite of Socialism/communism. Her belief is that the focus should be on the individual...its all up the the individuals to improve themselves and in so doing, your family, friends, community, the world will benefit. Whereas something like communism focuses on the collective...the individual should be sacrificed for the good of the collective...we should give all of our wages away to the government via taxes so they can distribute evenly amongst the slave class. [/QUOTE]
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