Atlas Shrugged

“and of course after the Fountain Head she starts on what turns out to be magnos Opus which is at Shrugged uh which takes her 12 years to publish by the time of course she brings that out every publisher in New York wants to publish it”

“so I would recommend everybody read Fountain Head and Aly shrug”

“and there's a sense in which irand reminds them that they gave up”

“and I think she does put for the ideal woman in in in in Atlas Shrug in the character of dagy”

“so the objectivism was born born out of the later parts of alas shrug”

“where in um you know Atlas shrugged the the bad people are all the people who imitate they're the secondhanders”

“where in um you know Atlas shrugged the the bad people are all the people who imitate they're the secondhanders”

“and then the last decade it's it's in many ways felt you know much more correct it was you know there's a in an Atlas Shrugged there's a the trying to find who you know who is John Galt”

“in an Atlas Shrugged there's a the trying to find who you know who is John Galt the clues eventually take them to the state where everything has gone haywire is the state of Michigan and there's this great company the 20th century American Motor Company sort of a thinly disguised General Motors that had just gone bankrupt”

“they used ein rand atlas shrugged as kind of like an artistic pretext and like ideology”

“and we're talking about who is john galt as a reference to atlas shrugged i believe an iran novel and a group of capitalists that has decided they've had it with societies overbearing arches and want to go create their own magical community on staten island”

“What do you think about Rand objectivism, Atlas Shrugged?”

“Yeah, maybe, and I will admit that I've never read "Atlas Shrugged", I've never finished it. I've watched the movies, which I enjoyed and I know the basic plot”

“I will admit that I've never read "Atlas Shrugged", I've never finished it. I've watched the movies, which I enjoyed (laughing) and I know the basic plot, and I kind of liked the idea of Gulch-Gulch”

“if and if you read atlas shrug before reading the fountain head you're doing yourself an enormous disservice”

“if and if you read atlas shrug before reading the fountain head you're doing yourself an enormous disservice don't you dare do it on the philosophical”

“Gerald Ford came to speak and Edward Teller came and gave his mutual assured destruction speech, and everyone was, Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged" and all that, pretty much what you'd expect.”

“I mentioned everybody read "Atlas Shrugged," right? - Yeah.”

“So I was reading Atlas Shrugged because he said we got the shrugged not because some political guy did I didn't know who Ron Paul was”

“so I was reading Atlas Shrugged because he said we got the shrugged not because some political guy did”

“I've always felt that like there's an interesting parallel or contrast between the allegory of the cave which we're talking about and Galt's Gulch in in Atlas Shrugged.”

“I appreciate you're saying that. It's a weird again, I have a weird relationship with my ego on this, but I think back to like my days in college and I was reading my favorite book, which is Atlas Shrugged. And my my favorite character in Atlas Shrugged is this guy Hank Rearen, uh, who is this sort of combination”

“I mean, look, we're we're living through the same version of that, but just the the book is [ __ ] Atlas Shrugged.”

“also just books like um outl Shrugged and you know these kind of things”

“But can we stay in the mythic register with "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged?"”

“remember when they were all um conservatives and were reading ion Rand what was was that that was that was kind of uh B from Bush to Obama and that became really unpopular overnight that like everybody was handing out Atlas Shrug to to their employees”

“i read it in high school i read the fountainhead in high school and atlas shrugged but that's at this point”

“Nick, you just gave me like a three minute sort of Atlas shrugged ending sales job for Locals because that's exactly what I'm trying to do with Locals we're building escape hatch while I'm yelling”

“you read atlas shrugged and like changed your life oh yeah the fountainhead really changed my life when i first read that And then atlas shrugged it's like that on steroids”

“and then atlas shrugged it's like that on steroids”

“it's called atlas shrugged um which uh atlas drug is pornography i mean it is i will not i will not defend the i will not say atlas shrugged is a well-written book it is entertaining to read certainly just like pornography the production value isn't great”

“and of course in that journey that I was telling you about where I had to find my own identity reading Atlas Shrugged was really the pillar of strength and helped me identify my own sense of life but the way I read Atlas Shrugged you'd find very funny is in colleges in India if you're a guy and you”

“and of course in that journey that I was telling you about where I had to find my own identity reading Atlas Shrugged was really the pillar of strength and helped me identify my own sense of life”

“So it's just the irony; it reminds me a lot of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand where you have the really effective businessman who all the bureaucrats absolutely hate.”

“But it's funny because look, and I get by the way, Alice Shrugged, fair, you know, you can play with that.”

“Now here's my issue: I’ve read Ayn Rand's books, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, a few times, specifically in the last couple of months.”

“I've just been rereading Atlas Shrugged, which I do oddly enough about every 15 years, and I figured out one of the core problems with her doctrine; it might be the core problem.”

“Rereading Atlas Shrugged four or five years ago ironically is what made me realize my own deficiencies in thought about the free market and a couple of other shibboleths of the right, which is to say that so many very thoughtful men and women who are devotees of Rand make the mistake that she's making, and they haven't thought through”

“They're sitting in different chairs reading, and the books that I saw them reading were 'Atlas Shrugged,' 'The Boy Who Challenged Hitler,' 'The Da Vinci Code,' and 'Unbroken.' This is all without us saying you need to read any of these books.”

“I think this is right out of Atlas Shrugged, where if you've ever read that book that begins with like a train wreck that, in that case, kills a lot of people.”

“the general idea is um Galt Gulch the powerful Elites basically leave let's let the system rot because it's gone astray and people want stupid things and then the people who are productive dip out”

“I think once I hit high school and college, I had my edgy, libertarian-esque high school phase of reading Ayn Rand and figuring out that, 'Oh my God, nothing in life matters except for class and money; that's actually the answer to everything.'”

“They're debating two books: one is one form of economy, the other book is another form of economy. They're debating 'Atlas Shrugged' and the 'Communist Manifesto,' which is kind of like the complete opposite of religions in economics.”

“So it took me two summers to just finish this summer for the first time because I didn't read it before—Atlas Shrugged. Yeah, so I mean you're a thousand something pages into a pretty—what did you think?”

“I remember when objectivism was on the rise when I was at Pepperdine. I mentioned everybody read "Atlas Shrugged," right?”

“but I could I could see where the outcome of that's like eff it Atlas Shrugged I'm out I'm we live in the woods”

“back in 2019 a real life character straight out of Atlas Shrugged passed away”

“back in 2019 a real life character straight out of Atlas Shrugged passed away”

“has ian ever read atlas shrugged i feel like a lot of the questions he asks are mirrored by situations in that book”

“has ian ever read atlas shrugged I feel like a lot of the questions he asks are mirrored by situations in that book”

“i read it in high school i read the fountainhead in high school and atlas shrugged”

“so there's also atlas shrugged and then you know the the geographical atlas”

“you named your dog atlas yeah that might be what they're referring to was it because you're a fan of like the the greek mythology is it was that less greek is that greek atlas was the king of atlantis he was the king of the world the first same guy yeah he was the first king of mauritania which”

“and now there's even a photo going around with one of the soldiers laying down and reading atlas shrugged inside of the capitol”

“objectivism is the philosophical system developed by Ein Rand that she first expressed in her fiction books The Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged and later in non-fiction essays and books”

“as a side note let me say that I first read Atlas Shrugged and the Fountain Head early in college along with many other literary and philosophical works from n haiger Kant lock Fuko wienstein and of course all the great existentialists from kard to kamu”

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“people who make movies like God's not dead and such like that where they where it's literally like an anran novel”

“well this goes to we've got a little Atlas Shrugged here right”

“you want an iron Rand book I've got nine more you know”