Atlas Shrugged

“And at a certain point it does become like "Atlas Shrugged" Ayn Rand's book. It's like why am I carrying this burden?”

“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”

“and you know quoting Atlas Shrugged I said I'm gonna put a stop to this once and for all”

“what is that in in atlas shrugged although all the wealthy high high rent like high merit meritocracy people are just like we're out”

“i was in my libertarian phase and i purchased a copy of atlas drug i just couldn't do it”

“you think about ein rand's book you know like atlas shrugged”

“all the timcast viewers have to find the time to read Atlas Shrugged”

“let's use a really good example like i mean you know a lot of people even rag on iron rand's argument through uh atlas shrugged it's like at some point in time the people providing are gonna stop doing it”

“what you've been arguing for is exactly what iran proposes an atlas shrugged you need to shrug off the weight and leave them to their chaos”

“do we need like a atlas shrug type scenario where all the wealthy industrialists flee to a secret location to be free from the oppressive government”

“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?”

“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”

“uh it took a 12 years to write an X book Atlas Shrugged uh and that book became an instant bestseller you know Publishers competed for it and then she spent the rest of her life that was published in 1957”

“For example, my my favorite book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand one of the heroes is somebody who figures out how to get shale to work”

“understand the world should read Atlas Shrugged.”

“And just as an example in the book Atlas Shrugged which is is is my favorite book one of the heroes Ellis Wyatt discovers a method for getting oil out of shale and 50 years later this actually happened.”

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

“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”

“Have you read Atlas Shrugged? No. It's my favorite book. It's no book's a perfect answer and there's a lot about the book I don't like.”

“I will say Atlas Shrugged is an extraordinary book”

“Like, are we like, is this Atlas Shrugged? Who do you think built society, right?”

“and this is one of the John G you know Atlas Shrug kind of moments for an economy if you make it too easy to just sit on your money and collect a coupon or you make it too arduous to build a business because of red tape”

“would you call this the Atlas Shrug the Atlas Shrug effect is investment goes down”

“I've just been rereading out the shrug which I do oddly enough about every 15 years years and I figured out one of the core problems with her Doctrine it might be the core problem”

“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.”

“I can't remember the gentleman's name but Wyatt that's his name he's even got a cowboy name Wyatt”

“In fact you talked about you yourself rereading Atlas Shrug I do that with about the same frequency and the last time I did three or four or five years ago”

“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”

“every time I guess I've read atas Shrug three or four or five times I don't mean to be too offensive toward Rand followers”

“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”

“that's what atlas shrug is all about the whole book”

“There's a whole [ __ ] book about this called Atlas Shrugged. Okay, it it's but people won't read it because it's long. I mean, [ __ ] dude. Go into chat GPT or whatever and ask it to summarize it. Like, [ __ ] if you're that lazy, summary.”

“The supersonic is actually mentioned in Galt's speech once. And that's 1958, right? 1957, I think. Yes, 1957. Um, yeah, I mean the the passage is about the moral, you know, moral conditions and, you know, motivation. Uh, and it basically says, you know, you can't have a socialist create a supersonic airplane. You need to have a capitalist with”

“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”

“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”

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

“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 it kills a lot of people”

“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.”

“Um, but the project I am the most excited about is that The Daily Wire has acquired exclusive rights to adapt Ran's Atlas Shrugged into a television series.”

“I don't think you can make Atlas shrugged and do I I hope I hope they do shot forshot that one like 70 page speech that what's his name goes on.”

“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”

“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.”

“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”

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

“and unfortunately it's iron Rands at the Shrugged um he is so blown away by Miss rand's prose that he converts from Marxism to laissez-faire capitalism overnight”

“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”

“Have you ever read the book Atlas Shrugged? I said, "No." He said, "Have you ever heard of it?" I said, "No." He says, "Do you know who Ayn Rand is?" I said, "No." Went into his office without saying a word. Went into his office, got a copy of Atlas Shrugged, brought it back to me, and he said,”

“Ferry Atlas shrugged. They'll say after things settle down we'll get back to a state of normaly supply and demand”

“I often talk about how I really like Ian Rand and I really like Atlas Shrug”

“san francisco we're basically an atlas shrugged i mean the uh you know half the storefronts are closed they're boarded up”

“Have you ever read Atlas Shrugged? Of course.”

“okay I was going to say un R okay yeah so but it's funny because that book that book was very transformative in my early 20s um and when I was a young man it was huge to me you know when I read out I Shrugged I was I was so overwhelmed by the diagnosis that it provided on”

“OLIVER: [...] but if we accept that Atlas Shrugged is singular, then yes, she’s a late bloomer.”

“the the pity with Atlas Shrugged is she was uneditable by that time and she really needed to be edited”

“people who just think oh she wrote these long ranting novels um about capitalism and i think there was more to her thinking than most people realized so underrated”

“Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged", you know the book, "Atlas Shrugged" or "Fountainhead". I get asked on podcasts like this, like which one is your favorite books? And I'm like "Atlas Shrugged". So I guess there's an Ayn Rand society that reached out to me and said, oh, I know that your favorite book is "Atlas Shrugged,"”

“and i read um anne rand in high school um and not suggesting that uh that she's gotten everything right but one one interesting thing that she did propose was that there's there could be something noble in business be you know being a successful entrepreneur could be a noble thing”

“from Ein rand's Atlas Shrugged supposedly she said it is not a novel to be tossed side lightly it should be thrown with great force”

“Ein ran on on impact and and growth”

“i just finished this summer uh reading for the first time because i didn't read it young atlas shrugged”

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

“A lot of people, when they read Atlas shrugged. Actually have. They are at least willing to consider it. Yup, I agree. It's powerful book. and you're when you're young, right? The the I mean. There, there, there. There are problems with it. It's very long, and i'm I always worry when I assign. Atlas shrugged. Because if you're Michael”

“It feels there's so many times when reading Atlas Shrugged where it's really clear that that it's no longer this character talking. It's just her insert.”

“so and i think it's also some atlas shrugged going on you know i think there's there's some aspect to it”

“This is shades of iron rand. I know this guy must love Atlas Shrugged.”

“I don't know if they're gonna play those games like Atlas shark you ever read Atlas”

“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.”

“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 then he also fancied Ein Rand – the author of you know Atlas Shrugged and and Fountain Head and he Incorporated many of her beliefs regarding objectivism into his philosophy”

“I think we've had this conversation previously, which is that I've probably read Atlas Frye, like every two years, but like 15 years. Right. And I look back and I wish that I'd understood it better as a teenager”

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

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

“It's not a political party, but a social organization that spread this idea, like the idea of Ayn Rand. And Ayn Rand is sort of a philosopher with her idea.”

“You can't take a copy of Milton Friedman and throw it at them or Atlas Shrugged.”

“and uh certainly Atlas Shrugged even though it's a controversial book, but Ayn Rand comes up a lot in terms of developing a sense of personal agency.”

“uh i think atlas shrugged in particular it was highly prophetic and it's become underrated as sociology”

“they're sitting in different chairs reading and the books that I saw them reading were Atlas Shrugged the boys who challenged Hitler The Da Vinci Code and unbroken”

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

“I went to a Catholic Jesuit High School and I kind of became atheist in that process I started reading Ein Rand so was very very very very very conservative”

“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.”

“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”

“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 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”