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If you haven't read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, READ IT NOW!!!!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 10131720:MV83OTgzODRfMjk3OTQ1MjhfRDQ3RjBBMTM=] May I say something as an old man now who read this book when he was 28? "Atlas Shrugged", published around 1957, always appeals to young men and women who suddenly discover as they enter middle age that their direction and dreams about life, work and America are not going to pan out as they anticipated. The book is full of characters who only care about money and their personalities are presented as heroic by Rand but actually are part of our problem, not the solution. . Why do I say this? Because the very "Love of Money" that Rand expresses is in reality what is wrong in America. Since the publication of this unique book, America has had its fill of social parasites true! But it also has had its fill of unbridled materialism as Ellsworth M. Toohey would have said in his column in "The Banner". These people are not heroes who are saving America, they are not full rounded, mature men and women, but rather very self centered people who know and feel superior and look down on people they perceive as dumb and dumber. They only are concerned about making money, they are not the Tesla's , Westinghouse's, Edison's or Bell's of the past. Her characters create for themselves and see everyone else as leeches. They certainly have no CHARITY in their hearts, they are never men or women of faith or spend lives dedicated to the benevolence of their fellow men. They only seek to utilize they elements of this world to transform it to perpetuate profitability and "keep busy" in their vocations to the point of sillyness. Remember what Budd Fox said to Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" essentially, at what point is it enough? When do you stop driving yourself to pile money on top of money? Remember, for every Gekko there is a Wildman. Each sees themselves as members of an ever climbing circle of competitiveness to earn and pile up money, but to what end? Greater is the Dale Carnagies of this world, who, having accumulated more wealth than could possibly be spent in many lifetimes, was confronted by an experience wherein he claimed that an angel visited him and asked what he was going to do with all that he had earned? He cleverly established permanent funding for the Arts and Sciences that continue to this day. In the end, he had put back everything and left a continuing legacy. Something Ayn Rand would have cursed and turned over in her grave. [/quote]
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If you haven't read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, READ IT NOW!!!!
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