Thursday, October 15, 2009

Going Galt

I appreciate much (not all) of Ayn Rand's philosophy, but when you get right down to it a lot of her prose is word salad. Her other theory besides Objectivism seems to have been, "Why write a 50,000 word story when you can tell the same story in 200,000 words?"
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3 comments:

tesla said...

I was really into her philosophy in high school. I got a little dismayed in college when I started hanging around Objectivists and noticed how angry and bitter most of them were. If the philosophy is so great why are you folks so miserable? The results of the ideology do not live up to the promises.

October 16, 2009 7:35 AM
Epiphany said...

I tried to read Atlas Shrugs (many many years ago) but she lost me right at the beginning. When she made the new steel stronger, longer lasting and cheaper.

I knew damn well that in real life it would have sold like hotcakes. Why not have two out of three and introduce a little ambiguity? I couldn't even finish the book.

October 17, 2009 1:31 AM
This Blog Is Not Here said...

I'm one of those people who can say Atlas Shrugged changed their lives. It really did help shape my views on economics, politics, honesty, etc. I've read it or listened to it on tape easily 10 times. I never could get into her fiction otherwise. I DID however suck up all her nonfiction work like a sponge. Even the stuff Greenspan wrote for her...

I'm not an atheist but I do understand her views on such things. Still have some problems with her views on women. But then, I also have the same problems with my religions views on women.

October 17, 2009 8:18 PM

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