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I thought it drug in the middle, and really drug during Galt's speech...god that's long. But it seems to be getting really good at the moment, I've got one CD left.
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Mr. Garrison: Kenny, would you please climb that ladder and take down the star above the stage?
I thought it drug in the middle, and really drug during Galt's speech...god that's long. But it seems to be getting really good at the moment, I've got one CD left.
i had forgotten about the speech. yeah, that didn't drag, it just flat out sucked.
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Good book, interesting read, read it years and years ago in college.
Wrote a paper on it and then and now I've always felt it was one of the most oddly empty books I'll likely ever read.
I never could put my finger on it but I agreed with tons of it's message, however in the end I finally figured out what it was it's missing.
A soul.
Money and production are only so important, the older you get the more you realize that, people are basic hunter gatherers, we're happy with a few nuts and berrys and that's it.
Ambition is great to an extent, however you could be a monk who did almost nothing and owned almost nothing and still be happy.
Also see Jesus.
The trick in life as in anything is balance, IMO her world view is skewed as much or more so as the very people she's railing against for sucking off the machine.
She makes passing mentions of Janitors and such to avoid looking as if she's totally going off the deep end, which IMO again just means she's vaugely aware there might be a problem with her thinking.
I still think it's a very interesting book, if nothing else it was fun for me all these years trying to figure out what it was about that book that kept bothering me.
Study Alan Greenspan sometime, he knew her and they were friends, she called him the maestro and other such nonsense, and if you follow him closely, he went from being responsible to perhaps the arbitor of our complete financial destruction by just simply corrupting himself with his own ego.
Ironic that she would be friends with a man who presided over our own financial destruction, and no I don't feel he did it on purpose or that he's solely at fault at all.
The most ironic part is he let the very forces she railed against overwhelm him, he never could be stern when he needed to discipline those folks, very ironic.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
~Abraham Lincoln Lyceum Address
Last edited by conraddobler; September 29th, 2007 at 05:06 AM.
Good book, interesting read, read it years and years ago in college.
Wrote a paper on it and then and now I've always felt it was one of the most oddly empty books I'll likely ever read.
I never could put my finger on it but I agreed with tons of it's message, however in the end I finally figured out what it was it's missing.
A soul.
Money and production are only so important, the older you get the more you realize that, people are basic hunter gatherers, we're happy with a few nuts and berrys and that's it.
Ambition is great to an extent, however you could be a monk who did almost nothing and owned almost nothing and still be happy.
Also see Jesus.
The trick in life as in anything is balance, IMO her world view is skewed as much or more so as the very people she's railing against for sucking off the machine.
She makes passing mentions of Janitors and such to avoid looking as if she's totally going off the deep end, which IMO again just means she's vaugely aware there might be a problem with her thinking.
I still think it's a very interesting book, if nothing else it was fun for me all these years trying to figure out what it was about that book that kept bothering me.
Study Alan Greenspan sometime, he knew her and they were friends, she called him the maestro and other such nonsense, and if you follow him closely, he went from being responsible to perhaps the arbitor of our complete financial destruction by just simply corrupting himself with his own ego.
Ironic that she would be friends with a man who presided over our own financial destruction, and no I don't feel he did it on purpose or that he's solely at fault at all.
The most ironic part is he let the very forces she railed against overwhelm him, he never could be stern when he needed to discipline those folks, very ironic.
though i won't venture into the greenspan comments, i think you hit the proverbial nail on the head with the rest of your commentary. logically every argument rand makes in the book makes sense. individually each argument is appealing to the intellect. however if you have a heart you understand that the sum of each of these logical arguments means leaving your brother behind if he's getting too heavy. soulless indeed. still, an incredible read.
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