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.
