ive never read atlas shrugged

ack

but i love to make fun of it

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Swill

me neither

Franko

on topic

101

why read the book when you can watch the film?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM

Monkeyfeet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM

Good thing that doesn't look remotely interesting so now I can never read the book and feel like I'm missing something

Monkeyfeet

I'm not taking that down.

Swill

owned on

Mr. G

oh man you've got to see the trai--aww

Brolo

oh it's ack

Seriously

They're making a movie?

Mr. G

Seriously wrote: »

They're making a movie?

yeah, it's called BioShock

BOOM

Seriously

I've actually read this book twice! Except for the speech, which I have read to completion zero (0) times.

When I was thirteen I loved it! It was like nothing else I'd read at the time (plus back then I was the worst size queen).


But years later when I got around to reading it again I was very


EDIT: Now that movie

I would watch

Raijin Quickfoot

I have zero interest in reading any Ayn Rand books.

zen-

I too have never read it

I also don't know who the fuck Ayn Rand is, Bioshock was wasted on me

Solar

I have never read that book either

I don't actually know what it's about

And to be honest I don't really care

SageinaRage

Atlas Shrugged is pretty awful, and that's really all that can be said.

Seriously

It's Bioshock minus everything cool

so


really it wasn't lost on you

trentsteel

That movie is going to be three hours long and totally self-indulgent.

GeoMitch

the trailer said it was only part 1

Brolo

I read through Atlas Shrugged once in highschool, one in a first year poli sci class.

It doesn't really get better over time.

Also, will this movie have a forty minute monologue at the end?

trentsteel

GeoMitch wrote: »

the trailer said it was only part 1

Oh sweet Jesus.

Edcrab

I have never actually read Atlas Shrugged from cover to cover but I reserve the right to point out that Rand is a terrible writer with terrible opinions

trentsteel

There's a forty minute what now?

Also, this chick's ideas have been refuted, right?

Franko

this is going to be the most boriest movie probably ever

Delzhand

SageinaRage wrote: »

Atlas Shrugged is pretty awful, and that's really all that can be said.

holy shit at first I thought you said Bioshock was pretty awful

undeinPirat

i actually should try and see if i know people who want to see this movie

Edcrab

And beat them with a large stick?

Brolo

trentsteel wrote: »

There's a forty minute what now?

Also, this chick's ideas have been refuted, right?

her ideas have been refuted many times

and yeah the book closes with a ~70 page speech by John Galt on the virtues of objectivism

In the final section of the novel, Taggart discovers the truth about John Galt, who is leading an organized "strike" against those who use the force of law and moral guilt to confiscate the accomplishments of society's productive members. With the collapse of the nation and its rapacious government all but certain, Galt emerges to reconstruct a society that will celebrate individual achievement and enlightened self-interest, delivering a long speech (seventy pages in the first edition) serving to explain the novel's theme and Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, in the book's longest single chapter.[23]

will make for some interesting viewing

Ferrus

I sometimes get the impression Rand is the only American philosopher worth mentioning. Or at least the only one that gets any kind of non-academic attention. Which is sad.

Now Rawls, that's someone worth reading.

Beasteh

teefs linked me the john galt segment a few days ago

it is far more offensive than anything i have ever seen on the internet

trentsteel

Yeah, a lot of WOMEN I bet. Fuck, now I have to study up on why this is wrong so I can bash it every time someone brings up her theories.

trentsteel

Rolo wrote: »

trentsteel wrote: »

There's a forty minute what now?

Also, this chick's ideas have been refuted, right?

her ideas have been refuted many times

and yeah the book closes with a ~70 page speech by John Galt on the virtues of objectivism

In the final section of the novel, Taggart discovers the truth about John Galt, who is leading an organized "strike" against those who use the force of law and moral guilt to confiscate the accomplishments of society's productive members. With the collapse of the nation and its rapacious government all but certain, Galt emerges to reconstruct a society that will celebrate individual achievement and enlightened self-interest, delivering a long speech (seventy pages in the first edition) serving to explain the novel's theme and Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, in the book's longest single chapter.[23]

will make for some interesting viewing

You know, if some people wrote something like this they would be dismissed as mentally-ill out-of-hand. Wow that is some fucking crazy shit right there.

Brolo

Haha wow

5.1 How long would John Galt's speech last if it was actually read aloud?

According to what Galt says later in the book, his speech supposedly lasted three hours. Contemporary audio recordings of the text confirm that this is the approximate time for reading the speech aloud.

Ferrus

Rolo wrote: »

trentsteel wrote: »

There's a forty minute what now?

Also, this chick's ideas have been refuted, right?

her ideas have been refuted many times

As has, for example, the concept of an invisible hand in economics, yet a lot of people still believe in a "free market".

Edit: What I'm trying to say is simply refuting something won't stop the believers from believing in it. Especially not Randroids.

PaPa

I don't think her ideas need to be refuted, they can just be dismissed out of hand as the ravings of a crazy person. No one would look down on you for it except for other crazy people, and fuck them.

trentsteel

I dunno, I think we'd better prepare. I mean things are bad enough already what with the damn autism thing and the damn cleansing thing

Monkeyfeet

The movie is going to be a trilogy.

So yeah the last movie could just be the three hour speech

undeinPirat

three parts

three times i have to deal with people that want to see them

Horseshoe

i read this book at the reccomendation of a girl i had started dating once

i didn't think it was a great book, but it was interesting

so i wanted to talk about it later

she opened with

"altruism sucks, right?"

at that moment i saw a person whom just read what they had wanted to

and taken this bizarre idealistic cash-topia thing

which while kinda nonsensical was an interesting thing to talk about

and just turned it into pure unfiltered selfishness

so it was over pretty quick after that


so thank you Ayn Rand

i dodged a bullet thanks to Atlas Shrugged

Edcrab

Film 1: Handling large amounts of money to make more money is the most essential and dignified occupation known to the civilized world

Film 2: Everything else is the purview of talentless drones

Film 3: Also rape isn’t a bad thing

Peter Ebel

Seriously wrote: »

I've actually read this book twice! Except for the speech, which I have read to completion zero (0) times.

When I was thirteen I loved it! It was like nothing else I'd read at the time (plus back then I was the worst size queen).


But years later when I got around to reading it again I was very


EDIT: Now that movie

I would watch

You were into gigantic dicks and dildos inside your ass at age thirteen?