Comments | 1144: Scoff while you can, before we give the world back to the people who wrought it.

1144

Scoff while you can, before we give the world back to the people who wrought it.

Mar 18, 2009 21:21

Atlas Shrugged selling better than ever since its year of publication.

Atlas Shrugged No. 1 seller in Amazon "classics" category.

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we have to give the world back to the derivatives traders? anonymous March 19 2009, 04:13:28 UTC

3 of Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series are on Amazon's top 10 bestseller list. Clearly this indicates we should switch to a more vampire-centric philosophical model.

I would have thought an Objectivist would be the last person to consider popularity amongst the unwashed masses as a positive thing.

Re: we have to give the world back to the derivatives traders? 1144 March 19 2009, 15:01:06 UTC

That is some seriously inferior baiting.

oslo March 19 2009, 22:53:51 UTC

Don't you think Rand would resent the way her book (and her message) is being corrupted into a populist screed?

I saw a video the other day with Glenn Beck plugging Atlas Shrugged. It struck me as highly ironic; I can't think of a single journalist in Rand's work that she portrays in a positive light. They're almost always the voice of the clamoring masses. And they are now, especially in the case of a buffoon like Beck.

I retain an affinity for Rand's characters. It drives me nuts to see a generation of do-nothing/know-nothing anti-tax twerps fashioning themselves as Galtian heroes. They have no right to that legacy; if they were ever to "go Galt," we would be just fine without the lot of them.