Comments | strontium90: ZING OF THE DAY!

strontium90

ZING OF THE DAY!

Mar 20, 2009 12:42

From Kung Fu Monkey by way of jason0x21:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The ( Read more... )

humor, ayn rand

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ex_pathogen March 20 2009, 16:50:29 UTC

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

I fucking hated Atlas Shrugged. It's 90210 with trains.

strontium90 March 20 2009, 16:59:44 UTC

To be fair, it's a morality play. It is a highly simplified look at the world to illustrate a simplified way of seeing society.

Coupled with objectivist philosophy and put in the hands of adolescents who are incapable of critical analysis of the relative merit of the concepts, of course, it's really not a whole lot different than just handing someone a Bible and saying "here, this is what you'll live by now."

Have you been getting a kick out of the "Going Galt" movement in the blogosphere? I'm tickled by the idea that we're supposed to believe that professional career millionaires spend this much of their time posting comments to Red State and Michelle Malkin's blog, but I still say good for them. Get out of the way, and have a lovely life in Aruba or whatever other fantasy world you're running to :)

ex_pathogen March 20 2009, 18:08:16 UTC

You're kidding. They're actually going off to the magical Objectivist wonderland? It's like all of my dreams are coming true! Now they'll all be in one spot when the revolution comes!

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strontium90 March 20 2009, 16:58:53 UTC

No, but I've found it and bookmarked it for reading after I'm done with my current project for the day. Kinda longish for the moment, but thanks for pointing it out.

strontium90 March 20 2009, 17:05:48 UTC

Oh, were you talking about the comic strip? Yes, that one was amusing :)

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strontium90 March 20 2009, 18:54:16 UTC

Meddle not in the affairs of wizards...

colubra March 20 2009, 19:05:03 UTC

It probably comes as no shock that I'd read both before I was 14, huh. *laugh*

strontium90 March 20 2009, 19:43:54 UTC

I didn't read any Rand 'till I was in my 30s. Seeing as how impressionable a young man I was, this probably saved me from being a complete asshole.

Well, okay, another kind of complete asshole.

mercede02 March 20 2009, 19:15:51 UTC

BraVO.

*applauds*

-K