Critical Success - Book Review - Atlas Shrugged

I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!! I can't give it a more glowing recommendation. The book is indeed monumental, and being an author myself (please buy my book, I'm broke), I aspire to create work of such majesty. All that being said, don't let the philosophy behind the book remove your ability to think critically. Consider your intellectual options in regard to your opinions, understand the context of Ayn Rand herself, and the genesis of her personal views. More importantly, READ THIS BOOK!!! IT'S EXCELLENT

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[MrNiggerfoot]

Worst review ever. Just a brother making excuses for having his hand out. Not a review of the book at all. I don't think he actually read it.

[dsbrown3000]

@MrNiggerfoot NICE!

[NottsBenAllan]

good speech :D

As far as Altruism is concerned... Ayn's didn't say you cannot help others, she just said it should be your choice - not a moral obligation

[JCJ77]

There is a difference between altruism and charity. Giving other people something you need or want is altruism (giving till it hurts), giving other people something you don't need and don't want is charity (giving to feel good).

[bdgrey]

She did believe in helping human beings. She promoted charity, which is different from altruism. Altruism is sacrificing oneself for the benefit of another. Charity is helping someone for the mutual benefit of both parties. Charity is given because of a true desire to help. Altruism is instinctual.

[Merkkyrr]

@NottsBenAllan well to be fair in an interview she said to sacrifice for someone else is immoral. Now by who's scale it would be immoral continues to elude me, but I think we can take that as a more human extension of her philosophy lol.

[pookatim]

This amazing book is so current and feels so relevant and it was written in 1957. As far as the fact that the book is over a thousand pages, I am sure you will agree, when you reach the end you wish it was two thousand.

[medicatedsaint]

Buddha also spoke about taking care of yourself so that you can take care of others. Both are interdependent. I'll stick to Buddha.

[turtlerock100]

What we are all trying to do is to find a way to organize ourselves that allows all our people to enjoy reasonably satisfying economic and social lives. Abject poverty, rat-infested living conditions, hunger, illiteracy, lack of medical care and all the other characteristics of poverty and despair eventually destroy the very foundation upon which the mansions of the rich are built. THAT'S what's wrong with Ayn Rand's philosophy.

[dsbrown3000]

@cosg9531 Are you certain? Unlearn what you've learned. The observation effect applies.

[dsbrown3000]

@cosg9531 Sorry, inaccurate. I've turned looters into producers, and education was the very crux of the matter. Look deeper and expand your intellectual perspective and you'll find the truth of it. First, unlearn what you've learned.

[cosg9531]

@dsbrown3000 Rand stated that physical existence is independent of consciousness, which is true. What exists in the physical world exists whether we are aware of its existence or not.

[cosg9531]

@dsbrown3000 Looters never desire to become producers. They are polar opposites. Education in this correlation is irrelevant as it has no basis.