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Uploaded on Aug 19, 2011

SPECIAL SCREENING EVENT JANUARY 17! Get tickets at http://atlasshrugged-thedoc.com Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged is a feature length documentary film that examines the resurging interest in Ayn Rand's epic and controversial 1957 novel and the validity of its dire prediction for America.

Set in what novelist and philosopher Rand called 'the day after tomorrow,' Atlas depicts an America in crisis, brought to her knees by a corrupt establishment of government regulators and businessmen with political pull.

Despite critical scorn and continued derision from intellectuals on all sides of the ideological spectrum Atlas has remained a popular favorite and today sells more copies than it ever did.

Why? Because - as evidenced by pointed and frequent references to Rand and Atlas Shrugged in the media -- an increasing number of Americans -- right or wrong -- see their society devolving into a nightmare scenario like the one Rand projected over a half century ago.

Ayn Rand and the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged looks into Rand's background for the ideas and philosophy that inspired and shaped her novel and seeks to determine whether America is indeed headed for the disastrous outcome she predicted.

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  • John L

    You should read Rand. According to her philosophy, rationality and self-interest do not serve to counterbalance each other. Self-interest follows from rationality. Objectivism shows how a rational human being must be a self-interested one..

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  • Krinkle Hill

    Wow, that is a impossible interpretation. This is one philosophy where the rules are so clearly defined it is the one philosophy that clearly defines morality and doing whatever you want is NOT her philosophy at all!!!

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  • puppetsock

    Heh heh. I've never met you, but I'm pretty sure you are plaid.

    Oh, we are not playing "make absurd statements based on nothing?" Well, you started playing it, so I thought that was what we were doing.

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  • Annie Wyers

    In 1895 after Nikola Tesla met with JP Morgan about his new discovery of the "Electric Ray" for Worldwide Wireless Energy, Morgan demolishes Tesla's NY lab then pays Tesla $150K to keep quiet on Morgan's involvement in the fire, not for Morgan's investment into Telsa's Wardenclyffe. Before returning from an unannounced 2:30 am dinner at Del-Monico's, Tesla's 5 Story Lab was burned completely to the ground. Tesla avoids an assassination attempt.

    /watch?v=QgL8jLbPLgM

    /watch?v=FVjLUNlaLM0

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  • Annie Wyers

    The Tesla electric "Back to the Future" car anecdote refers to a supposed Tesla invention described by a Peter Savo (nephew of Tesla), to one Derek Ahers on 9/16/1967. Savo said that Tesla took him to Buffalo, NY in 1931 and showed him a modified Pierce-Arrow car. Tesla had the stock gasoline engine replaced with a brushless AC motor run by a 'cosmic energy receiver" and was driven 50 miles at speeds of up to 88 mph during an 8-day period.

    wikipedia org/wiki/Tesla_electric_car

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  • Jim Bones

    No, that's anarchism.

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  • monjiaitaly

    one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century.

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  • puppetsock

    No, the problem is you are irrational. You have absorbed the notion that morality equals altruism, that things that "help others" are good and things that help oneself are at best neutral. These are massively wrong.

    You also have clearly never read any Rand, just some pundits who told you she was evil.

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  • civildisorder44

    Genius of reason

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  • Avidcomp

    Right. You are agreeing with me. Should you not have posted that to CuriousGeorgeMonkey9 ?

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