John Stossel Fox Business 01-07-10 Atlas Shrugged 6 of 6

John Stossel on Fox Business Channel. Thurs, Jan 7, 2010. Atlas Shrugged Special.

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[griff500grr]

Thanks for putting this up, Mr Penguin. If you're interested in Rand, capitalism and freedom, I highly recommend a book called The Neo-Tech Discovery. It was based on the principles of Rand, and while their marketing was a little nuts, and they seemed to go off the rails in the end, this book turned me from a layabout loser into a productive businessman, improved my life and relationships immeasurably. Most importantly, it enabled me to spot financial / emotional leeches a mile off.

[PenguinProseMedia]

Thanks griff500grr, I'll have to check it out. Reading 'Atlas Shrugged' changed my life, and wish I"d read it when I was in HS or earlier.

'Atlas Shrugged', has been so successful in my opinion, because its ultimately a very positive book. It's a celebration of the unlimited potential of the human mind, a recognition of the achievment that anyone can accomplish if we free men to pursue their god-given talents and abilities.

[GuitarMatician]

I watched the whole thing. Thanks for posting this. We don't get the Fox business channel with my cable company.

[PenguinProseMedia]

GuitarMatician, packrat76 -- My pleasure and thanks for watching. Please spread the word about shows like this that put the protectionist, statist, anti-market, anti-reason, anti-growth, wealth-spreading looters in their place!

[JBeatty17]

John Stossel- One of the few bright spots of Fox News.

[mrrobotica]

@thirteendays13 ramv36 made no comment on the quality of Atlas Shrugged. Why are you responding to him like he did? The only conclusion he made based on the fact that he posted was that it's sales were "not bad for a 52 year old book". Is this conclusion what you are calling a fallacy of logic? If so, why did you follow it up with a completely unrelated argument?

[mrrobotica]

@thirteendays13 Let me guess, you didn't even read the book?

[marce11o]

People resist Rand's message because they actually don't want to be free. They want to be taken care of. Freedom scares people. To live up to one's own standards is too daunting a task, so they give up.

[thirteendays13]

This series was excessively lame, they had almost no opposing view points what so ever. They never even mentioned that Dagny was a murderer, and that there was a pirate who stole from the poor to give to the rich, the book is whacked. 

[thirteendays13]

@ramv36 That is of course, a fallacy of logic. Just because something is more popular than something else, that doesn't mean it is actually better. I am pretty sure Harry Potter is outselling Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, and Catch-22, but you would have to be insane to think Harry Potter is better or even equal to any one of those books. Popularity doesn't mean a damn thing.

[JackyB92]

Really need to read Atlas Shrugged at some point, thanks for posting this.

[griff500grr]

@ramv36 As I said, they did go off the rails in the end. Your guess is as good as mine. The original book featured none of this nonsense, just 114 concepts that had a subtle but profound positive influence on me.

[Judy101101]

@Judy101101 can't be a good parent. because they are way to busy being oprah's slave and they love their slave master because of money

[Judy101101]

@Judy101101 the spike in sales means the more people suffer the more they will want to turn into their enemy. if you can't beat them join them. So if everything wrong 'works" and we all want lives to work then you'll want to learn how to do everything wrong so you can be successful as your enemy. just look at Oprah - slavery history, don't like being a slave be the slave master - she makes her employees work day and night while saying parenting is important - the parents working for her

[Judy101101]

to teach selfishness is a good thing is to teach people how to be a psychopathic mass killer no wonder Angelina Jolie loves the book she does appear to have psychopathic traits - anyone working for the UN is a psychopath right now. it takes a different mind set to see how much harm Angelina does towards kids and families while fooling herself into believing she's a hero - it's just selfishness on the poor - this sounds like one insane book