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Atlas Shrugged
I recommend reading Ayn Rand and George Orwell as a start. I know Rand gets a lot of vehement criticism but that should tell you something. Even if you don't take the time to read all of her books, as they are quite long, at least familiarize yourself with her ideas.
http://aynrand.org
I was having a conversation over dinner a few weeks ago with an intelligent women in her late 30's. She went to Wesleyan which is a highly regarded university. As our conversation progressed, I realized that she did understand the references that I was making. I queried her about Rand and Orwell only to discover that she has not read a single word of either author. I was truly shocked. No 1984 or Animal Farm! My god!
How do you graduate from AP high school and a top university without having read Orwell?
I'd reconsider Rand. She has been Co-Op'ed from the neoliberals...
Here are some disqualifiers for Rand:
She adored William Hickman, a psychotic killer who kidnapped a 12 year old girl, hacked her to pieces, wired her eyes open and meet with her father for a ransom trade. Hickman, took the money, then her father, who thought she was alive found her dismembered body. Rand thought Hickman was wonderful because he shunned society and made his own rules.
Alan Greenspan, the glorious Economist and Fed chairman, was a disciple and cult follower of Rand. His mea culpa Congressional testimony is really a testimony of Rand's Objectivism...
In Rand's cult, dissent was not allowed.
The movie Atlas Shrugged was a flop. So are her books, considered 2nd or 3rd rate novels.
She is really just a angry Russian Jew who got a raw deal during the Russian Revolution..... Ayn Rand isn't her real name.
She took a lover outside of her marriage and considered it just.
She rejected God. An atheist. Which is fine, but most conservatives who love her junk writings, believe in God.
A hypocrite, Rand took social security in her old age under another name.
The reason why so many people like Rand is because she gives them a false sense of identity... most of the people who adore Rand aren't the producers or innovator she writes about, rather they are the moochers or parasites. It is all really childish and unrealistic... yet attractive. Most people would not know how to go Galt if they really wanted too.....