Posted on 04/19/2011 6:27:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Rand wrote the novel, in part, as a reaction to FDR's New Deal. Her villains are his bureaucrats.
I first read the novel in the 1990's and I thought, "Her villains are Clinton's bureaucrats."
Anyone reading the novel or seing the film today will surely think, "Her villains are Obama's bureaucrats."
Same old same old. Until the revolution.
Went on Friday, Packed house in Boston (of all places!)...
Her villains look much like the various government officials and associates of the largely forgotten early part of the Great Depression. Most people remember such things as Social Security and the huge construction projects of the Hoover Dam and the TVA, but if you look back to when the National Recovery Administration enforcement officers were raiding businesses to see if they were charging a nickel more than allowed.
I think they missed an opportunity by glossing over the Reardon Aniversary Party. Including the philosopher's and author's statements would have significantly identified the problems with the society.
Representative Jackson's tirade this week about the iPad is a joke that just writes itself!
I think the villians on par with the bureaucrats in the novel were the corporations that attached themselves to these bureaucrats.
Rand clearly had a prophetic gift. Too bad for her that she has no idea where that gifting came from — but she was gifted nonetheless. BTW, there was applause in our theatre in NC too. About half full, Saturday afternoon, right before we had all those tornado’s.
The problem in tying Mouch to Jesse Jackson is that no one - not even my liberal neighbors - take Jesse Jackson seriously. He is a characterure, plain and simple.
The other problem is that when you worry too much about government intervention, it will happen. If you keep going out and making new things, you can keep ahead of them. Think google, think facebook, think twitter. Trying to control it? walk away from it and build something else. The problem is the characters in Atlas shrugged gave up. They were the weak ones.
I’ll wait for the DVD release, which shouldn’t take long.
Wasn't this the party in which Francisco gives his "Money is the Root of All Evil" speech? If so, that would be a shame to not include some reference to that speech!
for those of us that have read the book, we will certainly find flaws in the movie (I thought there were many instances of ‘spoon-feeding’)... however i am hopeful that many people will see the film and then be inclined to read the book, or if the don’t read the book, they may finally ‘get it’...
There were guys from the freestate project handing out flyers too with the saying “WHERE is John Galt?”...
Homework Assignment: Read Ayn Rand’s “Return of the Primitive”.
With the Wisconsin thuggery fresh in mind, this collection of her writing’s will simply make you say “Wow!” out-loud.
I haven’t seen the movie yet. Do you think people that haven’t read the book will “get it”?
Francisco’s “Money” speech is at another party, in part 2 of the book. I was expecting it in the movie too, but when I went back to the book, I realized it is in part 2.
The strikers in the book didn’t give up. Did you ever read the book?
I’ve been thinking of creating a new game: “Randian Villain or Democrat?”
I read atlas shrugs, and was worried that it may come to pass....i recently read a paper by the Mackinaw Institute about the myths of the great depression. I was shocked to learn that most of the book DID come to pass under hoover and roosevelt......that paper was a real eye opener to me, and it debunked most of what I was taught about the depression, it’s causes and effects...totally shocking
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