When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I read "Atlas Shrugged" decades ago. I need to get a copy and read it again.
We’re living it. El Salvador or Argentina will be Galts gulch.
"FranCISco"... The part of the Elf movie that makes me think of Ayn Rand🐸
The plan WAS Chile, but that’s probably off the table at this point.
Didn’t help that the dudes facilitating that movement were scamming the pants off people.
https://www.place4free.com/Downloads/Books/Interesting/Atlas%20Shrugged.pdf
enjoy ....
(currently, all versions of Atlas Shrugged have been removed or lock up on archive.org.)
Use real paper books and save your eyes from the blue light and radiation from your device.
CTRL + P => Bind in leather.
That just reminded me how long the book is LOL. Super thick and very small print for the paperback. We'll over 1,000 pages.
Thanks skipper! 👏
Who is John Galt?
I don't know,but I have a niece named Dagne.
u/#kek
It was a favorite book of my father and family....
Found Ayn Rand through some bumper sticker. Many college age friends in the town had seen the sticker & we ended up reading some books.
Best local enlightenment trick in the early 2000s near me. Made it easier to find others who would question things. Should have found out who owned the cars & met up. Maybe they are on this board.
Yes i had a locker at work with John Galt on it years ago,no one ever caught the reference.
Yes, everyone in my family read it too, all 6 of us
No wonder you turned out so well!
Kek.
bah - beat me to it by 17 minutes... silly
Kek.
I saw a sticker on a couple cars around the county I lived in decades ago that simply said, "Who is John Galt?"
It got dozens of us to read this books when we were college aged guys. I am so grateful for those bumper stickers & the journey it started many of us on.
I read it through the Obama years.
Every night my husband came home I would say you are not going to believe this.
It was exactly what was occurring during those eight awful years.
Now I wish I had read it again during that time. That would have been crazy. It did prepare me for the Obama years though.
It was if Obama was acting it out.
Right on target.
yes! I remember reading this in HS, and it made So much sense. little did I know it was a predictor of what was to come...crazy times for sure.
and does anyone know how to pronounce her name...what does her first name rhyme with?
Rhymes with line, shine, mine, etc. Simple search of "How to pronounce Ayn Rand's name" - I checked five or six of them.
thanks for doing the work for me! this isn't the first time I've forgotten over the years, so I thought asking might solidify it for me🥸
I keep forgetting, too, so was happy to look it up for both of us (and whoever else was curious).
Sign the line with Ayn Rand, to avoid some mines & shine!
You wordsmith!
LoL Just dumb songs my father always sang while traveling ended up sticking. Always had some weird thing he would sing, terribly, about & rhyme to make us all wonder what was really going on up there. Now I do it for my kids & they tell me I should sing real songs because they sounds better and make more sense LoL
You are giving them the gift of a wonderful memory! Keep it up Bobbin! 👏
She left Hungary. Eastern Europeans are very well aware of communism and how it grows like a fungus.
Actually she was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905 and escaped to the U.S. in 1926, age 21. She lived through the Russian Revolution and the beginnings of the Soviet regime. Her novel We the Living is based on what she went through in those years. She changed her name from Alissa Rosenbaum to Ayn Rand when she became naturalized in the U.S.
Thank you! I had forgotten this
You bet, fren!
I was going to mention We the Living! That was eye-opening. I still think about that book, years later. Powerful
Agreed! More personal and emotional than her later novels.
yes again^ I met a man originally from Yugoslavia at the Milwaukee rally. such a sweet guy, said he was there because he had first hand experience with communism, didn't want it happening in America.
That Chinese lady who debated Jack Sullivans Wife was amazing. General Flynn in 2021 said legal immigrants may have to save this nation, because they know exactly why they came here.
Also a lot of them still know how to run businesses.
Imagine having that book assigned as reading material in schools now . . . Ha Ha
I bought it and a Barnes and Noble many years ago and the clerk looked at me and said...
What the hell?
FU Commie! LOL
Decades ago, my therapist recommended I read The Fountainhead. She was the coolest.
That was a good one as well.
It was. Eventually I read everything of hers. Good stuff. :-)
A Classic!
Really?
I better go back and get a couple more to pass out to others...
It just made me want to read it more!
How dare she!
It was a he commie. Leftie orcs have been around a long time. 😂
I hope you said who cares what you think!
I dont remember exactly what I said. It was quite some time ago. I do remember thinking it isn't the place for employees to tell customers what books to buy when the books are in their store.
But as we all know, that's exactly what democrats do. They want to tell everyone else what to do all the time.
Not gonna work with me!
u/#victory
FIERCE! 💪⚔️
Rhymes with "shine."
I have read "Atlas Shrugged" twice, several years apart, and will read it again before I'm dead.
But when you see a country (it's people) United by a strong leader rise up against it, there is hope!
“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government.” ~ Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter
“Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the “rights” of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights.” ~ Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter Collectivized Rights
“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.” ~ Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter “The Fascist New Frontier,” The Ayn Rand Column, p.98
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” ~ Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” ~ Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter
“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: "Account Overdrawn.” ~ Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter Atlas Shrugged, p. 385-386, (1957).
The last two quotes are right where we are. Being looted.
Ayn told us. She knew.
Her name was ALISA ROSENBAUM.
So?
George Orwell's real name was Eric Blair.
Pen names don't make this any less true.
Ah right, that is why you missed her criticism of her tribe members ..... you know, the money masters .... the commies .....the socialists ...
If her race is of import to you in relation to what she is saying, then Max Stirner may be your ticket. Especially his book: The Unique and his property. (although in English it is shit to read as it usually falls back to latin words that have different connotations; i.e.: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum: literally: the ONE and his Self-dom)
Interestingly, he used to be in a debate group together with Engels and Marx, and his views, even more radical (rooted) are 180% opposite to two jokers.
Really lame dude ...
Clearly you haven't read any of her books. Every patriot should.
The fact that the woman was born into a Jewish family under communism and Bolshevik rule before coming to the United States to warn others of those perils, using her God given talents and risking her own safety- is a testament to her character.
If anything, her writing could be considered anti-zionist...
Today is a good day to admit you were wrong and start reading one of her books. Anthem is a quick read.
And shortly before Election Day, a two-month-old account's mask comes off.
Fair enough.