If you aren't I recomend Atlas Shrugged for reading, if you've got a few years to spare that is.
It's an intriguing view of our political system, it may change a few, more Liberal minds.
2007-12-11 05:50:54 · 4 answers · asked by Elutherian 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
well then, perhaps you should read deeper.
2007-12-11 05:56:55 · update #1
El diablo:
Then why is it that Ayn Rands future America looks almost identical to our own. We live in a neo-communist society, everything belongs to everybody... just at government descretion. In this sense what we have is more corrupt than Communist Russia itself.
2007-12-11 09:45:38 · update #2
Yaakov:
I agree with you wholehearedly, read above statement.
2007-12-11 09:46:45 · update #3
If you read _Atlas Shrugged_ and didn't understand that Rand was equating U.S. liberals (that includes both of the Republocrat parties) with Soviet communists, then you weren't paying attention. -yk
2007-12-11 06:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by Yaakov 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Been involved in Atlas Shrugged for a couple of years now. It has none nothing to change my liberal mind however.
Sorry John Galt you and I will always disagree on this. I have to agree with Yaakov.
2007-12-11 05:55:45 · answer #2 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When your coming out of a dirt-poor, communist Russian upbringing, any hint of liberalism will scare the be-jesus out of you.
It hasn't changed my liberal mind either, cause I'm not calling for a communist state in America.
...there's a huge difference between "US Liberal" and "Communist Russia". If you didn't keep that in mind while reading it, YOU need to read deeper
2007-12-11 06:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by C'est Pas Vrai! 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
She has many good ideas, but her fictional characters are so extreme and biased as to be caricatures. I think "Atlas Shrugged" ultimately weakens her arguments by her overuse of exaggeration and her binary reasoning.
I still love the book though. :-)
2007-12-11 06:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋