Atlas Shrugged: Book that almost perfectly details the decline of America!

[Exterminanegros]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

I recommend that everybody in the forum read this. Though she paid lip service to anti-racism, her philosophy is extremely anti-nigger by its very nature.


As the novel opens, protagonist Dagny Taggart, executive of Taggart Transcontinental, a giant railroad company originally pioneered by her grandfather, attempts to keep the company alive during difficult economic times marked by collectivism and statism. While Dagny runs the company from behind the scenes, her brother, James Taggart, the railroad's President, is peripherally aware of the company's troubles but will not make any difficult choices, preferring to avoid responsibility for any actions while watching his company go under. As this unfolds, Dagny is disappointed to discover that Francisco d'Anconia, a true genius and her only childhood friend, first love, and king of the copper industry, appears to have become a worthless playboy who is destroying his family's monopoly, which has made him into one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.

She meets Hank Rearden, a self-made steel magnate of great integrity, who has recently developed a metal alloy called Rearden metal, now the strongest and most reliable metal in the world. Hank chooses to keep the instructions to its creation a secret, sparking jealousy and uproar among competitors. Hank's career is hindered by his feelings of obligation toward his manipulative wife, mother, and ungrateful younger brother, who show no appreciation for everything he provides for them. Dagny also becomes acquainted with Wesley Mouch, a Washington lobbyist who leads the government's efforts in controlling all commerce and enterprise, intentionally destroying the common man's opportunity to build a largely successful, free market business. The reader also becomes acquainted with Ellis Wyatt, the sole founder and supervisor of the successful enterprise Wyatt Oil. He is a young, self possessed, hard working gentleman - one of the few men still loyal to Dagny and Hank's efforts in pushing for a system of business free of government meddling and control.

While economic conditions worsen and government agencies continue to enforce their control on successful businesses, the naive, yet weary mass of citizens are often heard reciting the new, popular street phrase, "Who is John Galt?" This sarcastic phrase is given in response to what tend to be sincere questions often imploring heavy subjects, wherein the individual can find no answer. It sarcastically means, "Don't ask important questions, because we don't have answers."

[TobyWhipper]

I've always been a fan of Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged is an excellent book. Too bad it's banned in schools these days. It should be mandatory reading.

[BlondNblue]

Scribd brings up quite a bit of Ayn Rand.

http://www.scribd.com/search?cx=007890693382555206581%3A7fgc6et2hmk&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&c=&ft=&q=Atlas+Shrugged%2C+Ayn+Rand&sa=Search#1122


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[CoonTownYT]

It's funny, when the book first came out, it was considered a laughing stock and she was attacked from left and right. The story was considered so absurd that she soon became the butt end of every joke.

Now, ever since the situations have come to pass, people are giving it a second look. All of a sudden, the book is considered prophetic and well-written.

[TobyWhipper]

CTYT, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were laughed at as well for Brave new world, Animal farm and 1984.

They were considered nutters.

[bleach473]

American "schools" ban masterpieces like Atlas Shrugged, because of all of the pure liberal blissful,
rather untruthful ignorant retards who have been destroying America since 1969; they are the
fools that are preventing the truth from being shown to the public, brainwashing pitiful children of today with
complete lies, and even mockeries towards human kind from plagiarized inventions that humans
originally created to the plagiarized series of books Martin Looter Coon shitted out; he took information from
various books written by humans, and claimed it as his own writing shamelessly, and
told many lies beyond belief in his so called "speech", and the events of the destruction
of a once rich, and prosperous country we are witnessing today will cause America to
face a great collapse, one at a greater magnitude than the great collapse of the
Roman Empire that the Romans have experienced over a millennium prior to this upcoming event, it is now
too late to halt the liberals from accomplishing their destructive plot; it is only a matter of
time before it all fades.

[Celtic73]

I am still trying to obtain a copy of this book from a local library. I requested it a number of times via interlibrary loan and it is ALWAYS checked out, including audio copies! I went to the library last Monday and the next copy that is returned will be mine. The librarian told me they cannot keep it on the shelf. I may not wait to get that copy. I'm headed down the road to visit family and there is a Borders, so I may just buy a copy so I can start reading it.

[Whitey Ford]

It's funny, when the book first came out, it was considered a laughing stock and she was attacked from left and right. The story was considered so absurd that she soon became the butt end of every joke.

Now, ever since the situations have come to pass, people are giving it a second look. All of a sudden, the book is considered prophetic and well-written.

The book that always gets overlooked is Anthony Burgess' The Wanting Seed. Known better for his book A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed was his best work. Set in futuristic London, Beatrice is a white woman in a society that promotes miscegenation, diversity, homosexuality and socialism. Being gay or a minority is considered fashionable, while she is considered second class for being white. The government promotes homosexuality as a means of population control with the motto "It's Sapiens to be Homo" and dead people are ground up into fertilizer. People are encouraged not to reproduce and couples can get cash payments from the government if their kid suffers a premature death. Burgess wanted to expand this book into a series of novels but was encouraged not to because it was considered too offensive. You can preview the first 40 pages on Google books. Huxley, Orwell (aka Eric Blair) and Rand are overrated, Burgess is underrated.
:stick

[haywood]

Viddy well, little brother, viddy well! I'm getting ready to drive to the Korova milk bar so that I can peet some of the old cold moloko and perform the old in out on a weepy young devotchka!thumbsup

[skillet]

"Atlas Shrugged"....should be required reading......

[PG Tips]

I've got it here, as a PDF created directly from a text file -- meaning it looks like typewritten text.
Shall I upload it as is, or pass it through a word processor to make the page layout a bit better?

[Justin Igger]

Rands destroyed town where the Twentieth Century Motor Company once was is a prophetic look into modern day detroit.

[Arnold_Swatanigger]

I'm reading 'Atlas Shrugged' now. I'm liking it, but the railroad board meeting is making me want to choke them all to death :lol

[Benjamin Ryan Tillman]

"Atlas" is a good one. I have not read her other novels. Some folks prefer "Anthem" and "The Fountainhead".

I've read "Philosophy: Who Needs It", "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal", and one other one I can't remember. Some of the essays, op-eds, speeches, etc., contained within her non-literary works border on the brilliant. Greenspan was a buddy of hers, and his philosophy regarding free markets, the federal reserve, and capitalism jived with Rand's. Too bad he went off the deep end as chairman of the Fed.

The basis of her philosophy is sound and goes back to the days of Locke, Paine, and others of that era who valued freedom.

[assbeef]

I've got it here, as a PDF created directly from a text file -- meaning it looks like typewritten text.
Shall I upload it as is, or pass it through a word processor to make the page layout a bit better?

yes please.
i would very much like it.

[Exterminanegros]

yes please.
i would very much like it.

This would be good for the Chimpout file archive.

[Whitey Ford]

CTYT, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were laughed at as well for Brave new world, Animal farm and 1984.

They were considered nutters.

Aldous Huxley's older brother Julian worked for UNESCO, Brave New World was a dark parody of the bizarre brand of socialism known as "Fabianist Collectivism" as dreamed of by the U.N. Julian Huxley was a supporter of the Collectivist ideology and taught his brother Aldous about it thus leading to the book. Basically, Julian Huxley was a socialist wanker and Brave New World was Aldous' satire of a futuristic world that would result if the U.N. achieved it's long term goals and turned the world into a Fabianist douchefest.

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521093514

[Whitey Ford]

This would be good for the Chimpout file archive.

You can download a copy of Atlas Shrugged here:
http://www.callendamornen.co.uk/eBooks/AtlasShrugged.pdf

Brave New World complete Ebook in PDF format:
http://www.aprendendoingles.com.br/ebooks/BraveNewWorld.pdf

And just so you all know, you can find just about any book in existence (if it's on the web anyway) by going here:
http://pdf-search-engine.com/

(the world's best pdf finding search engine evah!)

[Arnold_Swatanigger]

GAH.. who wants to read an 891-page PDF file?

*raises hand*:D
:picsmile

[cruddycat]

I agree with many of the previous posts. I love Rand's literary style and have read all of her books 4 or 5 times. Everyone should read Atlas Shrugged because of its relevance to the problems in our society. She did not claim to be a prophet but she showed the consequences of irrational ideas and philosophies, the importance of integrity and the need for consistency, rational thinking

Her books are long but are interesting enough to go fast.

When I went to college I met a number of Objectivists and others who agreed with Rand. I did not meet any niggers who agreed with her. The few who heard of her were violently opposed to her "because she be racist." reasons for their dislike: she was against welfare, she promoted the use of reason and she believed that people should be responsible for their actions. Obviously that still does not sit well with niggers and other knee jerk liberals who promote an irrational, offensive and morally incorrect agenda.

Who is John Galt?:al

[nutnice]

Ayn Rand thought "racism" against niggers was bad because it
was a form of "collectivism" (see her essay collection "The Virtue of
Selfishness). I was into her stuff when I was in college, but once I
got out into the real world, well...

[Exterminanegros]

Ayn Rand thought "racism" against niggers was bad because it
was a form of "collectivism" (see her essay collection "The Virtue of
Selfishness). I was into her stuff when I was in college, but once I
got out into the real world, well...

Nobody has a perfect philosophy, but her anti-racism essay is a stark contrast to what she wrote in "The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". There she outlines and denounces just about every form of TNB known to man. Who knows what her motive was for her pushing anti-racism in a couple of her writings, but it is the most glaring inconsistency that exists in her belief system. Her only saving grace on the issue is this quote where she practically admits that there are races that are mostly moronic, "A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race—and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.".

To take every word of an individual's writing as the absolute truth, whether the Bible or Ayn Rand, would be not dangerous and destructive, but would go against her very philosophy of using one's reason itself.

Yeah, the Randbots on college campuses don't do her any justice.

Anyhow, Atlas Shrugged, IMO, is a great read for these times.

[Whitey Ford]

Ayn Rand thought "racism" against niggers was bad because it
was a form of "collectivism" (see her essay collection "The Virtue of
Selfishness). I was into her stuff when I was in college, but once I
got out into the real world, well...

Collectivists use the niggers as a tool to demoralize and injure the human masses so they can subjugate and dominate them. A populace plagued by crime,a draining welfare state and a destroyed gene pool are easier to rule. Fucked up bastards those collectivists. :rsp At least Russia was just subjected to communism, others have to be subjected to niggers. :vomit

[Exterminanegros]

I am bumping this to catch newcomers. Keep in mind that I do concur with Nutnice about his warning of any application of her complete philosophy as a religion. However, if you read her works, the description of the "looters" covers over 90% of all niggers.

If you take the general message from her fictional works you will be reinvigorated toward sticking up for the true conservative causes and calling out the bullshit of the RINOs like Lindsay Graham and John McCain. Ron Paul for me was like a John Galt trying to warn everybody during the 2008 elections. The vast majority of his warnings have come true and are coming true.

Chimpers. It isn't about Democrat or Republican. It is about your rights as an individual versus group rights. For any fellow Mexican Americans reading this, please consider this angle. Many of you have conservative values but are still following some group labels. La Raza and LULAC are just going to sell your individual rights up the river and make things as bad as the conditions that exist in Mexico for the same reason. If you don't have property rights and a government that is more restricted than the people, you are just a pawn or a drone amidst the chattel.

[BlondNblue]

Ayn Rand your asses off.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_new

[Out of Detroit]

That book, I'm told, details how the powers that be are going to take America down.

A must-read.

[niggerloverNOT]

The book that always gets overlooked is Anthony Burgess' The Wanting Seed. Known better for his book A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed was his best work. Set in futuristic London, Beatrice is a white woman in a society that promotes miscegenation, diversity, homosexuality and socialism. Being gay or a minority is considered fashionable, while she is considered second class for being white. The government promotes homosexuality as a means of population control with the motto "It's Sapiens to be Homo" and dead people are ground up into fertilizer. People are encouraged not to reproduce and couples can get cash payments from the government if their kid suffers a premature death. Burgess wanted to expand this book into a series of novels but was encouraged not to because it was considered too offensive. You can preview the first 40 pages on Google books. Huxley, Orwell (aka Eric Blair) and Rand are overrated, Burgess is underrated.
:stick Rand and Orwell overrated?!:wtf

[Odin88]

This was required reading for budding skinheads back in "the day". None of us were stupid illiterates- have to keep up with the current philosphies. Excellent contribution by the way- I thought I was one of the few book worms here..... Excellent.

[Reformed]

Ayn Rand is a long winded bore. A supreme hack, and her central philosophical premise runs contrary to what makes humans human and niggers just a pack of worthless stinking sociopaths.

Cooperation, thats what its all about. Loyalty, family ties, ties to a community greater than your own impulsive ass. Bettering others for the bettering of culture and then you. The humans have this but all niggers have is looting, raping, killing, and conning to get an edge so they can get just a little bit more than the other person has.

Objectivism is a nigger philosophy.

[Maleficarum]

I tried to read Atlas Shrugged but found it boring and gave up in less than 100 pages! The UK has an awful history of unionism and the storyline irritated me intensely. Utter rubbish in my opinion.

[maximilian]

ayn rand is only popular among idiots who never studied real economics .

[Whitey Ford]

Toss that shit in the trash and read a real book of Economics :coffee
http://books.google.com/books?id=5tO7upIK2pIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=friedrich+list&source=bl&ots=UhgAiudAmE&sig=DuJrDfoeLr42M5oLK_7oWbmk7Ok&hl=en&ei=BiT7TNPtLY7ksQOLkbT2DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Exterminanegros]

ayn rand is only popular among idiots who never studied real economics .

You obviously have never read Atlas Shrugged because it was never intended to be a thesis on economics.

The focus on the book was more on individual rights and one's right to private property regardless of what any economic theory may state.


Toss that shit in the trash and read a real book of Economics :coffee
http://books.google.com/books?id=5tO7upIK2pIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=friedrich+list&source=bl&ots=UhgAiudAmE&sig=DuJrDfoeLr42M5oLK_7oWbmk7Ok&hl=en&ei=BiT7TNPtLY7ksQOLkbT2DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Again, Atlas Shrugged is more political and deals with individual property rights. Common Sense by Thomas Paine wasn't a real book on economics, but that doesn't make it trash, does it?

Now here is a book on economics: http://mises.org/rothbard/mes.asp

Notice the difference! I recommended Atlas Shrugged as a philosophical/political novel. The link I just pasted is a good book on economics that you can download for free.

Again:
http://mises.org/images3/MES-PM.gif

http://mises.org/rothbard/mes.asp

[Whitey Ford]

You obviously have never read Atlas Shrugged because it was never intended to be a thesis on economics.


Atlas Shrugged isn't really a book on economic so much as a bad novel, true. I have an audio book of it on my iPod but it bores the hell out of me. Might just be that I hate audiobooks and prefer to read (I hated the audiobook of Brave New World, but loved the written version).
Technically there are 3 predominate theories of Economics:
1. Keynesian: A crackpot racket invented by James Maynard Keynes. It's the main system of Economics in practice today in the US & Britain which is why their both so fucked up.
2. The Austrian School: Infinitely better than than that Keynesian shit, but that's not saying much. It does have it's good ideas, like actually keeping some sort of reserve to back your currency. I actually like guys like Rothbard and Paul but I don't consider them to be Austrian School purists. Where the Austrian School train goes off the tracks is in it's relentless harping on "free markets". There never was a true "free market" and never will be. Even Paul admits that the current meltdown occurred because politicians struck down certain regulatory measures that allowed the financiers to run amuck. Regulations? That's a "regulated market", not a "free market". Von Mises and Von Hayek were also part of that whole Mont Pelerin thing with various Keynesian whackjobs as well, but that's a whole different story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Pelerin_Society
3. The Nationalist System: Friedrich List's system stresses regulated markets . Import tariffs to keep cheap imported crap from putting indigenous industry out of business are an important cornerstone of this system. Regulatory measures to keep the financiers from strangling industry and wrecking economies. Looks like most Libertarians are more Nationalist System than Austrian School after all. thumbsup
http://www.economictheories.org/2008/12/friedrich-list-national-system.html

[Exterminanegros]

As the moochers and the HNIC continue to accelerate America's slide, I will bump this thread.