Robert Tracinski
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“Clearly, Ayn Rand cared only about the captains of industry and hated the common man. Sorry to put that point sarcastically, but that seems to be the only way to express how much Atlas Shrugged has been distorted and caricatured by those who find that it challenges their preconceptions—and who cannot rise to the challenge. If you cannot question the idea of an antagonism between the great industrialist and the common man, and you find that Ayn Rand obviously admires the industrialist, you will assume that she despises the common man, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary.”
― So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
― So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
“much of Atlas Shrugged is a tribute to the American common man.”
― So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
― So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
“We understand this well in every other book, movie, or television show—perhaps a little too well. Today’s filmmakers blow up entire populated planets just to raise the stakes for the hero’s climactic fight scene (something done in both the Star Wars and Star Trek science fiction franchises). In “Game of Thrones,” murder and torture are doled out with such abandon, over so many seasons, that they cease to be mere plot devices and become a central theme of the series. But heaven forbid Ayn Rand should write a scene where people suffocate to death to demonstrate the disastrous consequences of Big Government. As with most literary complaints against her, this one is applied selectively, only to the author with an unwelcome political and philosophical message.”
― So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
― So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
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