Ba-dum-bump!!!

[furrbear]

1000 Blessings to moroccomole for this gem:

Zing of the day:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Comments

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

WIN.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

So utterly true.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

C'est fantastique!

I ran into a few Randroids while I was in college and found them to be the equivalent of Typhoid Mary for ennui.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

Atlas Shrugged is one of those books I wish I could recommend to people. Its treatment of economics and individual liberty is surprisingly good — it’s just everything else about it which is either tendentious, condescending, or downright sociopathic.

Instead, I recommend people read Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics. Same economic and individual liberty lessons, just without the annoyingly bad bits.

AY-MEN! Oh, me! Lawdamercy, chile! So Mote It Be

[ogam.livejournal.com]

TESTIFY, BROTHAH moroccomole!

I say this as a former fundie who had been both Secretary & VP of the College Republicans at my local university who thought Atlas Shrugged was one of the best things ever written—until I went to François Mitterrand's Socialist France to university, had my tonsils removed for a pittance thanks to socialized medicine, discovered public transportation that works, and had a life-changing encounter with Civilization.