Oh man, I thought at first that each chapter was being summed up in a short pithy jab, then I realized that each one of those was actually a hyperlink to a full article on the passage. Night mode making hyperlinks hard to see again.
Edit: read through chapter 2, and it's pretty good. A bit lib with the Gates praise at one point and some defence of intellectual property law as "promoting innovation", but at least it takes a big old dump on Rand.
Also, my god. Ayn. Who do you think the trains exist for? Who do you think the steel is poured for? Do you think these industrialists do it because it's fun? You stupid motherfucker.
Depending on the chapter summary it can get very lib, ie "communism doesn't work because x" bad, very New Deal fetishism type liberalism
I just remember it quite fondly because me binging it was a pretty significant marker in my political development ~2014-15, it was quite refreshing to revisit Atlas Shrugged with a much more critical eye when I had read it in earnest as a teenage libertarian in 2007. Literally the only way anyone can think it's a good novel - not even in an ideological sense, but a literary one - is to go into it with a preconceived bias in mind.
Oh man, I thought at first that each chapter was being summed up in a short pithy jab, then I realized that each one of those was actually a hyperlink to a full article on the passage. Night mode making hyperlinks hard to see again.
Edit: read through chapter 2, and it's pretty good. A bit lib with the Gates praise at one point and some defence of intellectual property law as "promoting innovation", but at least it takes a big old dump on Rand.
Also, my god. Ayn. Who do you think the trains exist for? Who do you think the steel is poured for? Do you think these industrialists do it because it's fun? You stupid motherfucker.
Depending on the chapter summary it can get very lib, ie "communism doesn't work because x" bad, very New Deal fetishism type liberalism
I just remember it quite fondly because me binging it was a pretty significant marker in my political development ~2014-15, it was quite refreshing to revisit Atlas Shrugged with a much more critical eye when I had read it in earnest as a teenage libertarian in 2007. Literally the only way anyone can think it's a good novel - not even in an ideological sense, but a literary one - is to go into it with a preconceived bias in mind.