Thing is Atlas Shrugged is such a piece of garbage I'm unsure even the most clever 11-minute takedown can do it justice
EDIT: And yes, it's a very good "in a nutshell" takedown of the book. But it's still really important to comprehend and understand some of the deepest hatreds at the base of Rand's ideology, those being: that all who do the slightest degree of Wrongthink deserve death (the Midnight Train to Death); that all the ultimate villains are secretly motivated by death drive to bring down the "productive people" (embodied by James Taggart and his fate); and that all non-Ubermenschen don't deserve salvation no matter how loyal or hardworking they might be (embodied by Eddie Willers and his fate, and how Dagny's character arc is quite literally to view common people as objects rather than human beings); all with the specific excerpts from the text and excerpts from Ayn Rand's own (hilarious) life.
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Thing is Atlas Shrugged is such a piece of garbage I'm unsure even the most clever 11-minute takedown can do it justice
EDIT: And yes, it's a very good "in a nutshell" takedown of the book. But it's still really important to comprehend and understand some of the deepest hatreds at the base of Rand's ideology, those being: that all who do the slightest degree of Wrongthink deserve death (the Midnight Train to Death); that all the ultimate villains are secretly motivated by death drive to bring down the "productive people" (embodied by James Taggart and his fate); and that all non-Ubermenschen don't deserve salvation no matter how loyal or hardworking they might be (embodied by Eddie Willers and his fate, and how Dagny's character arc is quite literally to view common people as objects rather than human beings); all with the specific excerpts from the text and excerpts from Ayn Rand's own (hilarious) life.