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-Why it is weird Isnt college supposed to give you credentials? Not in Atlas Shrugged! Apparently because of those professors previously mentioned, the word college becomes synonymous with retard looter. Even characters that are hinted to have gone through college are rarely described as having done so. Why not? -Why it makes sense In addition to the aforesaid dislike of college proffessors, the main group of people who believed in things like internationalism, socialism, and the like were often college students. Thus Rand saw college students as stupid, but little did she know
People who want to manipulate government policies to their own short term benefit rather than the economy as a whole
People who want to manipulate government policies to their own short term benefit rather than the economy as a whole
Pretentious College Graduates who Think they Understand Economics People who actually understand economics
Pretentious College Graduates who Think they Understand Economics People who actually understand economics
Yup, Today college students make up a large part of the libertarian party, as do self righteous millionaires who want low tax rates and none of those pesky labor laws that require that you feed your workers, just as in the 1950s college students adopted socialism as part of their pacifist anti-segregation hippiedom, as did self-righteous low income workers who wanted government handouts. But in a way Rand turned out to be correctnot graduating from college can make you a millionaire.
3. Zombies
-One of the Many Quotes (around 15): Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience- And The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above them, but receives the bonus of all their brains. -Why it is weird, but makes sense. Actually it makes a lot of sense, portraying the bad guys as lifeless voodoo spell controlled corpses, but the reliance on the mystic voodoo description ends up making the bad guys sound like a lot of awesome, powerful wizards at times, even when it is effective at others. Anyway, what could be more appropriate for a novel about the individual against the collective? What makes more sense than a monster that literally wants brains? Too bad they didnt use sexy vampires
-Why it makes sense The books title is Atlas Shrugged. Now do you get it? Yeah? Atlas holds the world on his-? Anyway, it is still awkward when the Rand treats the shoulder of all things as the center of sexual beauty/masculinity and weirder when it causes orgasms in some steamier scenes. I am not joking about that last part.
They only serve as more proof that she was ahead of her time!
I am bothered by the fact that the S&M is explained through ideological rants. Of all the things you had to explain through objectivism, why kinky sex and housewives service in the kitchen?
In conclusion Atlas Shrugged is an awesome book that becomes awkward sometimes because of Rands insistence of her philosophy in every aspect of the book. Thanks for reading.