It seems strange to me that people should turn to Ayn Rand for hope.
An American bought me Atlas Shrugged as a gift a few years ago. I had never heard of it before that. I started reading it and got bored less than half way in, so I stopped reading it and turned to Wikipedia for the short version. There I learned that the book is just a vehicle for Ayn Rand's "philosophy" which is called Objectivism, which is basically laissez faire economics i.e. ultra-capitalism. I gather Objectivism isn't taken very seriously anywhere outside of the US.
Anyway, as I was saying, it seems strange to me that people should look for hope in that book. Isn't it capitalism that got us into this economic mess in the first place? Is this just a case of the American people "running home to mama"?
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Originally Posted by Stephen Moore
If only 'Atlas' were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.
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/facepalm