Good Goddess, How Does Ayn Rand's Legacy Continue to Live On?

[LAGC]

ATLAS SHRUGGED, the movie, debuts April 15 (imagine that).

Teabaggers are going to go nuts, I mean absolutely ape-shit, flooding the theaters to see the work of an ATHEIST who gives all atheists a bad name.

I mean, her entire premise is just ridiculous. Does she (and her followers) really think that if the capitalists all just up and went on strike, the working class couldn't manage by themselves just fine? It would be an interesting experiment to try... see who is more necessary to get work done. Get all the CEOs and management of Fortune 500 companies to just call in sick for an indefinite period of time and go on strike, and see what happens.

If they tried to close down the businesses and factories, workers could squat and occupy them. Keep things running. The workers themselves could elect their own leadership to manage the books and handle payroll, with emergency government loans if needs be. We could see how fast those fat cats' salaries and bonuses could be put to good use, as the companies' profits are distributed more equitably.

They're afraid of too much socialism? I say let them bring it and see how fast their nightmare comes true, and how unnecessary the capitalists really are.

[walldude]

1. LMAO.. the IMDB rating is.... -10!

I don't think I've ever seen a "negative" number in an IMDB rating before..

Yeah I'm sure they'll make millions.. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[underpants]

20. NOONAN!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001574/

Michael O'Keefe ... Hugh Akston
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

[sasha031]

2. Rec

[Liberal Veteran]

3. You mean "Atlas Shrugged: The Trilogy"?

As if that drivel couldn't be pared down into a preview?

[WCGreen]

6. You mean those structured settlement commercials where all the people

scream out of the windows it's my money and I want it now...

[wtmusic]

4. I wouldn't mind the premise if she had been a decent writer.

She was a hack, who told capitalists what they wanted to hear.

I could never make it past the first 100 pages.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Next up: Atlas Shrugged, Return of the Jedi

In which John Galt's father is really FDR.

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Don't be absurd.

John Galt's father is Jar-Jar Binks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. One of my favorite cartoons -- says it all:

[CrawlingChaos]

14. HA! Love that - THANKS!

[Demoiselle]

9. Actually, The Fountainhead is a great movie.....

for watching while you're sitting around drinking with your friends, that is. Your own personal Mystery Science Theater opportunity for smartass remarks. Quite possibly the silliest movie ever made.

[Prophet 451]

10. Someone forgot to put a stake in her heart

I will never understand how the evil bitch's training manual for sociopaths became anything more than a weird footnote in the history of philosophy.

[The_Commonist]

11. Nah... the teabaggers won't be flooding the theaters.

C'mon, that book is a frikkin' thousand pages long.
Those morons don't read!
Objectivism?
You think teabaggers know or care anything about some book-learning philosophy?

I might go see it, however.
It'd be a great stoner activity with a bunch of friends.
There might be some Libertarians in the audience, but no teabaggers.

As for the rest of the premise of the OP - I don't think we should wait for the capitalist CEO master-of-the-world class to walk away from us. I think we should walk away first...

[OHdem10]

12. It is too bad the Libertarians and Businesses (Capitalists)

today share none of the high expectations and discipline
--never mind the morality. Enron, Lucent, reemember all
those leaders of companies being convicted and sent to jail.
I am not a fan of Ayn Rand and Objectivism but show me
person who has the character that Rands paints in her
heros. Speaking of this--the recent fall on Wall Street
certainly showed no ethics or morals.

[SoCalDem]

13. Selfish people love to look for and find validation in her words...n/t

[stuntcat]

15. +1

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[Stargleamer]

16. That hypocrite took Medicare herself. . .

after calling others leeches: <http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_against_government_benefits,_but_grabbed_social_security_and_medicare_when_she_needed_them/>

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. Because of her groupie, Alan Greenspan.

Who is married to Andrea Mitchell of NBC news.

[walldude]

21. The chapter on Greenspan in Matt Taibbi's new book Griftopia

is called "The Biggest Asshole In The Universe" :rofl: :rofl:

[underpants]

18. She was a bitter middle class wannabe elite who didn't understand that no one wants to be a janitor

the whole thing is a clear light into the fantasy that the upper level of management lives in these days.

[Boojatta]

23. "who didn't understand that no one wants to be a janitor"

Are you talking about Ayn Rand, or are you talking about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck?

[reformist2]

19. Actually, be glad that the heart of GOP philosophy is an open book.

It makes it that much easier to assail.

[joshcryer]

22. Atlas Shrugged made me a libertarian socialist.

I read Atlas Shrugged and when I was done was so completely mindfucked that I looked for the exact opposite of her theory. I found the Anarchist FAQ and then read many texts, from What is Property?, God and the State, Anarchism and Other Essays, to Post-Scarcity Anarchism and In Defense of Anarchism.

Atlas Shrugged still took longer to read. :puke:

But I can say it did help shape my belief systems by turning me against everything capitalism and everything "market and contract" oriented.

[cognoscere]

24. It lives on because approximately one third of the population is

functionally insane; functionally stupid; or were kidnapped by gypsies when they were infants and had their brains replaced with dog shit.

[blindpig]

25. As long as the rich finance this propaganda.

It's a long sordid story:

http://socialistindependent.org/anax01.htm