Yes. This is far and 0away the most important speech in the book, especially when you consider that Ayn Rand witnessed this exact thing growing up in Russia. This despicable horror is the foundation for all the other speeches... without understanding the enemy, the rest seems out of context.
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"Now I know they didn’t do it by any kind of mistake. Mistakes of this size are never made innocently. If men fall for some vicious piece of insanity, when they have no way to make it work and no possible reason to explain their choice - it’s because they have a reason that they do not wish to tell."
scary, scary, scary stuff. the direction we're heading is ultimately going to lead us to this scenario, just on a country-wide or global scale, unless we do something about it. but what can you do when your leaders are shoving bill after socialist bill down your throat??
this is from atlas shrugged, then? i really need to read that book.
Yes. You absolutely should. Especially in these times. Rand knew. She lived the evil from the inside. She told us where we were going.
I will warn you it's about 1/3 too long and too often slow and redundant, but it is well worth the read for the parts worth absorbing. This speech and Fransisco's money speech are brilliant in their insight.
Then I recommend moving on to Fountainhead, the better book in my opinion. The antagonist is the most evil I've read in fiction, and so very much fits the Obamunists and the rest of the rabid socialist elites. He's seemingly completely harmless, and yet so thoroughly evil and damaging.
"Don’t set out to raze all shrines-you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed."
The modern Democrat Party. Teacher's unions, academia, all other unions, Hollywood, the press, their politicians, all of them. It should be their official slogan.
The mistake so many conservatives and other non-Liberals make, I think, is to recognize that not thinking of them is to hand his kind victory. As we've seen.
Your use of my posting the 20th Century Motor Company story
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December 25 2009, 17:43:42 UTC
Melvin -
Thanks so much for using my transcription of Rand's story in the exact fashion I hoped people would!
I, too, believe this is the most important speech in Atlas. I believe so because this speech strikes at the root of the problem; Moochers and Looters believe they have a claim on my life by virtue of their existence and not by any mutually beneficial interaction with my existence except as a financier.
We have a hard road ahead of us now. Moochers and Looters are sailing the ship and have no clue they are in mine and iceberg infested waters. We cannot assist their efforts and be true to our nature and yet they will scream for us to save them once the ship begins taking on water. The depth of their ignorance and self deception is revealed in the fact they believe their ship is impervious to the realities of sailing in such seas.
It's good to know there are others out there - those such as you and your readers - who also share an allegiance to Truth. We will need all the companions possible in the days ahead.
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"Now I know they didn’t do it by any kind of mistake. Mistakes of this size are never made innocently. If men fall for some vicious piece of insanity, when they have no way to make it work and no possible reason to explain their choice - it’s because they have a reason that they do not wish to tell."
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... she'd lived in the Soviet Union. In its early years, when a lot of the people still believed in the dream.
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this is from atlas shrugged, then? i really need to read that book.
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I will warn you it's about 1/3 too long and too often slow and redundant, but it is well worth the read for the parts worth absorbing. This speech and Fransisco's money speech are brilliant in their insight.
Then I recommend moving on to Fountainhead, the better book in my opinion. The antagonist is the most evil I've read in fiction, and so very much fits the Obamunists and the rest of the rabid socialist elites. He's seemingly completely harmless, and yet so thoroughly evil and damaging.
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Howard Roark: But I don't think of you.
(love that. love it love it love it)
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Yep. That guy was truly evil and sick.
"Don’t set out to raze all shrines-you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed."
The modern Democrat Party. Teacher's unions, academia, all other unions, Hollywood, the press, their politicians, all of them. It should be their official slogan.
The mistake so many conservatives and other non-Liberals make, I think, is to recognize that not thinking of them is to hand his kind victory. As we've seen.
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Because she knew.
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Thanks so much for using my transcription of Rand's story in the exact fashion I hoped people would!
I, too, believe this is the most important speech in Atlas. I believe so because this speech strikes at the root of the problem; Moochers and Looters believe they have a claim on my life by virtue of their existence and not by any mutually beneficial interaction with my existence except as a financier.
We have a hard road ahead of us now. Moochers and Looters are sailing the ship and have no clue they are in mine and iceberg infested waters. We cannot assist their efforts and be true to our nature and yet they will scream for us to save them once the ship begins taking on water. The depth of their ignorance and self deception is revealed in the fact they believe their ship is impervious to the realities of sailing in such seas.
It's good to know there are others out there - those such as you and your readers - who also share an allegiance to Truth. We will need all the companions possible in the days ahead.
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You should give a look at writerspleasure. I think you will find a truly kindred spirit.
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