Elegant Distractions

Over at the Corner, Ramesh Ponnuru misses the point of Atlas Shrugged sales completely.

People find the book compelling not because they believe it will save them from economic turmoil. There is, in point of fact, nothing in the book to even suggest such an outcome.

The book tells the tale of the downward spiral of an economy in the hands of people like our current Congress and Administration and how quickly things can unravel. It talks about how once things reach the tipping point the only viable action for liberty-minded people is to withdraw their productive talents from the world.

That is no recipe for personal prosperity but it might be for destruction of the Marxist philosophies and a return to first principles.

Hey, Ramesh, read the book, ok?

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With those words begins a journey into the mind and beliefs of Ayn Rand.

I've been a fan of most of Rand's philosophies for more than twenty years. So often over the past years I've longed to have any number of quotes from the book at my fingertips. Thanks to the modern world of blogs I can create that for myself.

What you will find under this category are excerpts from the book and perhaps some commentary on how this fifty-year-old book relates to our modern political world. These posts will show up as I'm reading and when I find passages that strikes me in some way.

I will be quoting from hardbound version of the book shown in the link below. Page references are from that volume.

Let's begin.

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