Monty by Jim Meddick for September 15, 2022

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    Ratkin Premium Member about 2 years ago

    A Random act of kindness.

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    pschearer Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Ha-ha, very funny. /s/

    My advice: Don’t believe anything anyone (yes, including me) tells you about Ayn Rand and Objectivism unless you have read her and can judge for yourself.

    There’s no right answer as to where to begin reading. For me it was “Atlas Shrugged”, but other people start with “The Fountainhead” or “Anthem” or her several collections of essays. But read her yourself. It’s the best advice I can give anyone.

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Some young distant cousins of mine, born to wealth and privilege, were Ayn Rand fans. I shrugged.

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    lavender headgear  about 2 years ago

    He leafed through the book and couldn’t find the chapter on conquering fentanyl addiction.

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    socalvillaguy Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Totally agree with this poor soul. Read Ayn Rand, her books are long-winded and boring. Unfortunately, it’s not going to bring him much.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    He’s a fast learner.

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    e.groves  about 2 years ago

    I read that book some fifty years ago.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 2 years ago

    In the real world corporations get subsidies from the govt. Oil companies come to mind as they are on the edge of bankruptcy. /S

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    F-Flash  about 2 years ago

    See, he’s already weaving straw into gold.

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    rossevrymn  about 2 years ago

    So, I read “Atlas Shrugged” in the best place to read a tome like this, one of my military tours. You often git a whole lotta down time, when you’re deployed. By my second tour I brought with me every book I ever had on my good intentions list and got through every one, the Bible, the Koran, “The Dancing Wu Li Masters.” Though, philosophically I think A.S. is childish, there have been a few moments the last few years where the general covid-caused decline in some key services (red lights not working, massive flight delays) where I hearken back to moments in A.S. where society is collapsing.

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    GaryCooper  about 2 years ago

    It should say, “Boring, badly written book by a sociopath— 50 cents.”

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    the lost wizard  about 2 years ago

    Having never read any books by this author, I am not going to comment. Whoops.! :)

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    ChukLitl Premium Member about 2 years ago

    While there are lands to conquer, expendable slave labor can build wonders. Looting helps you pay enough soldiers for when the peasants come with torches & pitchforks.

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    hornacek  about 2 years ago

    And that homeless man eventually read Atlas Shrugged, changed his life, got a job, and went on to co-create Spider-Man.

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    Need coffee  about 2 years ago

    Re-reading Rand in today’s context focuses attention on the problems with government corruption, perhaps even as much communism/socialism. The governments Rand was thinly disguising were communist, but they were also massively, massively corrupt.

    Corruption is not a socialist problem exclusively. Significant elements of Rand’s world are developing here and now because of crony capitalists and people who take payoffs from foreign governments or foreign government affiliates for favors or access to our political system.

    (Which party you affiliate with will reveal who you think I mean in the last part of that sentence. Neither party seems to be able to admit any possibility of corruption by THEIR guy/gal.)

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    ron  about 2 years ago

    What many Rand fans miss is that John Galt is the face you see in the mirror.

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    Impkins  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Oh, look! A bookstore. I thought they were extinct. :)

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    Pedmar Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I’d rather read Terry Pratchett.

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    dogday Premium Member about 2 years ago

    My brother gave me eight books for my 15th birthday: 4 Ayn Rand and 4 Ian Fleming. Atlas Shrugged gave me nightmares but the one thing I learned was to divorce myself from culture-think. SO glad!

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 2 years ago

    “I’m sorry, sir, you may have misheard me. What I lack is money, not sleep.”

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    Ukko wilko  about 2 years ago

    Pearls before swine.

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    WCraft Premium Member about 2 years ago

    No need for anybody to read Atlas Shrugged (or watch the movie) because it is happening now

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    Sisyphos  about 2 years ago

    Atlas Shrugged is certainly very long! Though tempted from time to time, I have never even tried to read it. (I did get through The Fountainhead, though….)

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    GreggW Premium Member about 2 years ago

    John Galt can GFH.

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