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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:44 AM Original message |
'Atlas Shrugged 2' |
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ContraBass Black (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Atlas Shrugged depends on a fundamental misunderstanding |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Isn't that where we are now? |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. Ayn Rand who wrote "Atlas Shrugged" could not actualize... |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. But look at it on the surface , as all of us did in the 70's and 80's |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 01:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
25. If by fulcrum of "conservative beliefs" you mean absence of |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:06 AM Response to Original message |
5. Just the opposite |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:12 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Very cool and realisic 'toon... you KNOW |
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m berst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. dust off the blueprints... |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. "it has all been done before" |
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toymachines (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:41 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. goddam right, and well said |
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m berst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 05:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. hi tm |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 06:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The moors kept the enlightenment alive |
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m berst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 06:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. three separate stories, no? |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:41 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Indeed "n" |
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m berst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
38. really a fourth topic now |
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the other rick (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 08:42 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. OT a little |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 05:01 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. what do you mean "we" white man? |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 05:02 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. First time I ever saw that 'toon. |
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the other rick (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 08:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. I love this!! |
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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:08 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Randroid...LOL. That's what my brother is. :) Now I know! Thanks! nt |
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PittLib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-01-04 01:25 AM Response to Reply #27 |
39. mine, too... and he doesn't otherwise read fiction. eeek. nt |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 05:11 AM Response to Original message |
12. Let's shrug Ayn Rand |
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azoth (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. I'm reading this and all I can think is |
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FDRrocks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 05:15 AM Response to Original message |
13. A culture of selfishness would never work. |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 06:22 AM Response to Original message |
16. Its nice fiction that |
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ContraBass Black (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 07:51 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. I read The Fountain Head first |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. She was a child of privilege, a fool, a creep and a user |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:44 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Why experience the world when you can just read a book |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:44 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Elegant means simple; she's anything but that. |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 06:26 AM Response to Original message |
17. I think we would just produce new corporatists |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
21. Why even bother attacking Atlas Shrugged... |
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Don Claybrook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 09:01 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Ouch! Danielle Steele? |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 02:03 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Well, to be honest. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
31. Ayn Rand wrote |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Lets just all become objectivist scientologists |
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Jose Diablo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
33. As for our 'elite' corporatist |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
34. John Galt was not a "corporatist". |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Now Ayn Rand is a marxist? |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-30-04 04:13 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Of course not. She valued work and creativity. |
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