tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969250579019866145.post4276968754512177321..comments2023-10-02T10:54:37.108-04:00Comments on GraceLifer: We Saw Atlas ShruggedRichard Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291975813992121842noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969250579019866145.post-6678925612496707642011-04-30T06:41:17.810-04:002011-04-30T06:41:17.810-04:00I read "The Fountainhead" many years ago...I read "The Fountainhead" many years ago and it seems to contain much the same theme. As a young man it provided a great deal of fodder for thought.Hal and Kathy Bekemeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054973407357144808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969250579019866145.post-39059404575745102952011-04-23T08:44:47.089-04:002011-04-23T08:44:47.089-04:00The following is an interesting letter from Ludwig...The following is an interesting letter from Ludwig von Mises to Ayn Rand dated January 23, 1956 (shortly after the publication of Atlas Shrugged).<br />Dear Mrs. Rand:<br /> <br /> I am not a professional critic and I feel no call to judge the merits of a novel. So I do not want to detain you with the information that I enjoyed very much reading Atlas Shrugged and that I am full of admiration for your masterful construction of the plot.<br /> But Atlas Shrugged is not merely a novel. It is also (or may I say: first of all) a cogent analysis of the evils that plague our society, a substantiated rejection of the ideology of our self-styled "intellectuals" and a pitiless unmasking of the insincerity of the policies adopted by governments and political parties. It is a devastating exposure of the "moral cannibals," the "gigolos of science" and of the "academic prattle" of the makers of the "anti-industrial revolution." You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you.<br /> If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it still is the truth that had to be said in this age of the Welfare State.<br /> I warmly congratulate you and I looking forward with great expectations to your future work.<br /> <br />Sincerely,<br />Ludwig von Mises<br /> <br /> <br />http://www.isil.org/ayn-rand/von-mises-letter.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18253124557275792455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969250579019866145.post-50385518265157378202011-04-22T11:17:20.465-04:002011-04-22T11:17:20.465-04:00RE: Your comment: >>And because man is basic...RE: Your comment: >>And because man is basically good, they insist, there is no need to leash him; there is nothing to fear in setting free a rational animal. Thus is the ideal of the author of Atlas Shrugged. It is an ideal doomed to fail. <<<br /><br />So *exactly* what is your view of the human rational animal? That he is a "corrupt" -- basically "bad" -- creature and freedom is NOT his natural state? Are you saying we should be "afraid" if people have freedom?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686843900621811445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969250579019866145.post-25973830493074191622011-04-22T06:01:56.779-04:002011-04-22T06:01:56.779-04:00My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Opening weekend:
Date ...My Big Fat Greek Wedding<br />Opening weekend:<br />Date Rank Sites Average Gross<br />2002 Apr 19 20 108 $5,531 $597,362<br /> <br />USA<br />Theatrical gross: $241,437,427 <br /> <br />Worldwide<br />Theatrical gross: $356,500,000<br /> <br />Atlas Shrugged: Part 1<br />Opening Weekend<br /> <br />Date Rank Sites Average Gross<br />2011 Apr 15 14 299 $5,639 $1,686,347<br /> <br />Lesson: they are right to panic.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18253124557275792455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969250579019866145.post-53079726279592920412011-04-22T05:39:35.009-04:002011-04-22T05:39:35.009-04:00http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/008536.h...http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/008536.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18253124557275792455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969250579019866145.post-29736089942953125282011-04-20T15:25:48.445-04:002011-04-20T15:25:48.445-04:00I was completely stunned after reading this book m...I was completely stunned after reading this book my first year after HS graduation and my first job. It was so opposite my Lutheran upbringing of "be good" because we were to always serve others. I wasn't good, of course, although I tried, so life produced much guilt. To think we should live for self was revolutionary thought. When I found Christ and began learning "accepted in the Beloved", "complete in Christ", "liberty"...I replaced the gospel of self with the Gospel of Christ, who is the Truth, and the true Love, to me and to the world.<br /><br />I last saw Ayn Rand on the Phil Donahue show. Phil asked her directly about Jesus Christ, and she answered that to have God sacrifice His Son was repugnant to her thinking. She, with all her intelligence, missed the foolishness of the cross. I thought how sad and how she missed the primal actions of God's love. She stumbled at the cross.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00746581854640598211noreply@blogger.com