Comments on A Craig Walker's Blog: Atlas Shrugged

Ugh. I had been thinking about reading this but I ...

2010-02-10T13:26:33.370-08:00

Ugh. I had been thinking about reading this but I think I might wait a few more years.

I find that with age and maturity comes increased ...

2010-02-08T09:23:46.147-08:00

I find that with age and maturity comes increased self confidence, and perhaps comfort and satisfaction in one's philosophy of life and value system. I don't feel threatened by alternative viewpoints to the degree I once did, and can appreciate and understand them without needing to embrace them.

Here is the "oath" that the protagonists take when "going on strike":
"I swear--by my life and my love of it--that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

I don't know. It just doesn't leave the right taste in my mouth at all.

Atlas is not the second most read book. It was ju...

2010-02-08T08:19:22.722-08:00

Atlas is not the second most read book. It was judged to be the second most influential book.

It's always a puzzle to me when intelligent people don't like Atlas, although I understand that when they are older, they have so much invested in contrary ideas that they just can't re-boot.

Try The Fountainhead. It's much easier reading and was a bestseller too.

Thanks for reading it. Now I don't have to. ;...

2010-02-07T09:32:57.158-08:00

Thanks for reading it. Now I don't have to. ;-)