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I think Francisco D'Aconia is absolutely a dream gunkhole. This volume'due south similar apathetic blah blah engineering, blah blah blah John Galt, apathetic blah blah no donating deed, blah bla- HE-llo, Francisco D'Aconia, y'all gro
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Original review:
I call up Francisco D'Aconia is absolutely a dream boat. This volume's like blah blah blah engineering, blah blah blah John Galt, blah blah apathetic no altruistic act, blah bla- HE-llo, Francisco D'Aconia, y'all growl and a one-half. Also, at that place's a pirate. So, what'due south everyone complaining near?
Okay, information technology's not that I don't go what everyone's complaining about. I get that Rand is kind of loony tunes of the Glenn Brook diverseness, and some people (possibly?) use her to justify being assholes, merely I just don't like to throw the bathwater out with that baby. Alert: I think, to make my betoken, I have to refer to Dostoyevsky a lot, which I seem to e'er do because he really is some kind of touchstone to me. The indicate I'm trying to make with all this blabbering is that the debate over Atlas Shrugged brings out something that I might detest more than anything else (more than than weddings and kitty litter even). Information technology makes people say that ideas are dangerous. People on all sides of the spectrum do this virtually dissimilar stuff, and whatever the statement, I don't similar it. If an idea is wrong, say it'due south wrong. Merely genocide doesn't happen considering people put forward too many ideas. It happens because people put forward as well few ideas.
Anyway, back to the book:
Commencement, story. The third function of this book is super weird. Information technology'south definitely not the actual catastrophe of the book, I've decided, but more of a cull-your-own-risk proposition. It'southward kind of fun that way because any end that you, the reader, come with will be better than the ane Rand suggested. My favorite part of her ending is how John Galt gives the almost dull speech possible, and information technology lasts for about a bazillion pages, and you take to skip it or die. Then, at the end, Rand's like, "The entire globe was listening, ears glued to the radios, because Galt's spoken language was the virtually bright thing they had ever heard." No. Nope. Dainty attempt, liar. And then, that'southward super lame, I agree, and you should just skip the third part.
But people don't get as mad about the epilogue in Criminal offence and Penalty. Why? That'southward the same situation, where it kills all fun, and y'all have to ignore that it happened. Is it simply because information technology's shorter, and it's chosen "Epilogue"? Maybe that'southward enough. But, on the other hand, maybe people didn't read all the way to the cease of Law-breaking and Punishment. Maybe, because information technology was written by a crazy Russian human being, not a crazy Russian woman, people call up they'll sound deep if they say they like it.
2nd, writing. People complain near Rand's writing, and I always think, "When was the last time you wrote a 1000 page volume in a second language and pulled off a reasonably folio-turning storyline?" The adult female spoke Russian for crying out loud! Information technology most certainly would have been a meliorate choice for her to have written the books in Russian and had them translated, only, I mean, well-nigh native English speakers couldn't exist that entertaining. Information technology'south at least A for endeavor. I'g not going to make excuses for the unpronounceable names she chooses for her characters, only I'll but say Dostoyevsky again and leave it at that.
I know it fabricated a huge departure in my reading of this book that I was living in a Soviet bloc apartment in Lozovaya, Ukraine at the time and had forgotten a picayune bit how to speak English. I'1000 sure a lot of weird phrasing didn't sound weird to me because it makes sense in Russian. Just, also, I feel like I've read a lot of translations of Dostoyevsky and other Russians that feel actually weird in English language. You lot know, everyone's always having some kind of epileptic fit or whatever with Mr. D. But, we allow for the weirdness because nosotros picture the stuff happening in Russia, where the weird stuff typically goes down anyway. I'll tell you correct at present, Atlas Shrugged takes place in Russian federation. No joke. She might tell y'all they're flying over the Rocky Mountains, or whatsoever, but this book is a Russian if in that location ever was one. Just and so it's clear, I LOVE that about it. That'south no insult, only compliment.
Third, philosophy. Perhaps I told you this story already, so skip it if you already know information technology. When I lived in Ukraine, I had the same conversation with three or four people of the older generation who grew up in the Soviet Union. They would tell me, "Things were actually wonderful in the Soviet Matrimony, much better than they are at present. Nosotros had complimentary health intendance, free housing, and at present we accept zero. I hateful, every in one case in a while your neighbor would disappear, but it was completely worth it." This was really disturbing to me, because it gave me this picture show of the people effectually me – that they were the ones who ratted out the neighbors who wanted a different life. Sure, Rand'south vision is narrow and sometimes inhuman, but I recall it is because she was actually terrified of this equally narrow and, as far every bit I'm concerned, inhuman vision. I want a public health intendance selection existent bad, and my neighbor has some actually abrasive Chihuahuas, but if forced to choose between them, I'd probably yet pick my neighbor.
Admittedly, the problem with this argument is that information technology sets up a dichotomy where our only choices are the prosperity gospel and Soilent Green. From what I know of Rand, though, she had seen her neighbors and family thrown out of Russia or killed for being rich. She was fighting something extreme past being extreme. Unfortunately, in America, this rhetoric turns into the idea that having public services = killing your neighbour. To me, this comes from people taking her arguments also seriously on both sides. Dostoyevsky has ghosts and devils coming out of every corner, and people have his stories for what they're worth. We don't think that liking his books makes united states of america mystics and hating them makes the states inquisitors. Why is it different with Rand?
Quaternary, women. I'chiliad not going to lie and tell you lot that in that location weren't other badass female person characters when Dagney Taggert came around. All I want to say about this is that the most valuable thing I got from this book was the idea that one person existence unhappy doesn't, and shouldn't, make other people happy. I think, in this fashion, it was specially of import to me that the protagonist was a woman. I see a lot of women complain about their lives and families, but say it's all worth it because they've been able to devote their lives to making their husbands or children happy. I'm paraphrasing, I gauge. Anyhow, that kind of hegemony actually creeps me out.
When I read this book, I was just realizing that I had joined Peace Corps with a similarly misguided motivation. I wanted to go to the needy and unfortunate countries of the world and sacrifice myself to salvage them. It might audio more than nasty than it really was when I say information technology like that, but I think information technology is a really arrogant attitude to have. Nosotros might accept hot running water in America (for which I am forever grateful), but if somewhere doesn't have that, it's probably not considering of a problem a silly, 23-year-sometime English major is going to solve. Don't become me wrong, I loved Peace Corps, and information technology was maybe the best experience of my life so far. But I love it for the things that I got out of it, and if someone else benefited from my beingness in Ukraine, it was dumb luck.
I don't know about other women, merely I was raised to believe that the more selfless (read: unhappy) I was, the better off everyone else would exist. I retrieve it's a pretty typical mode that women talk themselves into staying in abusive situations – that their lives are worth less than the lives around them. This would be the Hank Rearden character in the novel. I honey that Rand sets upwards characters who destroy this wheel of abuse. I love that her female protagonist lives completely outside of it.
So, not to undercut my noble feminist apologetics, merely really Francisco'due south just hawt, and I remember that'south the reason I similar this book. There are lots of other reasons to read Rand, but most of those get into the argument near her ideas being dangerous. I just don't call back they are, or should be. I call up ignorance is dangerous, simply I think it should be pretty easy to make full in the gaping holes in Rand's logic. Yep, she conveniently ignores the very old, very young, and disabled to brand a specific and farthermost point. I don't retrieve her point is entirely without merit, though (in the sense that our lives are valuable, not in the sense of "impale the weak!"). I also think that if we requite a "danger" label to every book that conveniently ignores meaning portions of the population to make a betoken, we wouldn't exist left with much.
Anyway, read, discuss, agree, disagree. I'll be making upwardly some "Team John," "Squad Hank," "Team Francisco" t-shirts later. I hear in the sequel in that location are werewolves.
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged
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