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Atlas shrugged author6/6/2023 ![]() Set in America in a non-descript time – they had telephones and TV, but limited air travel and still some steam trains – the characters in the book we follow, are ‘get-up and go’ type people. Taken to its extreme it can have devastating effects, as Atlas Shrugged showed. ![]() It was Original sin, which according to the Christian Church, we are all born with. Actually, it was when I was nearly at the end of the novel that she mentioned what the book was really about. My take on what happened in the book was more about the discouragement of people with ideas and incentive, and an encouragement of mediocrity and laziness. But on reading the book I am not so sure that Ayn Rand was against communism. Well that is what I remember hearing when it was first released. There were a lot of similarities in the book to the times we were currently going through.įirst published in 1957, Ayn Rand was noted for her intolerance for communism. The lady who wrote the article was right. ![]() ![]() When a few weeks ago, while reading an article in the Business Section of the newspaper where the writer said we were living in similar times to Atlas Shrugged, I remembered I had the book, in a box set of Ayn Rand’s novels, so decided to read it.Īs it turned out it was the perfect book to read during isolation because of the COVID pandemic. ![]() So long ago that I had forgotten what the story was about. It is many years since I have read this book. ![]()
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