Last summer I read "The Fountainhead" and "We the Living" by Ayn Rand. I have started reading "Atlas Shrugged" this summer but due to classes, work, and general time wasting I'm not as far along as I would have been if I had read at the pace I read last summer. Oh well. In regards to the "Who is John Galt?" question, Ayn Rand may or may not have finally given us a little crumb of information. Was he really a rich man who found the city of Atlantis, the city of heroes? I don't know yet. Please if you've read the book, don't spoil it for me. Don't tell me what happens, I like to find things out for myself because that's the fun of it. The unanswerable question. I love it!
Unfortunately I don't have the time to write a dissertation on my opinions on Objectivism. I might do that later.
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So from what I can remember about Atlas Shrugged is that an underwater objectivist utopia doesn't work that well thanks to man's greed and quest for power. It mostly got worse when plasmids and Little Sister killings, then the Big Daddies got involved with it all. By the end of it the whole city was a disfigured shadow of it's former self.
ReplyDeleteOr I got it confused with Bioshock again.
Well I'm almost done with the first part. Already 2 hints have been dropped about who John Galt is. One says that he was a very rich man who found the city of Atlantis. According to this story Atlantis is where those favored by the gods, heros of men, would go and spend their days. And since John Galt was able to find it, that's where he ended up.
ReplyDeleteThe second tidbit had something to do with a mountain.
I'm up to the part where Dagney and Hank have found a motor that takes the static electricity from the air and turns it into its own power source. It only needs minimum amounts of fuel to run. They are now trying to find who made that motor so that they can rebuild it and use it on the Taggart trains.
Ok well I'll come back to this later when you are done reading it because if I talk about Bioshock it will ruin Atlas Shrugged.
ReplyDeleteNow would you kindly finish reading the amazing book? <3
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Bioshock, Wade Willson.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on it. :)
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