21 Jun 2022 4:48 pm
Xavier_Onassis » 21 Jun 2022, 4:11 pm » wrote: ↑ Ayn Rand was capable of writing well, but very, very lazy at editing and perfecting her work. That is why Atlas Shrugged was over 1200 pages and there is no conclusion to the depression everyone is mired in. Ayn Rand's only really worthwhile book is We the Living. I think she spent more time editing it.
All through the first half of Atlas Shrugged we are told to wonder who was John Galt. But when we finally meet the dude, he is a long winded guy who refuses to shut up. I think Rand originally patterned the John Galt character after Nicola Tesla, who was quite weird and a total failure as a capitalist.
For years and years, Rand refused to allow Atlas Shrugged to be edited for a film. When they eventually made THREE films of it, each was worst than the last. We were asked to believe that the entire fate of the United States depended on one railroad hauling oil out of Colorado.
There is that Atlas statue in front of Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. They seem to like her there even though the "Atlas" bears a resemblance to Mussolini.
Nothing is easier than defending the status quo.