Relevant comment from John Carmack a couple weeks ago:<p>Atlas Shrugged popped up in a trend, reminding me of the remarkable level of vitriol against it. It is obviously grinding an anti-collectivist axe, and it can fairly be called cartoonish, but if you can't see its archetypes in the world around you, you aren't paying attention.<p>I can easily understand people not liking the book, but the level of <i>loathing</i> that some show for it is odd, as if someone could go off on a rant and redline judge everyone who enjoyed the movie Wall Street as obviously terrible people.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1478389565094256642" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1478389565094256642</a>
Funny, but Rand would review some of them differently<p>[Babe / Charlotte’s Web]<p>Ingenious farmers find new ways to market their farms and products with innovative marketing.<p>[Snow White]<p>Seven dwarves give room and board in exchange for house keeping. They save her from a dangerous, overreaching government. It later translates into future potential political favors.<p>[Beauty and the Beast]<p>A woman rightfully chooses a man with more resources.<p>[Up]<p>Politically persecuted man overcomes adversity and claims a flying fortress of intelligent dogs.<p>[The Muppets Take Manhattan]<p>A capitalist Cinderella story with puppets minus the fairy tale magic.
I big miss at a humour in my view.<p>Although, in general Im puzzled by the cliche portrayal of A.R.'s views as somewhat cold or inhumane. Though I did not read all her essays and works, Im familiar with the several ones which warrant no such trivialized characterization. On the contrary, she explicitly and implicitly said that "...reason and emotions are not contradictory or in opposition. It is only when we do not understand our emotions that such dichotomy appears". Any thinking individual can sign his name under this. And, that is why we have psychiatry industry, billion dollar self-help book industry, etc. On the other hand we have also recreational drugs and alcohol abuse, etc -- which is the point in case, when emotions take over faculty of reason to govern our decisions/life that ... destruction, destruction, destruction...