The Tender For Law

Volume 4

Nov 17, 2013 6:50 PM

Ceit Butler

Wow...

This is truly appalling to read. In fact, I may NEVER read another article by Salon.com again AND boycott Alternet.org as well.

EVERY single word of this article is a blatant and outright fabrication. The "message" that they are claiming that the book sends, is LITERALLY, the EXACT opposite of what is actually written!

(How do I know this? Because I'm reading "Atlas Shrugged", RIGHT NOW.)

And people will believe this! Alternet has a reputation for being a reputable, cutting-edge news source. The vast majority of readers will see this article and accept every word as truth, without ever taking the time to pick the book up and investigate for themselves.

This is despicable in ways I can't even begin to describe.

I was angry enough, just reading this book. A piece of literary fiction, written more than 50 years ago, that has been heralded as being one of the great books of our time, read the world over! But the further into the book I get, the more disgusted I am by the fact that people praise Ayn Rand as being a visionary, raved about this book...yet here we are, in 2013, LIVING in the world she describes and every one is too blind to see it

Fucking sheep...

I'm too pissed off to say anything more.

How Ayn Rand's Idiotic Worldview Makes the Wealthy Feel Good About Themselves

alternet.org

Sorry, but making a profit off something that's useless to society is not morally superior to helping others.

Read Comments

Scott Duncan

Wait until you run into the first asshat who claims to have read Atlas Shrugged, and then quotes this article.

You'll KNOW they are lying, and they will point to the article.

THAT one is always fun. When you take the time to FORCE the truth down their throat, they still think the lie they told about having actually read it, was ok.

Pete Daoust

Thanks Ceit Butler, I was on my way to make a decision to start reading books, and now that you bring that up, fuck it, I won't read books :P

Read Books = BEING Write books = HAVING

I THINK you should write a book Ceit, and so do I :D

Ceit Butler

...the point was that you SHOULD read books.

Read, think and interpret for yourself, rather than blindly believing such bullshit, hidden-agenda articles that are clearly written by douche-bags with rich benefactors!

Ceit Butler

1084 pages, I'm 501 in :D

And as I said, it's making me angry. This is not a new book. And it's a title that gets tossed around a lot.

Almost any conversation regarding books with an important social message will at some point mention two, if not all three of the following: George Orwell's "1984", Phillip K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth", and Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".

People are fond of discussing these books and the points they make , but how many then take that knowledge and compare it to the world they live in?

It's fashionable to discuss these things in groups, much less so to refrain from settling one's rose-coloured glasses firmly back into place, before facing reality again.

Pete Daoust

I know I am PERFECTLY "in line" about what has been taught in here....

"MAJORITY is always wrong" and who reads books seems to be MAJORITY, and who writes them seems to be MINORITY :P

Shit am I EVER deep on this rainy sunday :D

Ceit Butler

No, the MAJORITY will read articles discussing the books, (such as the one that started this thread), and will accept these opinions as fact.

The MINORITY will actually READ THE BOOKS THEMSELVES, and form their OWN opinions.

Scott Duncan

Nowadays, Atlas Shrugged and similar modern literature is reviewed in the same way Christians "review" their Bible.; They speak as experts and don't ACTUALLY READ THE FUCKING BOOK!

They then lie, when you point out the reality, by saying "you're taking that out of context".

...at this point the discussion is best handled by bitch-slapping the speaker of such bullshit.