AS should be required reading in high school

Best wishes

The psychopathic tumors need to be extirpated from the body politic. I wish there were a psychopathy test for public office.

female?

that is opening a door to any liberal LOL

I can define a woman: an adult female member of the human species. Why should that have been so hard?

Thank you. Something to add to my to-be-read list.

I think they've been running it for a long time.

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

The troubling part -- those who choose to avoid reality leave the bills for the consequences to others.
There is a nearly complete lack of accountability.
This has gone on for so long, that the reality avoiders find that they have a limitless supply of blank checks.
The flood of disasters that they have created needs to enter their front doors and physically make them aware of their failures.
The more troubling part -- these people are sociopaths -- they neither own nor learn from their mistakes.

I know that we like to say NIFO (Nuke It From Orbit) -- and Drain the Swamp -- but I think that in order to see real change, for the better, individual cancer tumors need to be identified and deleted.

ditto

Yep, these days not only can you not fix stupid, you can only watch it devolve.

HAD to +1 that term2. Same here.

Indeed, dino! Every time I think the imbeciles can't possibly get more idiotic they set a whole new level of moron.

Agreed. I read AS in the mid '70s and immediately followed it with almost anything Ayn Rand. I've re-read AS a few times since so it's about time I revisited her other works as well.

Why not Shrug and let it sink into the swamp it has devolved into?

when everyone is truly equal...
When do the Asylum Inmates get their turn to run the government?

Asking for a Moron who believes "Communism has never been done PROPERLY..."

Those clueless are my idea of a tsunami. The powers behind it are definitely full of purpose, vile purpose.

I would not say it is so blind, as purposeful for the benefit and control of select few, while the majority are the tsunami of the clueless.

That growing flood is now a tsunami of blind self destruction. The world will drown in mindlessness. Find your own high ground and fight for it with your life.

If you watch some of her interviews (Mike Wallace, Tom Snyder et. el.) you see some of the first blatant and public form of cancel culture.
Yet Ayn saw right through their games and refused to be cowered.
Instead, she made them try and defend their indefensible positions.
The visceral reaction of the later (1980's) audiences made it clear has day, cognitive dissonance had become the order of the day.
Her work of fiction was becoming reality before her eyes.

As a high school teacher I observe this daily.

I read Atlas Shrugged in college, and was convinced in the power of rationality ever since. That was nearly 60 years ago. One of the biggest things I was attracted to is that Objectivism WORKS in the real world. I cant spout all the tenets of Objectivism very well, but the pragmatic nature of it is undeniable !! Check out Biden for proof of that !!!

I am so happy that I worked hard when I was young so that I don't really need to interact with irrationality so much now that I am 78. I don't have to beg for a job, I don't have to worry so much about inflation, I can live pretty much under the radar of irrationality. If I had not worked so hard, I might have to worry about all those things..

The idea of a society is that if people can respect each other and each work to make things better, ALL BOATS RISE.

In today's society, I have my doubts that there is a lot to be gained by interacting with other people who act irrationally.

Ayn Rand had at least one thing really right. The only way people can get along is if they each respect the human nature of others, and the way that is shown in economic terms is CAPITALISM