Bernie Brocialist. I was surprised to find out that they are actually almost as hated by the “woke” as we are.

True, Albertans are certainly independent thinkers, for the most part.
What with the oil and cattle industries, I think of it as Canada's Texas. :-)

Unfortunately, Canada has the same problem as the US. Coastal elite provinces who have enough voters to rule over the rest of the country.

My family are all in Ontario, and although they don't like Trudeau, there aren't any conservatives. Not that it matters, the Conservatives in Ontario are a disaster too.
They usually vote Green.

That’s why I said this is hilarious and put it in the humor section. His conclusions are laughable. But that’s the reality of how SOME view Ayn’s work.
I was at first tempted to say he didn’t read the book. But he seems to have read it but with a very biased viewpoint. Honestly his descriptions of the romance between Dagny and Hank seem a little rapey. Which says more about him than anything else.

Hehe. It's not too hard to read this and laugh. Describing Rand as "crazy, narcissistic, and on a mountain of amphetamines" is an interesting way to start a book critique, because there's no backup for this anywhere in the rest of the piece. The author is trying to prejudice the ignorant reader rather than present the piece and draw sustainable conclusions.

Further, he tries to label Objectivism as a cult of personality but its pretty clear that the author never bothered to actually read any of Rand's scholarly work or listen to any of her interviews because I'm pretty sure she told the interviewer - if not in words than certainly in sentiment - that she disdains toadies and sycophants, i.e. looters, as she would smallpox.

The author even tries to make comparisons of himself to Alex Jones in claiming a Randian fixation with Star Trek. This one is pretty hilarious because the most famous "mating ritual" of Klingons it that the males recite poetry while the females hurl heavy objects at the male petitioner. No mention that Klingons mated exclusively and for life... It's clear that this guy doesn't even know his basic sci-fi!

He goes on after that, however, to attempt guilt by association by saying Orange Man Bad and then asserting "some" Trump fans are also Objectivists. It's sad and laughable - just like those who tried to say that Trump supporters were the KKK totally ignoring that the KKK was started and funded entirely by DEMOCRATS.

He then goes on to supposedly show his intellectual prowess in noting that Atlas held up the sky, but utterly fails to comprehend that the reason the sky had to be held up (in Greek Mythology) was so the world wasn't crushed by it! The author pwns himself here!

The author then attempts to superimpose Jim Taggart's "uncaring" attitudes as merely Rand's portrayal instead of reality. I mean, seriously. Did this guy even try? He's outing himself right here as a communist sympathizer!

In a rather ham-handed attempt to criticize the length of AS, he mistakenly writes that AS is longer than both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings combined. A paperback of AS comes in at about 1192 pages. LOTR comes in at 1137 by itself... Another fail.

The author then goes on to identify that Jim Taggart doesn't really enjoy life (accurate) and that this somehow empowers the Objectivists to do whatever they want. Uh... A -> !B. He also neglects to mention that the Industrialists do nothing illegal - they simply refuse to do anything. What's even funnier here is that he doesn't even realize that he's taking the side of the government in implying that those who have Shrugged have a responsibility to remain enslaved! [eye roll]. He is making the entire point of the book!

And someone please correct me, but I don't remember anything about Nathaniel Taggart from the book. I'm pretty sure I would have remembered if he had "murdered a State Legislator" or "pimped out his wife" as collateral for a loan.

It's at this point that I just had to give up, because it's pretty clear that the guy skimmed the book and read into it his own version of fantasy. Among the more fantastic lines and accusations:
Dagny threatened to kill anyone who stood in her way.
Ragnar was plundering government ships sent with "aid."
D'Anconia raped Dagny and Objectivism condones rape.
D'Anconia had rigged the living quarters to kill his workers.
That Hank Reardon is uncaring toward his wife and brother.
Dagny has better taste in jewelry than Lillian Reardon.
Dagny's initial test of the John Galt line ignores the safety of population centers.
Hank and Dagny have rough sex and Hank disdains Dagny afterward.
"the ordinary humans are working on their latest evil plan to hold billionaires accountable for their selfish, harmful actions."
"under Objectivism, ordinary humans are expected to toil under their billionaire employers and accept work as its own reward."

I can go on and on, but it's all just so over-the-top. It's as if this guy was writing this while on PCP. The author attempts to turn a phrase, but just ends up turning over his own bull - all green and squishy and pungent.

It also occurred to me that this tirade could be satirical, at least in part. The ad hominem argument also comes to mind.

Please don't paint all Canadians with the brush presented by this goofball. That, as you well know, is just collectivism. (There were some black people involved in the black lives matter riots, and, you know, what do you expect? You know how black people are.) Have you forgotten the Truckers' Convoy? Up here in Alberta we have a burning resentment of Turdoh and his WEF/Marxist politics. A lot of us are talking an independent free enterprise state. I read Atlas Shrugged five times and The Fountainhead three times along with whatever else I could find written by Rand.

A cheap hit piece, only peripherally grounded in reality, that edifies/exonerates all statists and collectivists who want to dismiss the greatest, most revolutionary philosopher and ethicist of the 20th century without even reading a single page from any of her works.

Three words: Know your enemy.

I notice the comment section is conveniently and very conspicuously missing!

I do this too. I have my car radio perma-set to NPR as well as my Alexa in the kitchen, to listen when I'm cooking. I also tune into different city NPR stations, as some of the programs in Tulsa, for example, are different from programs in Dallas.

I hate 'em all, but it gives me a HUGE heads up on the new "in" wording, and where the country is going politically, at least what they WANT to happen. And believe it or not, an occasional science program I couldn't find anywhere else.

Thank you! I was beginning to wonder if ANYBODY was going t notice this!! I wanna know what we are supposed to be doing!! (I mean, my FRIEND wants to know... of course)

I didn't know of any of these traits I am supposed to harbor. Guess I have to change my outlook on living and have a "FRANK" discussion with my wife. :-))

Well, I say "Congratulations" to His Majesty's Turnbull and his 153 followers. I really liked his posts explaining the Lord of The Rings trilogy...don't think I ever would've got it, without his help.

Atlas Shrugged...you either really love it, or really hate it.

My mom's side are Canadian, and although they are very nice people, they're thoroughly brainwashed.

If Rand's works were really as awful as he believes them to be, why give the books oxygen?
He should keep his mouth shut and tout leftie books instead.

Truth is, he knows deep down she was right, and he's scared people will read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and begin to think for themselves.

You know what they say, the more flak you're taking, the closer you are to the target.

I have NPR on in the AM while enjoying a cup of coffee. I want to hear how the other side distorts reality so that I can sharpen my mental tools to do battle with them directly, and indirectly by offering guidance to folks that are still sitting on the fence.

Poor guy has descended down into a labyrinthine rabbithole with so many Left turns, he is hopelessly lost forever...his spaceship was last sighted, spinning out of control, in overdrive, rocketing past Pluto...

To your point about the haves vs. the have nots: When Obummer gave craploads of money to General Motors, he did it with the almost-demand that they eliminate all but two of their divisions. The two he wanted them to keep? Cadillac and Chevrolet. If there was ever a better example of haves and have nots, I don't think I've seen it.

This is a guy who has spent way too much time in the social sciences department of the local elitist university. He probably read "The Territorial Imperative" by Robert Ardrey, at an impressionable age, and never recovered, poor fellow.

Once again, this silly lad is gaslighting... it's what many critics of Ayn Rand and Objectivism do -- and they do it with a lack of self-awareness. Call it broad brush, but I do tend to associate my level of affinity with another individual in terms of that individuals views of Ayn Rand's writings -- both fiction and non-fiction.

Me dino looked it up.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brocia....

We should ALWAYS know how they attack us. So that we might defend ourselves in private company, and in the public.

I used to be in the Tea Party. But the Media had people HONESTLY believing we were semi-terroristic and white supremacist. I was recruiting younger people, and they were like "I like the ideas, but I could never tell my peers... They believe "

It was crazy. Every rally I attended was peaceful (except when others started crap), and we cleaned up before we left, like RATIONAL people.

Meanwhile, check out the garbage left behind by the OTHER groups that are "well regarded" by the media...

So me dino is super-human? That must be why my moniker, apex predator of North America during the Jurassic Period, had way better looking arms than T-Rex of the Cretaceous Period.
Wait, a dino ain't even human~never mind super-human. And they are extinct.
Never mind. I can't even be as silly as H. M. Turnbull's bull.

Converted to English for you:

Normal Women are attracted to Normal Men.

Normal Men think highly of High Thinking Women (Rand), who values someone based on their work, not their "victimhood status"

And to attack these people, lets include "Cigarette Smoking"... Something DOCTORS used to advertise in Rands era, and I would guess modern day "Randians" are far less likely to do than the "regular" brain-washed vaping morons paying $$$ to be lectured by such a modern day progressive as the author who wrote the Drivel you refer to.

ie, lets turn people off from reading Rand, lest she ignite another fire, inside another future communist that PREVENTS them from going all Collectivist. (Notice how he never PROPERLY uses the COLLECTIVIST term... Because it hits too close to home!) [He tries to use it in terms of Science, Sharing and Community... No, these are TAKERS, not sharers. They share in YOUR production, never sharing THEIR production... He glosses over this]