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I’m totally annoyed, why couldn’t I have gone and got some sweet free food at a Panara Cares! :-(
Panara’s always had a left wing feel – oh look we have our “natural” nongmo “organic” ridiculously overpriced products instead of just as good gmo and non”organic” products that are less expensive.
Atlas Shrugged is a bear to get through, I did it years ago when I had a daily train commute however the 20th Century Motor Corp section ( the Strarnsveiille that was mentioned) is only a few pages and I’ve always thought it should be required reading in high schools. It boils socialism down to its essentials , you can be either a sucker or a blood sucker , pay or take. It’s not only that it encourages a few bastards but that it turns decent men into bastards just to survive. I read it before I ever heard of Hillary Clinton and yet I saw her as Ivy Starns the moment I first saw her snarling face.
Ayn Rand still comprises the backbone of the conservative morality in many ways. I’ve always liked the Fountainhead as a story more than Atlas Shrugged. But some of the vignettes in A.S. are overpowering.
Mike and Todd hit it outa the park again!!! love the conversation!! also
love love this song!!!!
Oh we *love* to hear that! Thanks Jen!
Agreed that Atlas Shrugged can be a slog. You’re dead-on correct that the 20th Century Motor Corporation story – told to Dagny Taggart by stowaway Jeff Allen – is riveting. It made me break out in a cold sweat as I read it, and is the passage of the book that has stuck with me the longest.
That’s because The Fountainhead is a story. Atlas Shrugged is only half story, the other half is soapbox speechmaking. Once I figured that out, it became much easier to read. As soon as I realized I was in a soapbox speech, I’d skip ahead to where the story picked up.
Looking forward to listening to the podcast.
Missed this one while traveling. Probably can’t catch up this week.
But I mentioned you chaps just now. You guys are Exhibit 1 in my defense of the possibility of rational global warming skepticism.
That’s quite an honor. Thank you. I just watched Leo DiCaprio’s climate propaganda film over the weekend, which I rather liked, as it did a quick exploration of the impact of warming around the world. And what I gathered from the film was that the two most powerful, fast and effective things Americans could do to help is 1) eat chicken in place of red meat, and 2) stop buying products made with palm oil, which leads to huge deforestation problems. And this is what I’ve long wanted from the climate movement, some honest talk about what would work if the theories of human influence are true rather than trying to kidnap the movement to make other things happen, like electric cars and the grounding of airplanes in favor of trains.