deepgeek wrote:

Mike the Usurper wrote:

deepgeek wrote:

Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis

Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009--Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual high in 2008 of about 200,000 copies sold.

“Americans are flocking to buy and read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day”

Bull. Sales of the book are up because it keeps showing up on the news as Greenspan's favorite book. Considering the primary market for the piece of crap (colleges) it's a nice deal for her estate that the book is selling, but it's still crap.

Do people really care about Greenspan that much. My God, he was a kid when he liked that book. Maybe these "news" people don't mention that, eh?

So I take it you think the spin is crap as well as the book being crap too, right?
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Deepgeek

I think the source can think whatever they want, but I think if businesses actually get a surge of Galt-ism, the rest of us may have our own surge of pitchfork-ism.

Yes, people go care about Greenspan that much, he was until about 6 months ago considered by many to have the best understanding of the US economy of anyone on the planet. Of course the economy going down the crapper kinda burned that theory.

As I side note, I sort of liked reading The Fountainhead, although I think her premise was completely wrong. Atlas Shrugged however is some sort of bastard love child of Adam Smith, and Friedrich Nietzsche with a little dose of Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake," and some Harlequin romance novel (or maybe some Bill O' fiction) thrown in. Any way you slice it, the premise is faulty, and the writing is about as much fun as watching paint dry.

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