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The John Galt speech actually has a point where he starts talking about, "what even is existence?"
My brothers and sisters in objectivism... go outside and touch grass if that's where you're gonna start a speech about why you stopped doing "smart people stuff"
Atlas Shrugged holds an appeal to Boomer and Gen-X because the main character is a smart and independent woman who finds herself in a love story (ahem: triangle).
It had massive appeal to these women at a time when they were still fighting for equality and rights.
Gen x woman here. Read it back in the 80s and even then thought it was insufferable twaddle.
Please don't mistake my anecdote for a sweeping assumption.
I'm legitimately shocked that my mother with an English degree actually liked it so much.
In an ironic way? (She said hopefully but knowing it probably wasn’t the case.) I will say this—not great but at least it didn’t compel me to throw it against a wall unlike the first Twilight book. Read strictly out of morbid curiosity and boy, was that a mistake.
May 15, 2025 15:54
