Who is John Galt?

Ayn Rand is a good read and I read all her stuff. But I got a good education at an American university back when she was saying this too, and if you didn’t, that’s on you.

She definitely appeals to a reader who requires certainty and feels put upon by life’s complexities. Smart people outgrow her and see through her too. Just doing whatever you feel like isn’t actually a philosophy. In the end, she required public assistance too.

She was adamantly atheist, by the way. Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Since a great many of us dislike much that Miss Rand dislikes, quite as heartily as she does, many incline to take her at her word. It is the more persuasive, in some quarters, because the author deals wholly in the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. In this fiction everything, everybody, is either all good or all bad, without any of those intermediate shades which, in life, complicate reality and perplex the eye that seeks to probe it truly. This kind of simplifying pattern, of course, gives charm to most primitive storyknown as: The War between the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. In modern dress, it is a class war. Both sides to it are caricatures.

—Whittaker Chambers' review of Atlas Shrugged.

Race never worked his way through Atlas Shrugged?

<shocked face>

Exactly. The dazzler pulls this all the time. Some Assistant Deputy to a County Clerk in rural North Carolina says something stupid and the dazzler has the quote up as evidence of the the pervasive bigotry of the conservative movement. On the other hand all the major dem leaders are afraid to tell us what a woman is. Only Team Dazzler is all in on group think. There is good and evil and no one is perfect. But you can strive to be better. Ayn Rand is on the right side of the line. Anyone who wanted someone locked up for not taking the vaxx and denied medical care for not doing so is not on the right side of the line. Anyone who hates Musk because he freed Twitter is not on the right side of the line.