The reason the novel Atlan Shrugged keeps going on about railroads is it was published in the 1950s, when railroads were still an important thing in the USA, harking back to the era of railroad tycoons and steel mills of the 1900s. The scriptwriters who set the movie in 2016 should really have updated that to tech companies or whatever.
Atlas shrugged keeps you hooked with the missing people mystery and VERY slowly drip feeding clues, so that being the earliest reveal in the film is maybe the dumbest thing about it
Someone needs to make a Starship Troopers-esque parody of Atlas Shrugged. Like, in the first chapter with the red light, have it turn out that there's a collapsed bridge up ahead, and have Dagny use literal magic to float the train across the gap. With the train conductor looking at her in baffled amazement remarking about how if there wasn't a wizard on board everyone would be dead. Have the secret ingredient in Rearden metal be pixie tears, and have John Galt's perpetual motion machine work by draining energy from unstable portals to hell. We're going DOOM, baby. John Galt's entire plan hinges on a headband created using the still beating heart of a succubus what allows him to mind control people on a whim.
I have a different and equally terrible interpretation of the line telling atlas to shrug. The movie is about how rich powerful people all earned their money and the government is oppressing them somehow, and this story is suggesting that atlas should not bear the weight of the world and instead shrug the earth off his shoulders. The shrug is interesting. He's not to throw it or drop it or stand up, he's told to just shrug the world off. A sign of apathy. The message of this section is "kill humanity with your apathy to other peoples lives, it's your right as a rich person".
I mean, being fair to her, she left pretty early on in her life (after benefitting from free education and healthcare, of course) So, maybe, by the time she was writing the book and spilling her rancid lies on TV, she had forgotten? Presumably due to the brainrot of trying to create a coherent (and I do mean trying) logic in defending billionaires
The only way any of the beliefs extolled in these movies work even slightly is by stapling something on. They can't argue that charity work is bad, so they staple on "The charity worker is a bad person though." They can't argue that the billionaires at the top matter to the business, so they staple on "So when they leave for Rapture they destroy all the infrastructure as they leave." They can't argue that government regulation is bad, so they staple on "But the government are engaging in sabotage." Also, the stapled on bits for 1 and 3 are just "They're greedy", which the movie argues is a good thing anyway, but logical consistency is the third least likely thing for a libertarian to show. The second is the capacity to learn and the first is an attraction to consenting adults. (The book, and other books by Rand, portray rape Positively.) (I'm sure the age of consent in Galt's Gulch is "That's commie speak, now come see this child I bought.")
Gotta love how the rich "strikers" are like "we aren't trying to impose our values on people" while they are attacking ships, blowing stuff up and killing people.
...This is what we are supposed to argue against?? Jesus Christ. The rich "strikers" didn't do any of that. They did not impose their values on anyone, in fact, they subscribed to the values of everyone. By rendering their mind useless, which what was deemed "evil", and then working on jobs of the exact opposite nature, like being a Janitor and thus work not to accumulate wealth which is selfish greed. The "attacking" ships is Ragnar putting the "enemy's" values against them, which is might, guns and power. He realized that the enemy is imposing their values on them not just through political pressure, but with muscles. And so decided to subscribe to that idea, by throwing hands with them and giving them their values. And to answer this braindead take in a literal interpretation, no, he did not kill anyone. He always send warning on ships through radio, to give time for the crew to leave through lifeboats.
Dangy Taggert is the worst Mary Sue to ever exist. This video has reminded me of the first part of the book where she makes the train not be delayed by... Telling the worker that it won't be delayed. Fantastic. The fact THAT was written by an adult. It has the same energy as me thinking that traffic jams were caused by someone driving slowly at the front when I was a kid. Thank you for suffering for us.
How is she a Mary Sue exactly? Because she's a god when it comes to making decisions for the railroad? But that is her literal field of expertise, that is where she is the best at. Is IP Man, suddenly a Mary Sue because this renowned god tier fighter wins every fight? No Dagny isn't a Mary Sue because aside from anything related to the rail-road, she fucking sucks. She has no idea how to socialize, she couldn't connect the dot of the inventor of the motor and John Galt-because she's not a detective, and not a Mary Sue to suddenly just make the connection despite not having knowledge or expertise in detective work. She never went into a debate nor win any, because she's not a philosopher. She did not invent anything, she couldn't stop anyone from vanishing, need I say more? And to answer your braindead statement. Dagny did not stop the train from being delayed by telling the worker it won't be delayed. She stopped it from being delayed by making an action, making a decision, and enforcing it in her name on the spot and taking sole responsibility. Which prior to that, if you paid attention, which you clearly didn't, we have seen characters avoiding responsibilities, decisions, and actions. James Taggart and the railroad staff, they all were not doing anything, as if there's something to go wrong, they'll be blamed. It's to always not do something, and to let someone make decisions. We saw that their plan was to wait for the broken red signal to go green, which will get them late, why? Because it's inaction, it's waiting, it's to not do anything. The fact that this is written by an adult, with a working brain.
After the first 5 minutes of this video I can already tell you'll be one of my favourite youtubers and I will binge watch through your uploads like a maniac.
I just found your channel and thank god someone did a video on Atlas Shrugged, so I don't have to include it in my own Ayn Rand video. I study history and took a course called "Libertarianism in Denmark and The US", where we were allowed to hand in our exam that semester in video format. I was only allowed a max of 13 mins tho, so I didn't have the time to get into Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead back then, even though it could have been obvious since my legal name happens to be Atlas. I did it on her knock-off 1984, "Anthem" which is a 100 pages about.... a post-apocalyptic world where the word "I" is illegal... it was teeth pulling to read. I'm taking notes for my Ayn Rand 2.0 video! I hope I never have to read anything by Ayn ever again.
42:11 "...for the final ideological spear to pierce the metaphorical side my brain as it writhes atop a rugged cross in the hills of Golgotha, mere hours before it can turn its eyes towards the heavens and proclaim 'I AM, it is accomplished.' then: finally rest."
coming from the american psycho is gay video, you've definitely gotten my sub within like 10 minutes, you remind me of hbomberguy for obvious reasons, but you stand alone as a different critic with your topics
When I saw this movie (with no knowledge of the book), after watching the main characters for the first half hour I still assumed it was a movie that started out exploring the bad guys. "interesting!" I thought. Imagine my disappointment and confusion when it dawned on me that these terrible, boring people with no motivations other than their own vanity, were actually the protagonists!! There's literally nothing at stake in the entire movie except some profits for some rich people. My only criticism of objectivism (other than that the world would be terrible if people adhered to it) is that it is an incredibly boring way to look at the world.
For the record, the age of consent in Japan, as I understand it, is actually 18, for the most part. The issue is that the country has an age of consent of 14, but, like, every district (or whatever) they have has their own laws, and most of them have it at 18.
Dude, I just found this video on my feed, and I have to say you're CRIMINALLY under-watched and under-subscribed to. I hope you keep up your videos because this was a little great gem that I so appreciate 💙💙
Have you read the novel Bioshock: Rapture? It is a prequel to the game, and a solid subversion of this story, about a rich objectivist who disappears people into his golden city at the bottom of the sea. Then society cracks and begin to collapse due to the widespread poverty, rampant crime and drug problems, as the rich sit in their gilded homes.
That's also just Bioshock to be fair. The whole game is commentary on libertarianism and objectivism and is meant to depict what would happen after the book ended. Andrew Ryan = John Galt. All his monologues are meant to be references to the big john galt speech
My favorite teacher in high school tried to groom me into “objectivism” by giving me The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as graduation presents, complete with yellow highlighted passages. I read them avidly, because I too was certainly a super special unique individual creative genius with a nascent disdain of the masses. Later, when he was speaking at my college, I asked Jello Biafra what he thought of Ayn Rand and he set me straight by simply stating: “I think she’s a fascist.” Thanks, Jello!
The best director for Atlas Shrugged would be Michael Moore. He could keep original dialog from the book while quietly making fun of the concepts in the background like Airplane!😅
I'm only 17 minutes in and I'm having so much fun! I've always felt this book was evil, but I live in Texas, and everyone here treats this story like the Bible. 😄Thank you for this video!
I was so triggered that I enjoyed the first one then had to adjust to a whole different cast of the characters only to have thr third part change AGAIN for third WHILST ALSO discovering I was enjoying *HALLMARK CHANNEL** from UK Manchester hahahahaha
Dude, became an instant fan o'yours 'cause of this video. Had me laughing during a Zoom meeting that I was not paying attention to. I hope my boss didn't notice.
The review embodies The Fatal Conceit - Friedrich Hayek, The Vision of the Anointed - Thomas Sowell and the impossibility of price calculation (Mises). If collectivists understood economics and had any ethics they would not be collectivists.
I stumbled upon this book years ago but couldn’t understand all of it and gave up after a few hundred pages. I genuinely tried to understand why people “ like” it and I just don’t get it. It’s becoming a bit like a “unicorn” in that I want to finish reading it just to say I finished it. But it’s absolutely a well written piece of garbage.
Love the content, but please fix the volume modulation so it's consistent and isn't screaming at me unexpectedly. Small quibble, keep up the excellent work.
9:25 Hang on - from anyone's perspective, that makes no sense. All that encourages is for people to amalgamate all their holdings into mega-corporations, while not actually sacrificing any of their individual wealth.
Wait wait wait a minute... They had Armin Shimerman in this movie and they missed the opportunity to put him in his Quark makeup and have him play Reardon?
As that exact bookish fourteen year old from the classic John Rogers quote (the one about _Atlas Shrugged_ and _LOTR_ ), even at my peak cringe i thought AS was shit. _Fountainhead_ has its own problems but at least it new how basic pacing worked
(1) I deeply appreciated that An Inspector Calls reference as someone who studied it in school and has now seen it referenced exactly twice in pop culture (both from Britons; I’m Canadian) (2) The joke about premarital sex is good but it’s worth noting that Ayn Rand, though a hypocrite in many areas, was actually serious about individual liberty. She criticized Republicans of her day for being anti-abortion, for instance, and didn’t believe in God. So premarital sex probably didn’t bother her.
Yeah, Ayn Rand was so serious about "individual liberty" that she, while she was married, had a blatant affair with a guy from her cultish followers commune (who I might add was also married), _and then_ told her husband and her lover's wife that they should feel honored because as the world's greatest mind she, Ayn Rand, was of course entitled to such affairs. When her own husband then had an affair with another woman, Ayn Rand flew into a rage and expelled him from the commune.
Owen, I must correct you. I'm not conservative or objectivist, but I have to defend conservatives from your repeated implication that Objectivism is at all conservative. It is absolutely not. Objectivism is objectively radical, bordering on nihilism but at the same time utopian. Rand despised conservatives and conservative institutions like religion and traditional hierarchies like patriarchy (she despised almost everything and everyone, tbf). Objectivism is probably even more radical than communism, and the pols who are influenced by her are not conservatives, they just call themselves that to win votes. Conservatives are basically timid, fearful folk, valuing group loyalty and resistant to change. Romantic but hard-headed. Objectivists are .... well, you know .... psychopaths. I love your snark, but I'm serious here and I think it's important to make this distinction
Are you fucking kidding me with how many people are in this?!? Richard Bates from Californication, Daisy from Super Mario Bros, the devil from Reaper, the Principal from Veronica Mars, Lawrence from Office Space, and Biff Tannen!!!
btw i really hope u enjoyed college and im stoked that youve been able to pursue a passion of yours and i love that u have a platform to show and use your talents and understanding and thats really pog for a wanker
43:06 dude I’ve got an IMDb page (with no credits coz uncredited credits only go up on a whim and I was only a supporting artist as policeman who tackled a racist thug)
I can't say I'm a big fan of Rand's fiction, preferring to read her non-fiction instead. Ayn Rand made the wrong choice to represent her ideas in fictional form. If you must read 'Atlas Shrugged', then balance it out with another example of political fiction, such as 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell.
36:05 silly orowen, you have far too much faith in the police not murdering suspects with a flimsy excuse and not be prosecuted because the prosecutor needs to stay on the department’s good side
It would be really interesting to see an Atlas Shrugged or Fountainhead adaptation that deviates from the book *just* enough to completely bastardize the themes and demonstrate how absurd objectivism really is. You’d also probably need to cut a good bit to make it not an absolute chore to watch (not that there’s a lack of extraneous material to choose from)
lmao I had completely forgotten atlas shrugged was adapted, and I don't think I ever even knew a part 3 was made. This movie only succeeds in proving that objectivism is objectively stupid.
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The reason the novel Atlan Shrugged keeps going on about railroads is it was published in the 1950s, when railroads were still an important thing in the USA, harking back to the era of railroad tycoons and steel mills of the 1900s. The scriptwriters who set the movie in 2016 should really have updated that to tech companies or whatever.
And interstate commerce through trucks was incredibly regulated, expensive, and hard to get in
Atlas shrugged keeps you hooked with the missing people mystery and VERY slowly drip feeding clues, so that being the earliest reveal in the film is maybe the dumbest thing about it
As the other person who watched all of these terrible movies so that my friends didn't have to, I salute you good sir. Your sacrifice was not in vain.
Leonard Read’s I, Pencil.
“Omg the billionaires have gone, the workers have totally forgotten every thing and just around like zombies going ug ug. “
This is the perfect video to do 10 grams of mushrooms and destroy your brain forever to
That leads to thinking about the ancestors
Smoked a joint before watching this and by God it made the experience of watching those awful films almost bearable
40:20 I meant Gina Carano and am expecting a defamation suit from Gina Torres any day now
7:41 Hang on this video last 1 Hour 2 min 😮
Oh thank god, I was very worried for a hot minute. I love Gina Torres
I literally went to look this up because I was like NO WAY MS. TORRES..
Someone needs to make a Starship Troopers-esque parody of Atlas Shrugged.
Like, in the first chapter with the red light, have it turn out that there's a collapsed bridge up ahead, and have Dagny use literal magic to float the train across the gap. With the train conductor looking at her in baffled amazement remarking about how if there wasn't a wizard on board everyone would be dead.
Have the secret ingredient in Rearden metal be pixie tears, and have John Galt's perpetual motion machine work by draining energy from unstable portals to hell. We're going DOOM, baby.
John Galt's entire plan hinges on a headband created using the still beating heart of a succubus what allows him to mind control people on a whim.
Accidently read this as "watching all the CLOUD ATLAS films so you don't have to". Was a bit surprised when you started talking about Objectivism...
I have a different and equally terrible interpretation of the line telling atlas to shrug. The movie is about how rich powerful people all earned their money and the government is oppressing them somehow, and this story is suggesting that atlas should not bear the weight of the world and instead shrug the earth off his shoulders. The shrug is interesting. He's not to throw it or drop it or stand up, he's told to just shrug the world off. A sign of apathy. The message of this section is "kill humanity with your apathy to other peoples lives, it's your right as a rich person".
39:18 thats not even how things worked in the USSR Ayn should have known this, SHE WAS BORN THERE!
I mean, being fair to her, she left pretty early on in her life (after benefitting from free education and healthcare, of course)
So, maybe, by the time she was writing the book and spilling her rancid lies on TV, she had forgotten? Presumably due to the brainrot of trying to create a coherent (and I do mean trying) logic in defending billionaires
My dad (America conservative) reads this books and always leaves it out on the table for everyone to see. What a horror!!!
You have no idea what you're missing. Your ignorance will be your downfall.
you a Spanish speaker? I've never heard "Qué horror" in English before
@@ultureits English as well. My mom says “what a horror”. Just a little old school in English i guess
it's father's day here in brazil so the f*ck you message meant a lot. thank you owen!!
The only way any of the beliefs extolled in these movies work even slightly is by stapling something on.
They can't argue that charity work is bad, so they staple on "The charity worker is a bad person though."
They can't argue that the billionaires at the top matter to the business, so they staple on "So when they leave for Rapture they destroy all the infrastructure as they leave."
They can't argue that government regulation is bad, so they staple on "But the government are engaging in sabotage."
Also, the stapled on bits for 1 and 3 are just "They're greedy", which the movie argues is a good thing anyway, but logical consistency is the third least likely thing for a libertarian to show. The second is the capacity to learn and the first is an attraction to consenting adults. (The book, and other books by Rand, portray rape Positively.) (I'm sure the age of consent in Galt's Gulch is "That's commie speak, now come see this child I bought.")
Gotta love how the rich "strikers" are like "we aren't trying to impose our values on people" while they are attacking ships, blowing stuff up and killing people.
...This is what we are supposed to argue against?? Jesus Christ. The rich "strikers" didn't do any of that. They did not impose their values on anyone, in fact, they subscribed to the values of everyone. By rendering their mind useless, which what was deemed "evil", and then working on jobs of the exact opposite nature, like being a Janitor and thus work not to accumulate wealth which is selfish greed. The "attacking" ships is Ragnar putting the "enemy's" values against them, which is might, guns and power. He realized that the enemy is imposing their values on them not just through political pressure, but with muscles. And so decided to subscribe to that idea, by throwing hands with them and giving them their values. And to answer this braindead take in a literal interpretation, no, he did not kill anyone. He always send warning on ships through radio, to give time for the crew to leave through lifeboats.
I miss who I was when I didn’t know these movies existed.
Here is a gift of the new steel, a bracelet.
I'd be like, what, how about a suit of chainmail made out of it instead?
That'd be much better.
If Hbomberguy had a son
This movie was about trains then I looked away and there were sci-fi elements...
Dangy Taggert is the worst Mary Sue to ever exist. This video has reminded me of the first part of the book where she makes the train not be delayed by... Telling the worker that it won't be delayed.
Fantastic.
The fact THAT was written by an adult. It has the same energy as me thinking that traffic jams were caused by someone driving slowly at the front when I was a kid.
Thank you for suffering for us.
How is she a Mary Sue exactly? Because she's a god when it comes to making decisions for the railroad? But that is her literal field of expertise, that is where she is the best at. Is IP Man, suddenly a Mary Sue because this renowned god tier fighter wins every fight? No Dagny isn't a Mary Sue because aside from anything related to the rail-road, she fucking sucks. She has no idea how to socialize, she couldn't connect the dot of the inventor of the motor and John Galt-because she's not a detective, and not a Mary Sue to suddenly just make the connection despite not having knowledge or expertise in detective work. She never went into a debate nor win any, because she's not a philosopher. She did not invent anything, she couldn't stop anyone from vanishing, need I say more?
And to answer your braindead statement. Dagny did not stop the train from being delayed by telling the worker it won't be delayed. She stopped it from being delayed by making an action, making a decision, and enforcing it in her name on the spot and taking sole responsibility. Which prior to that, if you paid attention, which you clearly didn't, we have seen characters avoiding responsibilities, decisions, and actions. James Taggart and the railroad staff, they all were not doing anything, as if there's something to go wrong, they'll be blamed. It's to always not do something, and to let someone make decisions. We saw that their plan was to wait for the broken red signal to go green, which will get them late, why? Because it's inaction, it's waiting, it's to not do anything.
The fact that this is written by an adult, with a working brain.
This has become my go-to comfort video and I cannot explain why. I think it's just top-tier content ❤
After the first 5 minutes of this video I can already tell you'll be one of my favourite youtubers and I will binge watch through your uploads like a maniac.
I just found your channel and thank god someone did a video on Atlas Shrugged, so I don't have to include it in my own Ayn Rand video.
I study history and took a course called "Libertarianism in Denmark and The US", where we were allowed to hand in our exam that semester in video format. I was only allowed a max of 13 mins tho, so I didn't have the time to get into Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead back then, even though it could have been obvious since my legal name happens to be Atlas.
I did it on her knock-off 1984, "Anthem" which is a 100 pages about.... a post-apocalyptic world where the word "I" is illegal... it was teeth pulling to read.
I'm taking notes for my Ayn Rand 2.0 video! I hope I never have to read anything by Ayn ever again.
Glad I've found the successor to HBomberGuy. So damn funny and interesting
One of the greatest book titles ever though, I will give her that.
I’ve been waiting for this for years
42:11 "...for the final ideological spear to pierce the metaphorical side my brain as it writhes atop a rugged cross in the hills of Golgotha, mere hours before it can turn its eyes towards the heavens and proclaim 'I AM, it is accomplished.' then: finally rest."
13:35 - That's Armin Shimmerman who played Quark on Deep Space Nine. The poor bastard.
This is hilarious, thanks, mate! This video is exactly how it felt to learn about aYn in uni.
coming from the american psycho is gay video, you've definitely gotten my sub within like 10 minutes, you remind me of hbomberguy for obvious reasons, but you stand alone as a different critic with your topics
Look at the book cover, then look at Henry van Staten's portrait in his office.
When I saw this movie (with no knowledge of the book), after watching the main characters for the first half hour I still assumed it was a movie that started out exploring the bad guys. "interesting!" I thought. Imagine my disappointment and confusion when it dawned on me that these terrible, boring people with no motivations other than their own vanity, were actually the protagonists!!
There's literally nothing at stake in the entire movie except some profits for some rich people. My only criticism of objectivism (other than that the world would be terrible if people adhered to it) is that it is an incredibly boring way to look at the world.
For the record, the age of consent in Japan, as I understand it, is actually 18, for the most part. The issue is that the country has an age of consent of 14, but, like, every district (or whatever) they have has their own laws, and most of them have it at 18.
Dude, I just found this video on my feed, and I have to say you're CRIMINALLY under-watched and under-subscribed to. I hope you keep up your videos because this was a little great gem that I so appreciate 💙💙
Have you read the novel Bioshock: Rapture? It is a prequel to the game, and a solid subversion of this story, about a rich objectivist who disappears people into his golden city at the bottom of the sea.
Then society cracks and begin to collapse due to the widespread poverty, rampant crime and drug problems, as the rich sit in their gilded homes.
That's also just Bioshock to be fair. The whole game is commentary on libertarianism and objectivism and is meant to depict what would happen after the book ended. Andrew Ryan = John Galt. All his monologues are meant to be references to the big john galt speech
Had to subscribe after the age of consent joke, too good
Well....... this is just one man"s opinion
31:11 Henry Kissinger turned 100 years old today so Owen was really onto something
I had absolutely never ever wondered what the age of consent in Japan was until you mentioned it, and now I’m horrified 4:11
If nothing else, Esai Morales, who plays Francisco in Part II, radiates charisma.
I love telling strangers about this series. I describe it as "Twilight without the Good parts"
I now know less about hunchback map book book than I did before watching the video but the jokes were good 11/10 another triumpf for the free market
My favorite teacher in high school tried to groom me into “objectivism” by giving me The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as graduation presents, complete with yellow highlighted passages. I read them avidly, because I too was certainly a super special unique individual creative genius with a nascent disdain of the masses. Later, when he was speaking at my college, I asked Jello Biafra what he thought of Ayn Rand and he set me straight by simply stating: “I think she’s a fascist.” Thanks, Jello!
This would've been good if the Wayans Bros. did it.🤣🤣🤣
The best director for Atlas Shrugged would be Michael Moore. He could keep original dialog from the book while quietly making fun of the concepts in the background like Airplane!😅
The most unrealistic thing about this is see Quark standing against capitalism. lol.
I'm only 17 minutes in and I'm having so much fun! I've always felt this book was evil, but I live in Texas, and everyone here treats this story like the Bible. 😄Thank you for this video!
To be fair, have you read the bible? Slavery and genocide are good, washing your hands is bad.
Did you know that DailyWire has plans for the Atlas Shrugged franchise? No joke
I was so triggered that I enjoyed the first one then had to adjust to a whole different cast of the characters only to have thr third part change AGAIN for third WHILST ALSO discovering I was enjoying *HALLMARK CHANNEL** from UK Manchester hahahahaha
these movies are like an ancap's wet- oh yeah wait that's why
You are, by far, my favourite British comedian
Goddamn I love the score to The Batman, sorry, can't help it. Such a great Batman theme, every time you played it, I got har- excited. I got excited.
New favourite channel
I actually thought the movies weren't that bad.
Dude, became an instant fan o'yours 'cause of this video. Had me laughing during a Zoom meeting that I was not paying attention to. I hope my boss didn't notice.
I really Wana watch this video but I can barely get past part one
thank you
44:07 bro hasn't heard of the FDA and the cost of human trials of drugs...
The movies probably wouldn't be so bad if they had a budget that would have permitted better production. 😮😮😮
The review embodies The Fatal Conceit - Friedrich Hayek, The Vision of the Anointed - Thomas Sowell and the impossibility of price calculation (Mises). If collectivists understood economics and had any ethics they would not be collectivists.
If objectivists realized their ethics were their opinions they wouldn't be objectivists.
9 grand a year? *stares in American education*
Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson
I stumbled upon this book years ago but couldn’t understand all of it and gave up after a few hundred pages.
I genuinely tried to understand why people “ like” it and I just don’t get it.
It’s becoming a bit like a “unicorn” in that I want to finish reading it just to say I finished it. But it’s absolutely a well written piece of garbage.
They are emotionally stunted sociopaths and the book tells them that it means they are better people. Basically.
Love the content, but please fix the volume modulation so it's consistent and isn't screaming at me unexpectedly. Small quibble, keep up the excellent work.
9:25 Hang on - from anyone's perspective, that makes no sense. All that encourages is for people to amalgamate all their holdings into mega-corporations, while not actually sacrificing any of their individual wealth.
Hey he studied creative writing let's point and laugh at his humiliation
"Oh, and the pianist disappears. The government tried to nationalize his fingers, I guess."
Pfffffffffffffffft.
My first video of yours. Absolutely hilarious, great job!
Amazing video keep it up
Wow you watched so others don't have to. Read that over and over until it sinks in. Make me laugh.
Wait wait wait a minute...
They had Armin Shimerman in this movie and they missed the opportunity to put him in his Quark makeup and have him play Reardon?
As that exact bookish fourteen year old from the classic John Rogers quote (the one about _Atlas Shrugged_ and _LOTR_ ), even at my peak cringe i thought AS was shit. _Fountainhead_ has its own problems but at least it new how basic pacing worked
(1) I deeply appreciated that An Inspector Calls reference as someone who studied it in school and has now seen it referenced exactly twice in pop culture (both from Britons; I’m Canadian)
(2) The joke about premarital sex is good but it’s worth noting that Ayn Rand, though a hypocrite in many areas, was actually serious about individual liberty. She criticized Republicans of her day for being anti-abortion, for instance, and didn’t believe in God. So premarital sex probably didn’t bother her.
Yeah, Ayn Rand was so serious about "individual liberty" that she, while she was married, had a blatant affair with a guy from her cultish followers commune (who I might add was also married), _and then_ told her husband and her lover's wife that they should feel honored because as the world's greatest mind she, Ayn Rand, was of course entitled to such affairs.
When her own husband then had an affair with another woman, Ayn Rand flew into a rage and expelled him from the commune.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog LMAO what an utterly predictable utter dick move on her part
Owen, I must correct you. I'm not conservative or objectivist, but I have to defend conservatives from your repeated implication that Objectivism is at all conservative. It is absolutely not.
Objectivism is objectively radical, bordering on nihilism but at the same time utopian. Rand despised conservatives and conservative institutions like religion and traditional hierarchies like patriarchy (she despised almost everything and everyone, tbf). Objectivism is probably even more radical than communism, and the pols who are influenced by her are not conservatives, they just call themselves that to win votes.
Conservatives are basically timid, fearful folk, valuing group loyalty and resistant to change. Romantic but hard-headed. Objectivists are .... well, you know .... psychopaths.
I love your snark, but I'm serious here and I think it's important to make this distinction
Betcha you think men can become women,doncha?
@@JimmyfromPhilly1-ub4hq and women can become men too.
@@randallbesch2424 Impossible
Wait, is that the bloke from Mulholand Drive?
My GOD
the brother of the white republican girlboss protagonist was in Resident Evil: Extinction! I saw his face get tentacled to death!
17:47 Hey, it's Darwin!
29:48 THAT'S DIEDRICH BADER!!! THAT'S ACTUALLY BATMAN!!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!
Are you fucking kidding me with how many people are in this?!? Richard Bates from Californication, Daisy from Super Mario Bros, the devil from Reaper, the Principal from Veronica Mars, Lawrence from Office Space, and Biff Tannen!!!
Cooper from Event Horizon!!!
28:55 ✊🎉
oh frick yeah oh frick yeah lets go!!!! yahoooo!
ur so nice 2 look at thats so slay for u
gosh ur smile is LOVELY thank god bc this movie fucking sucks
btw i really hope u enjoyed college and im stoked that youve been able to pursue a passion of yours and i love that u have a platform to show and use your talents and understanding and thats really pog for a wanker
43:06 dude I’ve got an IMDb page (with no credits coz uncredited credits only go up on a whim and I was only a supporting artist as policeman who tackled a racist thug)
31:19
Well this aged
damn, i can't believe you forced yourself through this. is it too on the nose to salute you or-
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
Glad to know there are still plenty of left-wing Owens
6:13 "Dagney is the brother of..."
I'm assuming the misgendering wasn't intentional?
I keep failing to not have the self control to not watch these
Here lies my country
born 1776
died 2012
rip bozo
I admit to watching all three movies and am usually quite adept at following plotlines etc. I had no idea this had a love triangle! 🤣
Ya know.
Expected bioshock but this still ended up great
Matthew Marsden shoukd have stuck to Corrie
Ayn Rand isn't a conservative, she's a radical liberal. Also not an anarchist, she believes in limited government.
She was not a liberal, but a neo-liberal.
I can't say I'm a big fan of Rand's fiction, preferring to read her non-fiction instead. Ayn Rand made the wrong choice to represent her ideas in fictional form. If you must read 'Atlas Shrugged', then balance it out with another example of political fiction, such as 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell.
36:05 silly orowen, you have far too much faith in the police not murdering suspects with a flimsy excuse and not be prosecuted because the prosecutor needs to stay on the department’s good side
It would be really interesting to see an Atlas Shrugged or Fountainhead adaptation that deviates from the book *just* enough to completely bastardize the themes and demonstrate how absurd objectivism really is. You’d also probably need to cut a good bit to make it not an absolute chore to watch (not that there’s a lack of extraneous material to choose from)
lmao I had completely forgotten atlas shrugged was adapted, and I don't think I ever even knew a part 3 was made. This movie only succeeds in proving that objectivism is objectively stupid.
I think we all owe George Lucas and Natalie Portman an apology for Star Wars Episode 1 after the acting and writing in this movie.
luv me toys, 'ate bedtimes. simple as.
Have a sub for your efforts, good sir.