Atlas Shrugged in Less Than 8 Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- In just 8 minutes, explore the powerful themes and unforgettable characters of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's iconic novel that challenges the role of the individual in society. From the determined Dagny Taggart to the mysterious John Galt, this video breaks down the book’s complex ideas about capitalism, innovation, and the human spirit. Whether you’re new to the novel or revisiting its bold message, this summary is perfect for anyone looking to understand its lasting impact.
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I can sum up Atlas Shrugged in two words: 'Socialism Sucks'.
Atlas Shrugged came true in the collapse of the USSR, but the parallels to US monopoly regulation is weak.
@@frankb1 wait...
Based on a true story...
Read it at 15, then again at 45. I recommend you read a biography of Ayn Rand. I am now 75.
Read it at about 50. Loved it.
“I believe in Man as an heroic being, that happiness is his end, and logic is his one guide in achieving it.”
It’s so obvious why everyone hates this book.
I read Atlas Shrugged when I was too young to understand it. I think I'm ready to read it again.
Thanks for watching. It’s a mandatory read for the issues we face today.
Please do. Intelligence needs your help.
This channel is a great idea! Thank you.
We are so happy you enjoyed it. We started this channel to spur some conversation. Oftentimes life imitates art and we forget how valuable fiction can be in teaching us.
Thank you for this. I have heard "Atlas Shrugged" mentioned many times over the years but never got to know anything about it.
However, 3 weeks ago I ordered it from the local library and am now up to page 144, with more than a 1,000 pages to come.
I am not sure how many times I will be allowed to re-new as the book is due back in a week.
But, the book is interesting, but at the end may be above my intellect. I will finish it.
Glad it was helpful! And thanks for watching. Yes, it’s a pretty thick book, but very timely especially in this day and age.
I first read it in the eighties. Then again when Clinton got elected, then again with Obama. By the time Joe stole the white house I no longer bothered: I had memorized the book.
Keep on. It is worth every minute.
@@GeorgeDoughty-m8e Thank you.
@@henkvandenbergh1301 why the book , when all you have to do is open your curtain and see it unfolding in front of you?
It is about bloody time!
I read A/S 60 years ago, when is was fiction.
BTW - May I suggest to your readers; do not confuse Government Spending with Business.
One has nothing to do with the other.
Thanks for watching. It’s a great classic read for contemporary times.
With some notable exceptions I find her beliefs on the economy quite logical. Her view of interpersonal relations (weird adultery) was ... silly.
This is my favorite book. I've read it three times, and seen the movie. I wish more would read and understand it.
“I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.”
Less than 8 minutes is the only way I would ever read Atlas Shrugged.
Hope you enjoyed the video. Are there any other books you’d like us to do a video on?
Learning the truth takes effort. Some people want it handed to them. You sound like a typical looter. Put some effort in, read it or get an audio book.
A good 8 minute summary…
Thank you for the video. I've been a voracious reader since I was able to read. We didn't have much money in the house for books so I read whatever was around. My father's war novels, my older sister's school book assignments. I was continually checking books out of the school's library. My parents invested in a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica when I was 9. My brother and I read from Volume A to Z. . That was over 60 years ago. I have never read Ayn Rand, although I have been tempted a couple of times. I could not seem to follow her writing style. The elements of the book as you have laid out are along the lines of books that I would normally enjoy reading. I may have to give it one more try. Maybe this time I can stay with her.
Not a fan of the book. There are some pearls of wisdom in there but overall I find it boring. I feel people like to make parallels where there are none. I think it can be summed up best with this quote
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
The story reminds me of the space race and the difference between 'Free' America and 'enslaved' USSR, and that would have been apt back then, but now the corporate WEF globalism/socialism shows that the west doesn't deserve all the innovation it gets from its brightest and best.
I’m with Galt.
It's actually funny in 2024 because which of the modern industrialists are not the oligarchy itself? Few. Too few to cause a collapse by withdrawing.
Rand's best character is actually Mike, but that's another book.
Great channel.
I've never read the novel and never will, especially after this summary. It sounds like a narcist's belief that civilization will collapse in their absence. Civilization has survived plagues, war, and famine. Yet, it can't survive the absence of a few people. It's absurd. I'm for individualism but not at the expense of the community. A healthy individual, physically and psychologically, recognizes the need for community for the overall well-being of the individual and vice versa. One can not exist without the other.
Was the Greco-Roman ancient word a civilization? How about Mesoamerica? The patterns of beliefs and activities that hold communities together can and do collapse.
What caused the 'fall of the western roman empire?' Invaders? Illness? or maybe taxes and the destruction of small farms?
This book was written by a disaffected victim of communism who became so enamored of her capitalist saviors in the west that she became an irrational sycophant for the kind of democracy only a rampant anarcho-capitalist right winger can appreciate. The bit about regulation being the downfall of a free society supposes that the frothing mad draft horse that is capitalism should be unbridled and allowed to attack the wagon train of democracy at will. Pulling it where it pleases as it pleases.
The only worthwhile takeaway from this, thousand-plus pages, book is that communism is horror and Ayn Rand was so traumatized by it that she fell into an obsession with a tragic Russian caricature of western culture - the decadent selfish type. She ultimately became such a pain in the ass that all her friends left her to die alone because she ended up surrounding herself with people who were just as selfish and crappy as she was.
Her books are a love letter to her own misunderstanding of western values and her life is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks that selfish is a virtue.
It seems more selfish to make others support the bloated government and a equally bloated welfare system. It's happening right now in other countries and starting right now with millions of homeless being imported into this country along with fentanyl, sex traffickers and violent criminals. The left doesn't get it's way so they burn down businesses and neighborhoods.
Well written review. perfect summation
Well spoken!
You can invent a society based on hypothetical melt downs but in the end the real world takes over and all that you are left wit is fiction and sad characters that nobody relates to........If all of the World was paper and all of the thoughts were ink, the end result would be boring as nobody wants to think when the plot has already been formulated.
Atlas shrugged what?
Atlas shrugged off the evil entanglements of ?
The spoken summary is very good but the AI generated illustrations are awful and misleading.
I guess this is where we are headed, with AI generated content, illustrations, and narration. Meh.
In the French Revolution the individuals and creators either capitulated or were killed. And their society became a slow suicide.
Thanks for watching and commenting. History tends to repeat itself.
If only our self-considered best and brightest were better and brighter! If they understood ecology and sociology as well as they understand resource extraction and industrialization, then none of us would want government to say "whoa".
Atlas Smug. John Galt is Mary Sue in a business suit. Him Sooooo Special. Maybe him take short bus. Give me a break. Peak Assholism.
One of only two books I started but never finished. One of the worst works in the history of literature.
What was the other?
@@xnihilo1044 L. Ron Hubbard Scientology. Uh Oh make it three - The Bible.
@@uropygid why am I not surprised 🙄.
@@aaroncourchene4384 You have mastered the art of saying absolutely nothing with so few words.
Boring
As relevant as ever. It is the governments job to steal form the productive and give to the needy. You can just pass laws saying no one can be fired, even if the business is bankrupt. We once again had a fling with wage and price controls. As if government debt isn't the reason for inflation.
We think everyone should read this, just to understand the position of innovators who take on the most risk.
In New York the court ordered star bucks to reopen three closed stores and pay 16 months of back pay to the employees that lost their jobs @@8MinuteMasterpieces
What a horrible little book.
All shite.