GAM337 Atlas Shrugged Part One
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ย. 2024
- This week, we step away from religious cinema, but not away from nonsensical fantasies that can only perpetuate themselves through cultish reinforcement and a willing suspension of logic.
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/ scathingatheist
"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.
From one who hates capitalism. The book was and is prescient. Your assessment is faulty because you adore government and believe it SHOULD have power over you. Doubtful you ever read it. Government interference even now has resulted in gasoline and oil prices generally to go up and food and more. Government is responsible for the supply chain issues and it will get much worse. Violence will result before long and starvation in third world countries. YOUR preoccupation and trust in government policies is what is childish. People will go hungry here and suffer, but third world nations will starve all on the alter of the anthropogenic climate change hoax. If you are not an engineer (I am an electrical engineer and understand ALL the power technologies and their manufacturing processes) you have NOTHING to say on the subject. There is NO such thing as clean energy. PERIOD.
Solar and wind are unreliable and require huge tracts of land (which I presume you want confiscated from those who have provate property) and lots of batteries, the manufacturing of which will produce massive quantities of toxic waste far beyond the manufacturing and mining processes for the wind mills and their generators and the solar panels which are inefficient, require the sun to be out and strong and lose output at 1% per year requiring frequent replacement. You want a better world? Prove your commitment to it and kill yourself. If you leftists do that to show your commitment, you truly will leave the world better off.
Atlas Shrugged extolls the virtue of work and reward for work and that those who innovate and invest DESERVE what they have EARNED. No one owes another anything. I owe you nothing and you owe ME nothing. The oath is a good one:
I SWEAR BY MY LIFE AND MY LOVE OF IT THAT I WILL NEVER LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER MAN, NOR ASK ANOTHER MAN TO LIVE FOR MINE.
Your ilk will cause the collapse of society, but our side has all the guns and 12 TRILLION rounds of ammunition.
@@samadams6487 it’s actually impressive how brain dead you people can be.
@@samadams6487 trying to match Rand's word count, buddy? Enjoy your seething
@@aliasofgray2854 why should I see over an idiot's comment? That would be outside of rational objectivism. And I don't look at someone like you as a socialist or a communist whichever it is, as rational, you're just dangerous to individual liberty and when Civil War comes you will be the type we will be hunting down and not out of hatred but just as a need to get rid of things that are dangerous to a constitutional republic of limited government. Nothing more than that really.
@@samadams6487 Wow....what a complete load of bullshit. I could take the time to go point by point but to what end? You've obviously drunk the proverbial Kool Aid.
The last Atlus shrugged I watched was awesome.
Then again it WAS Bioshock.
yes thank you i was going to say this. and it's a great game
Oh hey! The ideology that an entire fictional city based its foundation on before crumbling into a wartorn dystopia! Sweet!
I have got to stop eating or drinking during your shows. Too many close calls of choking due to sudden laughter, and I must thank you for it.
So glad you're gonna tear this apart. One of my friends is a huge Randian libertarian and loves this, hopefully I can get him to watch this with me.
I hate conservative libertarians. They are always sooo creepy. I unfortunately have friends and fam that are.
Good luck with that, PlanetBob. Appeal to his ego by calling him "objective".
@@ttrestle Why have friends you hate?
@@adrianpetyt9167 I guess I should have said that I hate some of their political beliefs. Good point though. I’ve actually cut some of them out of my life because they’ve gotten so crazy. My mom for example. She became a Trump cultist. But my brother is mainly okay except for his libertarian beliefs. Ironically, every time I call him out and prove he’s wrong, he tends to end with some version of “well I don’t pay enough attention to the news, politics, facts, etc.” I’m like-well maybe you should so you finally found out your conservative and libertarian beliefs are idiotic. For example, he thinks SARS-CoV-2 is the same as a cold🤦🏻♂️
The movie is much better than the book, in that the one dimensional characters Ayn Rand created have become more complex, multidimensional characters by virtue of the media alone (being displayed as a two dimensional moving picture).
I love to read. The bigger the book the better. I've read some incredibly wordy books than ran to 1000 pages and more and finished every one of them; except for "Atlas Shrugged". About 9/10 of the way through I dumped it in the trash and never finished it. The hero of the book is systematically destroying the world economy, creating world wide poverty and starvation and is doing it doing it out of spite and ego.
No, the heroes (there are three) are NOT destroying the economy, government regulation is and the penalizing of the best of us. He simply shows how the government is trying to control them and penalize them and criticize them for their success. Imagine if the best went on strike. You would get what you deserve. You SHOULD get what you deserve--in fact that is the definition of justice: getting what one deserves. I hope you receive justice and not mercy (an unmerited gift). You did not understand the book. The people left behind HELPED govermment and cooperated and despised the producers. Where do you get the idea that the producers OWE you a damned thing; they do not.
@@samadams6487 cuuuuuuuuuuuck
I'm sure I'm not the first to think this but: "God Awful Media" could be useful in the future.
I think we all know the question isn't "Who is John Galt?"
It's "Have you seen the Yellow Sign?"
Atlas flopped and died a slow painful death taking everyone else with him.
"We making 'Atlas Shrugged: The Video Game'!"
It's called "Bioshock."
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow!
“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
Often people will say, the book was better. Here we can say, the book was less annoying as it didn't make noises or flash images of assholes directly, it's entirely silent and inert. The video game adaptation was better but only because you can psychically burn and crowbar legally distinct versions of these god-awful characters and their god-awful creator.
Speaking as someone who considered myself an Objectivist when I was an edgy teen, I am *very* glad to see y'all tear into this garbage!
Didn't heath say years ago, "a preventive no on all the atlas shrugged movies"?
When this"movie"first came out, l saw gold stickers asking; "who is john galt?" I had to write underneath; Which john galt? The obscure literary character or the historical footnote.
Probably to no one's surprise, there are multiple versions of the Atlas Shrugged bracelet being sold online. One promotes itself as "One Bracelet with Two Personalities!!" Side 1: polished. Side 2: unpolished, and dirty looking. Guaranteed to be the last straw in any relationship.
So I've always been a big fantasy nerd and I used to not understand people that say they hate fantasy. After this movie, I get it...
So good. Great to have everybody back in the studio.
The author's name is "Ayn." I think she named her characters what she did so that people wouldn't make fun of her name, and just focus on the dumb names in the story.
Her birth name in Russia was Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, so on balance Ayn Rand or Dagny Taggart may not have seemed bad. She also called herself Alice O'Connor, I guess when she wanted to feel extra American.
🎶Oooohhhh there once was a hero named Ragnar Danneskjold…🎶
Nice
The current fastest train is the Shanghai Maglev. Top speed near 268 mph, avg speed... 251 mph
7:07 honestly yeah the pasing of the book pisses me off way more than the messaging its just so long and rambling internal monologs and railroads and God damn a lot more words than actual content
Looking at the cast list disappoints me, particularly the actor who plays Francisco D'Anconia: Jsu Garcia. Best known for playing Rod Lane in the original Nightmare on Elm Street. Somehow Thomas F. Wilson from Back to the Future was in Part 2, and Eric Allen Kramer from Robin Hood Men in Tights plays Ragnar in part 3.
1:30:36 a lot of this could just show her voluntarily testing the metals because then it showed her taking on the risk and voluntarily doing things just justifying having wealth and power
1:28:30 but who is buying them especially if they're not also super rich
1:35:01 this scene in the book is also interminable
It sounds like this movie was written by r/latestagecapitalism.
Was Ayn Rand secretly two 4-year-old boys in a trenchcoat?