Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is the monument, the doctrine of the individual. No other piece of work, no person has ever been able to fully capture and understand the individual the way Ayn Rand did. She wrote of the movers of the Earth who built things, who progressed, and struggled to do things their way. Atlas Shrugged is about the collapse, and the rebirth of a nation.


Atlas Shrugged is centered around Dagny Taggart, the vice president of Taggart Transcontinental. She struggles to save her company in a world where the individuals value means nothing as the current state of the world decreases with the demand of equality- not the equality of rights, but the equality of property which causes peoples states rising up globally. The government passes legislation denouncing the rights of industry and promotes rights for the morally just. The other industrialists of Copper, Steel, coal, and oil disappear and seem to have let go of the human spirit, or have they?


It is fun to compare our modern world to Atlas Shrugged because with many of the new debated laws and the ideas of politics, America seems much closer than it did fifty years ago. I probably shouldn't say it, but Frankin D. Roosevelt was a very liberal president. He is a classic example of the much older symbols of socialism. Today we can use modern political figures like President Obama in the perspective of not only nationalized healthcare and how he intends to negotiate with terrorists in civilian court, but his politics- pushing his own agenda despite the demands of the general population. Or Al Gore for example. The rotten liar. He has insulted the intelligence of mankind by fooling them that progress actually sets our ecosystem in reverse. For you not familiar, Gore runs the IPCC which in fact, has lied provided false information of human related global warming. Now do not get me wrong, I do not dislike liberals, when I say the word liberal, I only use it to sum up the general ideology in it.


I read that in a survey, Atlas Shrugged was the second most influential book in the world, second only to the Bible. Look it up if you don't believe me. By the way, it is the 37th top book sold on Amazon.com, by the way. Now these statistics seem unreasonable for such a conservative book, but it is highly popular among Liberatarians and Republicans. I love fox news because they can explain what happens in the world like it is, very much like Atlas Shrugged.



Atlas Shrugged has been the greatest book I have ever read. It has transformed my values and , opinions, and my thought process. Sometimes I think that I should be the most hated guy in the world for believing in it. It has contradicted everything I learned in school. In fact, I think people respect the way I think of things and it has strengthened my relationship with my dad. My dad also loves the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Besides that fact, Atlas Shrugged has defined my thought process. I have always thought in this perspective, but it made me realize the motives and the purposes in people.