So I just downloaded Atlas Shrugged for my phone.

[white_wolf]

I'm still at the introduction and hearing Rand call people parasites is already pissing me off, I'm honestly not sure I'll be able to finish. If I do manage it I'll have to read Trotsky's biography again to get the horrible taste out of my mouth. Say what you will about the man, but at least he could write, unlike "Miss Rand."

[hlthe2b]

1. dangerous to load such content to an expensive smart phone...

I hope you can contain the urge to pitch it....;)

[Old and In the Way]

2. What if 30MM pirated this movie......

then didn't watch it?

[white_wolf]

3. This is the book.

As for pirating the movie, it fits with Objectvism. If self-interest is all that matters, then screw the law.

[Magron]

5. 'Steal This Book' ROTFLMFAO

[Magron]

4. man...now it won't be a 'smart' phone anymore

[patrice]

6. I read most of her novels when I was in highschool.

I thought Anthem was beautiful, but it was different from the other books which bugged me with those characters who would launch into these extended, REALLY long, speeches at the drop of a hat. Lots of expository writing. Maybe it was being an adolescent in the middle of differentiating myself as an individual from my parents and family (not so much from my peer group since I had always just barely been one of them anyway) that made her ideas glow for me. I new even then that the writing was almost intolerable. And once I knew who I am, the ideas came to seem really pretty sick to me.

[Occulus]

7. As an antidote, perhaps you should buy Bioshock for your PC, if it can handle it

The game deconstructs her philosophy (such as it is) in rather glorious fashion:

"I am Andrew Ryan and I am here to ask you a question:
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

No, says the man in Washington; it belongs to the poor.
No, says the man in the Vatican; it belongs to God.
No, says the man in Moscow; it belongs to everyone.

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something
different. I chose the impossible. I chose...

Rapture.

A city where the artist would not fear the censor.
Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality.
Where the great would not be constrained by the small.
And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."

--Andrew Ryan

He went on to build a vast city on the bottom of the Atlantic, a city the size of New York or thereabouts. It's actually very beautifully done in the game; everything is art deco and neon (where it's not torn apart or destroyed) and very atmospheric. Rapture, as he called it, falls apart- in some places, literally- with the breakout of civil war and many people are killed as Ryan loses control of the city. The savage survivors of that conflict are all that remains at the beginning of the game.

If your PC can play it, Bioshock is well worth the money, and will keep you from killing yourself while you read Rand's.... verbal vomit. Didn't she say she "admired" a rapist or serial killer or something for his "individuality"? Could have sworn I've read that in multiple sources...

[white_wolf]

8. I've been meaing to play Bioshock.

I'll download it, it should be fairly cheap now. The serial killer's name was Hickman.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Your phone is now a Stupidphone. An iMoron.

You can't have that much Rand on your phone without causing serious damage. I'll bet you will never be able to win another round of Angry Birds...

[white_wolf]

10. Damn it and I'm already stuck on a hard level.

Oh and don't you mean "moran"?