好久没谈fountainhead 跟Atlas shrugged了.
ased upon the controversial 1957 novel by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged follows the struggles of Dagny Taggart, a railroad heiress trying to maintain her integrity, and keep her family's railroad alive in the midst of a rapidly decaying world. She faces increasingly corrupt government agencies, the callous incompetence of her own brother, and the systematic loss of her best and most competent workers. As she works to overcome each obstacle, she begins to detect a pattern, and suspect a sinister force working against her. All across the country, there is a growing sense of helplessness, often summed up in a catch phrase that everyone seems to know, but no one knows the origin of - Who is John Galt?. One by one, the best and brightest industrialists in the country are disappearing overnight, without a trace, and abandoning their businesses to be cannibalized by corrupt political interests. But many are disappearing just as she needs them most, leading her to realize that someone, some destroyer, is keeping just ahead of her, and is working against her. As she wonders what he could be telling these men - to get them to give up everything and disappear - she knows she must somehow beat him if she wants Taggart Transcontinental to survive.
She pursues the mystery cross country looking for clues to the destroyer, and also to find the inventor of a revolutionary motor she found in a trash pile of an abandoned industrial lab. As the world sinks further into decay, she knows her time for saving her railroad, and maybe staving off the collapse of the world around her, is growing short. However, the revelations she seeks will ultimately challenge her views, and force her to decide between fighting in her world, or leaving everything she's valued behind.
- Re: 豆大师读过Ayn Rand的书吗?posted on 04/18/2009
读到过 提到Ayn Rand的文字,不是特别清楚她的思想,因为还未来得及读她写的东
西。好象是libertarian的一个分支?也许不是?好象有一个网页专门是关于Ayn Rand的
思想的,类似mises.org? mises.org 里的一些无政府思想,本人不是特别信服或根
本不信服,本人主要喜欢读里面提供的那些免费的奥派经济学书,宝库也。象一些
人说的,本人穷得屁股都从裤子里露出来了,就读那些免费书吧。实在感到过意不
去(guilty)了,就卖掉一条露屁股的破裤子从mises.org买本书资助他们一下。;-) - Re: 豆大师读过Ayn Rand的书吗?posted on 04/18/2009
切!切!豆大师那么维护自私自利,居然不读Ayn祖宗的书,她该是你的soulmate!主张individualism, check on Ayn rand institute. 祖奶奶的书居然不读,屁股转过来,50 鞭子!
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