http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/ It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-9610 Ragged Clown » Blog Archive » Going Galt Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:05:51 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-9610 [...] right hand side of the interwebs is ablaze with threats to Go Galt - a reference to the theme of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in which all the professionals and entrepreneurs in America downed tools in protest at punitive [...] [...] right hand side of the interwebs is ablaze with threats to Go Galt – a reference to the theme of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in which all the professionals and entrepreneurs in America downed tools in protest at punitive [...]

]]> http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-9495 Ragged Clown » Blog Archive » Objectivism for a New Century Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:54:02 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-9495 [...] made my opinion clear in my review of Atlas Shrugged. It was good to hear the case for the other side but they didn’t quite shake my first [...] [...] made my opinion clear in my review of Atlas Shrugged. It was good to hear the case for the other side but they didn’t quite shake my first [...]

]]> http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-6721 Captain Groggy Swagger Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:13:33 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-6721 He does not. When you meet him, he is wearing a white suit and sporting a Vincent Price mustache. He hands you a golf club that he is holding and uses a subliminal keyword that they had programmed into you to force you to beat him to death with it. The reason? His Utopian society had destroyed itself with its own freedom. By allowing unfettered and unregulated exploration into scientific and medical experimentation, the people had ventured into genetic mutation that eventually lead to widespread madness. However, I suppose that high breasts and flat hips could also cause madness. He does not. When you meet him, he is wearing a white suit and sporting a Vincent Price mustache. He hands you a golf club that he is holding and uses a subliminal keyword that they had programmed into you to force you to beat him to death with it. The reason? His Utopian society had destroyed itself with its own freedom. By allowing unfettered and unregulated exploration into scientific and medical experimentation, the people had ventured into genetic mutation that eventually lead to widespread madness. However, I suppose that high breasts and flat hips could also cause madness.

]]> http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-6720 Kevin Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:38:03 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-6720 Does Andrew have high breasts and flat hips? Does Andrew have high breasts and flat hips?

]]> http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-6719 Captain Groggy Swagger Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:22:54 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-6719 The recent game "Bioshock" is based largely on Ayn Rand's writing, and most notably this book. In fact, one of the antagonists of the story is named Andrew Ryan. The recent game “Bioshock” is based largely on Ayn Rand’s writing, and most notably this book. In fact, one of the antagonists of the story is named Andrew Ryan.

]]> http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-6718 Matt Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:05:03 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-6718 Also: too bad you couldn't add rich text embellishments to "whatever", would have been very Anarcadia to show emphasis Also: too bad you couldn’t add rich text embellishments to “whatever”, would have been very Anarcadia to show emphasis

]]> http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-6716 Matt Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:01:28 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-6716 Thanks for saving me 40 hours of reading (listening) - unless I break my back or something and run out of Other Things to do. Thanks for saving me 40 hours of reading (listening) – unless I break my back or something and run out of Other Things to do.

]]> http://www.raggedclown.com/2008/03/30/atlas-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-6713 Kevin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:24:53 +0000 http://www.raggedclown.com/?p=581#comment-6713 [Fixed some typos and edited the sentence about Ayn Rand's topsy-turvy etc to make it clearer that I was describing the outcome she hopes for rather than the one in the book] [Fixed some typos and edited the sentence about Ayn Rand's topsy-turvy etc to make it clearer that I was describing the outcome she hopes for rather than the one in the book]

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