![]() "Atlas Shrugged" serves as a page-turning enticement to Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, which is based on the idea that selfishness should be the guiding virtue for all mankind. The rest of the world - populated only by collectivists, politicians, and other assorted "takers" - quickly begins to fall apart without them. ![]() The mysterious hero of the book, John Galt, encourages captains of industry, inventors, and other heroes of capitalism to join him in a secret utopia hidden in Colorado called Galt's Gulch. "Atlas Shrugged," which was published in 1959 and came in second only after The Bible in a Library of Congress survey of influential books, is a 1,200-page sci-fi novel about what would happen if all the "makers" in the world were to go on strike. And like a lot of white males, "Atlas Shrugged" turned me into a huge jerk for a couple of months. Like a lot of white males, I read Ayn Rand's bestselling novel "Atlas Shrugged" when I was 18. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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