tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715711610648154390.post6616569974990457577..comments2024-03-27T03:16:36.721-04:00Comments on Checkpoint Telstar: Atlas Sucked: Atlas Shrugged Part One (2011)Tim Lehnererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410878013331168436noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715711610648154390.post-34065883474598830792015-04-23T07:40:32.632-04:002015-04-23T07:40:32.632-04:00The politics of the novel and movie would have to ...The politics of the novel and movie would have to clarify by orders of magnitude in order to just be incoherent. It's literally "whatever the author thinks is the right thing to do is the right thing to do", notable especially when different characters do the same thing. Dagny telling a train to go through a danger signal works out fine because she is the hero; a moocher doing the same thing causes disastrous loss of life because the author said so.<br /><br />The movies left all the pro-rapist commentary from Rand out, for which I am absurdly grateful.Tim Lehnererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410878013331168436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715711610648154390.post-37145384731804396942015-04-22T13:53:54.357-04:002015-04-22T13:53:54.357-04:00Good stuff, but ouch, that font.
It was just the ...Good stuff, but ouch, that font.<br /><br />It was just the other day that it was occurring to me that Howard Roark blowing up his own building actually had no philosophical justification at all, even within libertarianism or objectivism -- he was just acting childish and butthurt, and that was justification enough. I haven't read Shrugged but it sounds like you've reached a similar conclusion about the Galtian sabotage movement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715711610648154390.post-53716480418832302252015-04-17T10:54:38.308-04:002015-04-17T10:54:38.308-04:00Yes, although the mistrust was also a symptom of t...Yes, although the mistrust was also a symptom of the moochers and looters being too jealous of Rearden's awesomeness to trust the metal. It gets pretty ridiculous what the characters are capable of; Dagny's also a jet pilot in addition to being the sole force running Taggart Transcontinental.Tim Lehnererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410878013331168436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715711610648154390.post-38889888621275529392015-04-17T09:26:23.363-04:002015-04-17T09:26:23.363-04:00I think I see...the safety and efficacy of the the...I think I see...the safety and efficacy of the the magic-metal rail lines was established by the simple fact that Rearden and Dagny produced them. Testing would have been redundant and wasteful. The simple, dumb mistrust with which they were met was simply an obstacle they had to overcome en route to the embiggening and betterment of Amurica. Does that sum it up?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09334013610288458384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715711610648154390.post-57012948520353435802015-04-16T20:50:08.573-04:002015-04-16T20:50:08.573-04:00Dennis Moore was a Monty Python sketch about a hig...Dennis Moore was a Monty Python sketch about a highwayman who stole flowers from the rich to give to the poor (who would have rather had cash), and who then got confused and stole from the poor to give to the rich. His theme song turned out to be a parody of the Robin Hood theme song that was produced by Joe Meek, which I had no idea about until I was in my mid thirties.<br /><br />Anything that the right kind of capitalist does in an Ayn Rand book is automatically and always completely the right thing to do; they never make mistakes. So because Hank Rearden is one of her Men of Vision(tm), he can come up with an alloy that is lighter, stronger and more durable than steel without having to worry about things like whether or not it'll support the weight of a train. If it was a government scientist who invented State Science Metal the rails would vibrate apart and the bridge would collapse, killing hundreds. But Rearden is just awesome at everything, so his metal is exactly as perfect as it can be.Tim Lehnererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410878013331168436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715711610648154390.post-23758965775945176852015-04-16T16:23:51.969-04:002015-04-16T16:23:51.969-04:00Who is Jon Galt? I mean, Dennis Moore? The inter...Who is Jon Galt? I mean, Dennis Moore? The internet is full of Dennis Moores and the first two I looked at don't make sense.<br /><br />My first car was a '79 Ford Pinto. It almost never exploded. True story.<br /><br />Excellent sneakylinks. You win the internet today.<br /><br />I CANNOT picture Taylor Schilling as a titan of industry. She looks like a sleepy bubblegum pop star.<br /><br />Who the HELL would manufacture a metric fuck ton of new metal without knowing everything there is to know about it first, and what idiot would then lay a complete line's worth of rail with this mystery metal without having run some trains over it first? This plot annoys me.<br /><br />Why the HELL did Zero Effect never become a series?? Hollywood annoys me.<br /><br />“Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.” -- Rex StoutAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09334013610288458384noreply@blogger.com