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History of post ‘Criticisms of Atlas Shrugged’
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Revision 6 · · View this (the most recent) version (v7)
Fix typo
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Rearden wants to show the contradiction inherent in unjust laws: you cannot 'com And: "The court, having been exposed, gets self-conscious because it doesn't want to be seen as a violent institution. It lets him off with a slap on the wrist." As a device, this works. But note that, in real life, judges would just laugh this sort of 'defense' out of court. Someone had commented –-thought+though the comment seems to have been removed since – that judges don't care about public perception, they care about the consistent application of the law. (*Some* judges *do* care about public perception but shouldn't.) It would have been better had Rand chosen an example that would translate to the real world.
Revision 5 · · View this version (v6)
Remove superfluous word
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ When James accuses her of not understanding, she responds that she does: Is this Cherryl's or Rand's mistake? I think it's Rand's mistake because it doesn't serve the plot in any way if it's Cherryl's mistake. This is different from, say, the writers of *The Cleveland Show* purposely having the character Cleveland say "magnus opus" (as opposed to the correct 'magn*um* opus') as a (highbrow) way of showing that he's not very educated. This serves-histo showcase his character. The mistake I explain above, on the other hand, does not showcase Cherryl's character. So I think it was an oversight on Rand's part: she wanted to make James Taggart less likable by having a character accuse him of never explaining what he means. She just didn't realize that this accusation is false. ---
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@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ As far as I can tell, Rand did live in accordance with the message of her book * Some of the people responding to the linked question say that things were never bad enough for Rand to go on strike herself – which then begs the question, *when would they be?* And if someone in the real world decided that having half his earnings stolen from him every month is incompatible with his self-esteem, would she hold it against him?-[Discussion 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href="http://www.veritula.com/#{:ideas {#uuid "3058723d-0da7-456e-b1ac-50a452ccae7c" {:body "You're conflating completely different things. There is no reason to believe she wanted anyone to emulate her fictional story. That isn't the same as saying her fiction shouldn't be taken seriously or that she didn't mean to convey a message.\n\nDavid Gudeman, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311680_103748", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "3058723d-0da7-456e-b1ac-50a452ccae7c", :parent-id #uuid "649c9f44-3a90-4fed-935d-8129e98cf963", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:55:56.596-00:00"}, #uuid "7b9e3984-24ca-4c3a-aff1-6104663dbfad" {:body "Her financial success was used against her by forcing her to share her money with others and to finance policies she might disagree with or that might harm her.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311562_103748", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "7b9e3984-24ca-4c3a-aff1-6104663dbfad", :parent-id #uuid "80710a50-209f-44ed-9d19-28ad6bac225d", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:38:21.359-00:00"}, #uuid "34e869ec-ef80-469a-85e3-05672487a548" {:body "The worst part of your comment is that it undercuts reason.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment312280_103774", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "34e869ec-ef80-469a-85e3-05672487a548", :parent-id #uuid "f36e443d-d593-4523-9d38-4cea9c8144f9", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-18T15:58:38.867-00:00"}, #uuid "d8a5198f-8a3f-447c-8cf5-241a27235b2f" {:body "She doesn't *explain* that, she *claims* it. You're continuing to use loaded words.\n\nbenrg, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/22304/benrg", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "d8a5198f-8a3f-447c-8cf5-241a27235b2f", :parent-id #uuid "b6bee6e6-71cd-456c-9890-9aaff65609ae", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:41:23.397-00:00"}, #uuid "ea34f034-b048-4bf5-b4fc-20e1089b657d" {:body "Since you haven't read Rand: I think her focus on the individual implies that she would have advocated striking (or 'quitting') for individuals as well. In Atlas Shrugged, business magnates quit *one by one*, and not by appealing to their collectivist sensibilities like a union leader might. Regardless, Rand did succeed in forming a collective around her ideas, yet AFAIK, neither did that collective ever strike nor did any of its members ever quit.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311543_103751", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "ea34f034-b048-4bf5-b4fc-20e1089b657d", :parent-id #uuid "21af39ab-50f6-47ad-895f-df920f910bf9", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:22:29.770-00:00"}, #uuid "8db43f7f-41d1-4092-9430-123a027914eb" {:body "\"'Going on strike' is a metaphor for not relying on others, not for asceticism.\"\n\nGalt's apartment, as I recall, is described as a shit hole. Dagny Taggart can't believe it when she sees it: Galt could be (and should be) insanely rich but chooses not to be.\n\nI don't know if that means AS is a call for asceticism, but it doesn't seem to stand in opposition to asceticism either.\n\nDennis Hackethal", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "8db43f7f-41d1-4092-9430-123a027914eb", :parent-id #uuid "efd29c99-0150-446e-bf59-f70a2f2d006b", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T13:39:40.473-00:00"}, #uuid "014424b3-660b-4c02-9b88-8bfd436bc6a6" {:body "\"What's the point in writing novels if no one reads them?\" Presumably you wouldn't write the novels in the first place. Or you could write them solely for your own pleasure. Galt did build the motor, after all, but kept it hidden. Atlas Shrugged says that acting in a way that harms yourself is immoral, so sharing your achievements knowing they will be used against you would be acting immorally. Regarding your idea that the strike is a metaphor: I hadn't thought of that. Will consider it.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311669_103774", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "014424b3-660b-4c02-9b88-8bfd436bc6a6", :parent-id #uuid "efd29c99-0150-446e-bf59-f70a2f2d006b", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T12:11:44.758-00:00"}, #uuid "95254961-6ed8-40ba-902d-92f0f6ee9353" {:body "Yes. Why would someone who wrote the Galt monologue *not* want to share their philosophy? Clearly, Rand approved of spreading her philosophy.\n\nJMac, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311639_103754", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "95254961-6ed8-40ba-902d-92f0f6ee9353", :parent-id #uuid "2340c2a9-7d14-40ee-b061-b0b336160e51", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:57:09.294-00:00"}, #uuid "b6bee6e6-71cd-456c-9890-9aaff65609ae" {:body "It's not true that people would like her if she had invented something that made the world better (and I think she did) – as she explains in Atlas Shrugged, lots of ppl *dislike* when people make the world better.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311562_103748", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "b6bee6e6-71cd-456c-9890-9aaff65609ae", :parent-id #uuid "80710a50-209f-44ed-9d19-28ad6bac225d", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:40:26.337-00:00"}, #uuid "21af39ab-50f6-47ad-895f-df920f910bf9" {:body "I haven't read Rand, but a 'strike' is a collective action, not an individual one.\n\nAnd for a strike to be successful, the collective has to control enough of the means of production that replacing the collective is more costly than giving in to their demands.\n\nSo Rand needed to get a group together first, and for that, she needed to share her philosophy.\n\ng s, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/103751/36371", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "21af39ab-50f6-47ad-895f-df920f910bf9", :parent-id #uuid "bdc4cd73-f15d-41a7-8723-d0b8ed038608", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:18:13.789-00:00"}, #uuid "8a5a8909-e522-46d8-b1f7-5f6b74a437a1" {:body "Do you have a refutation of her claim?\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311567_103748", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "8a5a8909-e522-46d8-b1f7-5f6b74a437a1", :parent-id #uuid "d8a5198f-8a3f-447c-8cf5-241a27235b2f", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:42:30.776-00:00"}, #uuid "65956691-1f00-4fa3-9ce8-5735e8c3e034" {:body "You seem to suggest that oism builds on libertarianism in some way, but I don't think that's true.\n\nRand disliked libertarians. As I recall, she accused them of plagiarizing her ideas, and she thought society would be impossible without government. Libertarians disagree with her that the government's proper role is that of supplying courts, national defense, and law enforcement. Libertarians don't ascribe *any* proper role to government other than non-existence.\n\nThere is some overlap between libertarianism and oism, and some libertarians like parts of oism (I am one such libertarian). I think an objectivist society would quickly turn into a libertarian one anyway since, by objectivist standards, the government wouldn't be allowed to use force to sustain its monopoly in the three mentioned areas. But what's lost in your comment is how much Rand defined her stance in opposition to libertarianism.\n\nI don't know why you're mentioning \"right-wing extremists\", but the term is used so loosely these days that I'm guessing it doesn't mean much.\n\nDennis Hackethal", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "65956691-1f00-4fa3-9ce8-5735e8c3e034", :parent-id #uuid "efd29c99-0150-446e-bf59-f70a2f2d006b", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T12:30:29.992-00:00"}, #uuid "05433994-c962-425c-88c3-1db186f3aa0e" {:body "You're using a stolen concept, ie an invalid argument, by establishing an absolute to argue against absolutes.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment312280_103774", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "05433994-c962-425c-88c3-1db186f3aa0e", :parent-id #uuid "f36e443d-d593-4523-9d38-4cea9c8144f9", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-18T15:57:50.610-00:00"}, #uuid "2340c2a9-7d14-40ee-b061-b0b336160e51" {:body "Rand has reframed the meaning of a 'strike'.\n\nA strike is when workers get together to force a work stoppage and gain leverage over a powerful industrialist to address and improve poor working conditions.\n\nRand, on the other hand, casts nation states as the industrialists and 'men of mind' as workers suffering poor working conditions. (In reality, the men of mind often are themselves industrialists in the original sense.)\n\nAtlas Shrugged asks how men of mind are supposed to thrive when weighed down by government oppression. Thus John Galt and the men of mind stop contributing or even sabotage their own industries, in hopes that this will force the government into compliance.\n\nWhat would happen to the *actual* laborers, the book does not answer, but a bunch of them would presumably die.\n\nViewed in this light, Rand herself would have felt no obligation to go on strike herself. She'd see herself more in John Galt's position, ie promoting and organizing the strike. To do that, it's impossible to remove yourself entirely from society.\n\nThere would be no hypocrisy here even if her portrayal of government oppression were realistic. She would have approved of our current \"hyper-capitalist fever-dream\".\n\nTed Wrigley, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/103754/36371", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "2340c2a9-7d14-40ee-b061-b0b336160e51", :parent-id #uuid "bdc4cd73-f15d-41a7-8723-d0b8ed038608", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:44:53.830-00:00"}, #uuid "087bac8a-e72a-4d39-b1d4-385915439567" {:body "That people should strike wasn't the message of the book. Even taking it as a suggestion for how productive people could respond to the problems of society would be too strong since there is no reason to think Rand thought such an approach would improve the real world.\n\nDavid Gudeman, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311580_103748", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "087bac8a-e72a-4d39-b1d4-385915439567", :parent-id #uuid "bdc4cd73-f15d-41a7-8723-d0b8ed038608", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:52:37.573-00:00"}, #uuid "32fed288-1195-4925-a429-241fe6350218" {:body "It sounds like you're saying *all* reason is defeasible. That doesn't sound right to me. All reason is *fallible*, sure – but, contra defeasibility, people do arrive at valid deductions sometimes.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311678_103774", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "32fed288-1195-4925-a429-241fe6350218", :parent-id #uuid "f36e443d-d593-4523-9d38-4cea9c8144f9", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T12:20:59.764-00:00"}, #uuid "597008aa-5fe3-41d6-825d-2e77da256c44" {:body "\"If acting in a way that harms yourself is immoral, then the opportunity cost of not sharing your achievements knowing they won't be used to benefit you would be acting immorally also.\" (Link removed.) There is opportunity cost here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost); context matters, ethics are often situational (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_ethics).\n\nJ D, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/40730/j-d", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "597008aa-5fe3-41d6-825d-2e77da256c44", :parent-id #uuid "014424b3-660b-4c02-9b88-8bfd436bc6a6", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T12:16:32.007-00:00"}, #uuid "caa0f5a8-1ea9-49d5-b8d5-af9963413bc8" {:body "Rand wasn't really a philosopher but a political commentator who opposed political enemies such as communists.\n\nShe may have written Atlas Shrugged to try to predict and prevent the kind of collapse she describes.\n\nThe world today is one of plutocratic feudalism, with a select few being disproportionately powerful due to market capitalism, which she would have liked.\n\nPaul Ross, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/103750/36371 (The implication being that there would have been no reason for Rand to strike.)", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "caa0f5a8-1ea9-49d5-b8d5-af9963413bc8", :parent-id #uuid "bdc4cd73-f15d-41a7-8723-d0b8ed038608", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:28:52.164-00:00"}, #uuid "80dca146-8e87-44a0-a4c6-40c5bf148712" {:body "This is an interesting problem readers of AS face when it comes to the question of what lessons from AS to apply to one's own life and how: specifically, whether one should 'quit'. I guess it involves weighing the cost of quitting against the cost of not quitting, each cost being a result of one's hierarchy of values.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311677_103 ---
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@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ As far as I can tell, Rand did live in accordance with the message of her book * Some of the people responding to the linked question say that things were never bad enough for Rand to go on strike herself – which then begs the question, *when would they be?* And if someone in the real world decided that having half his earnings stolen from him every month is incompatible with his self-esteem, would she hold it against him? +[Discussion tree](http://www.veritula.com/#{:ideas {#uuid "3058723d-0da7-456e-b1ac-50a452ccae7c" {:body "You're conflating completely different things. There is no reason to believe she wanted anyone to emulate her fictional story. That isn't the same as saying her fiction shouldn't be taken seriously or that she didn't mean to convey a message.\n\nDavid Gudeman, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311680_103748", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "3058723d-0da7-456e-b1ac-50a452ccae7c", :parent-id #uuid "649c9f44-3a90-4fed-935d-8129e98cf963", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:55:56.596-00:00"}, #uuid "7b9e3984-24ca-4c3a-aff1-6104663dbfad" {:body "Her financial success was used against her by forcing her to share her money with others and to finance policies she might disagree with or that might harm her.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311562_103748", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "7b9e3984-24ca-4c3a-aff1-6104663dbfad", :parent-id #uuid "80710a50-209f-44ed-9d19-28ad6bac225d", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:38:21.359-00:00"}, #uuid "34e869ec-ef80-469a-85e3-05672487a548" {:body "The worst part of your comment is that it undercuts reason.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment312280_103774", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "34e869ec-ef80-469a-85e3-05672487a548", :parent-id #uuid "f36e443d-d593-4523-9d38-4cea9c8144f9", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-18T15:58:38.867-00:00"}, #uuid "d8a5198f-8a3f-447c-8cf5-241a27235b2f" {:body "She doesn't *explain* that, she *claims* it. You're continuing to use loaded words.\n\nbenrg, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/22304/benrg", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "d8a5198f-8a3f-447c-8cf5-241a27235b2f", :parent-id #uuid "b6bee6e6-71cd-456c-9890-9aaff65609ae", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:41:23.397-00:00"}, #uuid "ea34f034-b048-4bf5-b4fc-20e1089b657d" {:body "Since you haven't read Rand: I think her focus on the individual implies that she would have advocated striking (or 'quitting') for individuals as well. In Atlas Shrugged, business magnates quit *one by one*, and not by appealing to their collectivist sensibilities like a union leader might. Regardless, Rand did succeed in forming a collective around her ideas, yet AFAIK, neither did that collective ever strike nor did any of its members ever quit.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311543_103751", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "ea34f034-b048-4bf5-b4fc-20e1089b657d", :parent-id #uuid "21af39ab-50f6-47ad-895f-df920f910bf9", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:22:29.770-00:00"}, #uuid "8db43f7f-41d1-4092-9430-123a027914eb" {:body "\"'Going on strike' is a metaphor for not relying on others, not for asceticism.\"\n\nGalt's apartment, as I recall, is described as a shit hole. Dagny Taggart can't believe it when she sees it: Galt could be (and should be) insanely rich but chooses not to be.\n\nI don't know if that means AS is a call for asceticism, but it doesn't seem to stand in opposition to asceticism either.\n\nDennis Hackethal", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "8db43f7f-41d1-4092-9430-123a027914eb", :parent-id #uuid "efd29c99-0150-446e-bf59-f70a2f2d006b", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T13:39:40.473-00:00"}, #uuid "014424b3-660b-4c02-9b88-8bfd436bc6a6" {:body "\"What's the point in writing novels if no one reads them?\" Presumably you wouldn't write the novels in the first place. Or you could write them solely for your own pleasure. Galt did build the motor, after all, but kept it hidden. Atlas Shrugged says that acting in a way that harms yourself is immoral, so sharing your achievements knowing they will be used against you would be acting immorally. Regarding your idea that the strike is a metaphor: I hadn't thought of that. Will consider it.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311669_103774", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "014424b3-660b-4c02-9b88-8bfd436bc6a6", :parent-id #uuid "efd29c99-0150-446e-bf59-f70a2f2d006b", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T12:11:44.758-00:00"}, #uuid "95254961-6ed8-40ba-902d-92f0f6ee9353" {:body "Yes. Why would someone who wrote the Galt monologue *not* want to share their philosophy? Clearly, Rand approved of spreading her philosophy.\n\nJMac, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311639_103754", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "95254961-6ed8-40ba-902d-92f0f6ee9353", :parent-id #uuid "2340c2a9-7d14-40ee-b061-b0b336160e51", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:57:09.294-00:00"}, #uuid "b6bee6e6-71cd-456c-9890-9aaff65609ae" {:body "It's not true that people would like her if she had invented something that made the world better (and I think she did) – as she explains in Atlas Shrugged, lots of ppl *dislike* when people make the world better.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311562_103748", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "b6bee6e6-71cd-456c-9890-9aaff65609ae", :parent-id #uuid "80710a50-209f-44ed-9d19-28ad6bac225d", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:40:26.337-00:00"}, #uuid "21af39ab-50f6-47ad-895f-df920f910bf9" {:body "I haven't read Rand, but a 'strike' is a collective action, not an individual one.\n\nAnd for a strike to be successful, the collective has to control enough of the means of production that replacing the collective is more costly than giving in to their demands.\n\nSo Rand needed to get a group together first, and for that, she needed to share her philosophy.\n\ng s, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/103751/36371", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "21af39ab-50f6-47ad-895f-df920f910bf9", :parent-id #uuid "bdc4cd73-f15d-41a7-8723-d0b8ed038608", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:18:13.789-00:00"}, #uuid "8a5a8909-e522-46d8-b1f7-5f6b74a437a1" {:body "Do you have a refutation of her claim?\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment311567_103748", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "8a5a8909-e522-46d8-b1f7-5f6b74a437a1", :parent-id #uuid "d8a5198f-8a3f-447c-8cf5-241a27235b2f", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T10:42:30.776-00:00"}, #uuid "65956691-1f00-4fa3-9ce8-5735e8c3e034" {:body "You seem to suggest that oism builds on libertarianism in some way, but I don't think that's true.\n\nRand disliked libertarians. As I recall, she accused them of plagiarizing her ideas, and she thought society would be impossible without government. Libertarians disagree with her that the government's proper role is that of supplying courts, national defense, and law enforcement. Libertarians don't ascribe *any* proper role to government other than non-existence.\n\nThere is some overlap between libertarianism and oism, and some libertarians like parts of oism (I am one such libertarian). I think an objectivist society would quickly turn into a libertarian one anyway since, by objectivist standards, the government wouldn't be allowed to use force to sustain its monopoly in the three mentioned areas. But what's lost in your comment is how much Rand defined her stance in opposition to libertarianism.\n\nI don't know why you're mentioning \"right-wing extremists\", but the term is used so loosely these days that I'm guessing it doesn't mean much.\n\nDennis Hackethal", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "65956691-1f00-4fa3-9ce8-5735e8c3e034", :parent-id #uuid "efd29c99-0150-446e-bf59-f70a2f2d006b", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T12:30:29.992-00:00"}, #uuid "05433994-c962-425c-88c3-1db186f3aa0e" {:body "You're using a stolen concept, ie an invalid argument, by establishing an absolute to argue against absolutes.\n\nDennis Hackethal, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike#comment312280_103774", :refutation? true, :id #uuid "05433994-c962-425c-88c3-1db186f3aa0e", :parent-id #uuid "f36e443d-d593-4523-9d38-4cea9c8144f9", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-18T15:57:50.610-00:00"}, #uuid "2340c2a9-7d14-40ee-b061-b0b336160e51" {:body "Rand has reframed the meaning of a 'strike'.\n\nA strike is when workers get together to force a work stoppage and gain leverage over a powerful industrialist to address and improve poor working conditions.\n\nRand, on the other hand, casts nation states as the industrialists and 'men of mind' as workers suffering poor working conditions. (In reality, the men of mind often are themselves industrialists in the original sense.)\n\nAtlas Shrugged asks how men of mind are supposed to thrive when weighed down by government oppression. Thus John Galt and the men of mind stop contributing or even sabotage their own industries, in hopes that this will force the government into compliance.\n\nWhat would happen to the *actual* laborers, the book does not answer, but a bunch of them would presumably die.\n\nViewed in this light, Rand herself would have felt no obligation to go on strike herself. She'd see herself more in John Galt's position, ie promoting and organizing the strike. To do that, it's impossible to remove yourself entirely from society.\n\nThere would be no hypocrisy here even if her portrayal of government oppression were realistic. She would have approved of our current \"hyper-capitalist fever-dream\".\n\nTed Wrigley, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/103754/36371", :refutation? false, :id #uuid "2340c2a9-7d14-40ee-b061-b0b336160e51", :parent-id #uuid "bdc4cd73-f15d-41a7-8723-d0b8ed038608", :timestamp #inst "2023-10-15T11:44:53.830-00:00"}, #uuid "087bac8a-e72a-4d39-b1d4-38591 --- AFAIK, no one, including Rand and other objectivists, has ever tried to build something like Galt's gulch – a place where the best people can go to associate and recharge, and to escape government oppression. Why not? Isn't that hypocritical, too?
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ When James accuses her of not understanding, she responds that she does: Is this Cherryl's or Rand's mistake? I think it's Rand's mistake because it doesn't serve the plot in any way if it's Cherryl's mistake. This is different from, say, the writers of *The Cleveland Show* purposely having the character Cleveland say "magnus opus" (as opposed to the correct 'magn*um* opus') as a-(high-brow)+(highbrow) way of showing that he's not very educated. This serves his to showcase his character. The mistake I explain above, on the other hand, does not showcase Cherryl's character. So I think it was an oversight on Rand's part: she wanted to make James Taggart less likable by having a character accuse him of never explaining what he means. She just didn't realize that this accusation is false. --- @@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ Similarly, a bit later, Dagny says (emphasis added): > % source: p. 889 > [Y]ou *never* hear that accusation in defense of innocence, but *always* in defense of guilt. You *never* hear it said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you *always* hear it said by a rotter [...].-“Well, observe that you never hear that accusation in defense of innocence, but always in defense of guilt. You never hear it said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you always hear it said by a rotterNo good person has *ever* accused unjust people of having no heart? That's hard to believe. For example, victims of crimes accuse judges or juries who falsely exonerate defendants of having no heart *because* they fail to serve justice. ---
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# Criticisms of *Atlas Shrugged* Here are some criticisms of Ayn Rand's book *Atlas Shrugged*. First, I think I've found a mistake. The antagonist James Taggart's wife, Cherryl Brooks, says to the protagonist, Dagny Taggart, who is James's sister: > % source: Rand, Ayn. *Atlas Shrugged* (p. 889). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. > “You know, Miss Tag—Dagny,” she said softly, in wonder, “you’re not as I expected you to be at all. . . . They, Jim and his friends, they said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.” > “But it’s true, Cherryl. I *am*, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?” > “No. They never do. They only sneer at me when I ask them what they mean by anything . . . about anything. What did they mean about you?” > “Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. [...]” While it is true James treats Cherryl poorly in general, her claim that James and his friends "never" explain "what they mean by anything" is a lie. Only a few pages before (p. 884), James Taggart *does* explain to her what he means. His explanation even matches his sister's (the part about justice). Cherryl asks him: > “Do you want . . . love . . . to be . . . causeless?” His response: > “[...] What’s the generosity of loving a man for his virtues? What do you give him? Nothing. It’s no more than cold justice. No more than he’s earned.” When James accuses her of not understanding, she responds that she does: > “Oh, you don’t understand!” > “Yes, Jim, I do. [...]” Is this Cherryl's or Rand's mistake? I think it's Rand's mistake because it doesn't serve the plot in any way if it's Cherryl's mistake. This is different from, say, the writers of *The Cleveland Show* purposely having the character Cleveland say "magnus opus" (as opposed to the correct 'magn*um* opus') as a (high-brow) way of showing that he's not very educated. This serves his to showcase his character. The mistake I explain above, on the other hand, does not showcase Cherryl's character. So I think it was an oversight on Rand's part: she wanted to make James Taggart less likable by having a character accuse him of never explaining what he means. She just didn't realize that this accusation is false. --- By the way, in regards to when Dagny says (emphasis added): > “*Whenever anyone* accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. [...]” Saying that this applies to anyone anytime is saying too much. For example, people accuse animal abusers of being unfeeling, and they're not saying animal abusers are just. It would be better to say 'when someone is accused of being ‘unfeeling’, the accuser *usually* or *often* means that that person is just'. --- Similarly, a bit later, Dagny says (emphasis added): > % source: p. 889 > [Y]ou *never* hear that accusation in defense of innocence, but *always* in defense of guilt. You *never* hear it said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you *always* hear it said by a rotter [...]. “Well, observe that you never hear that accusation in defense of innocence, but always in defense of guilt. You never hear it said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you always hear it said by a rotter No good person has *ever* accused unjust people of having no heart? That's hard to believe. For example, victims of crimes accuse judges or juries who falsely exonerate defendants of having no heart *because* they fail to serve justice. --- > % source: p. 305 > [H]e wondered only what was the point of uttering it. Shouldn't the word order be 'what the point of uttering it was'? --- Character John Galt says to comply. But then he doesn't comply when they're torturing him (he doesn't agree to manage the economy). Why not? Isn't he being hypocritical? --- Rand thinks politicians are parasitic dunces, yet she wants them in charge of the military, the police, and the courts. Why would she want society to depend on idiots? --- Character Hank Rearden is brought to trial for breaking a law. He refuses to volunteer a defense. The judge then says: > % source: p. 479 > “But the law compels you to volunteer a defense!” I'm not a lawyer, but I'm told that courts [don't compel people to volunteer a defense](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/102857/has-anyone-tried-the-rearden-defense#comment307399_102857). The court would record that no plea was given and assign a plea of not guilty. Rearden wants to show the contradiction inherent in unjust laws: you cannot 'compel someone to volunteer' anything. As I wrote in the question that's on the page linked above, "I believe the core concept that is being invoked here is that of the [*sanction of the victim*](http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sanction_of_the_victim.html). Unjust laws rely on this sanction to work, and so not giving one's sanction renders them impotent. The 'fair share' law for which Rearden is being tried is one such unjust law." And: "The court, having been exposed, gets self-conscious because it doesn't want to be seen as a violent institution. It lets him off with a slap on the wrist." As a device, this works. But note that, in real life, judges would just laugh this sort of 'defense' out of court. Someone had commented – thought the comment seems to have been removed since – that judges don't care about public perception, they care about the consistent application of the law. (*Some* judges *do* care about public perception but shouldn't.) It would have been better had Rand chosen an example that would translate to the real world. --- One of the central themes of the book is that productive people should go on strike because their achievements will just be used against them. I don't think Ayn Rand ever went on strike. [Why not?](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/103748/why-didnt-ayn-rand-go-on-strike) Does that make her a hypocrite? As far as I can tell, Rand did live in accordance with the message of her book *The Fountainhead*. She never compromised on her values, didn't live a secondhanded life. So why not live in accordance with the message of *Atlas Shrugged* – why not shrug? Some of the people responding to the linked question say that things were never bad enough for Rand to go on strike herself – which then begs the question, *when would they be?* And if someone in the real world decided that having half his earnings stolen from him every month is incompatible with his self-esteem, would she hold it against him? --- AFAIK, no one, including Rand and other objectivists, has ever tried to build something like Galt's gulch – a place where the best people can go to associate and recharge, and to escape government oppression. Why not? Isn't that hypocritical, too? --- John Galt says there are no laws and no rules in his gulch. But that isn't true: people have to swear an oath to get in. There's also the rule of not faking reality in any way. As with Cherryl Brooks above, this strikes me as Rand's mistake, not Galt's, as it wouldn't serve the plot in any way if it were Galt's mistake. --- Overall, I thought the book was too long and sometimes repetitive (eg there are too many instances of people being emotionally repressed). It probably could have been shortened significantly and still have gotten the same ideas across. But I liked it and I recommend it, though people should read Rand's non-fiction first because it's easier to understand her philosophy that way; her non-fiction is more explicit. For example, I didn't understand some of the passages about psychologizing in *Atlas Shrugged* until I read Rand's essay 'The Psychology of Psychologizing' in her book *The Voice of Reason* where she goes over those passages (providing enough context for them to make sense without having read *Atlas Shrugged* first). I did read *The Virtue of Selfishness* before reading *Atlas Shrugged* and I think it helped because VoS lays out core concepts explicitly and then AS applies them through characters and their actions.