http://xeniainstitute.org/2009/03/10/news-for-march-10/ Transformation through Dialogue Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:57:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://xeniainstitute.org/2009/03/10/news-for-march-10/comment-page-1/#comment-901 Barbara Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:12:34 +0000 http://xeniainstitute.org/?p=2283#comment-901 I read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in high school and college and always thought that the idea following your bliss in doing creative work that benefited the world was a pretty good thing. And I still do. For all its many many many problems, I always thought that Atlas Shrugged was more damning of crony capitalism than it was of socialism. The socialism that Rand presented in that novel was cartoonish to the point of silliness, so I didn't even take it seriously. I read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in high school and college and always thought that the idea following your bliss in doing creative work that benefited the world was a pretty good thing. And I still do. For all its many many many problems, I always thought that Atlas Shrugged was more damning of crony capitalism than it was of socialism. The socialism that Rand presented in that novel was cartoonish to the point of silliness, so I didn’t even take it seriously.

]]> http://xeniainstitute.org/2009/03/10/news-for-march-10/comment-page-1/#comment-899 Clint Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:37:56 +0000 http://xeniainstitute.org/?p=2283#comment-899 The John Galt article is really nice! The John Galt article is really nice!

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