Brain food

I feel gratitude to carry Ayn Rand's work in my brain. it is supremely better for it 🤍

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Thought provoking

The narration is superb.. The book itself is a classic. Whoever is John Galt, I loved Hank Reardon the most

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Epic, Masterpiece and brilliant narration

Pick up, have patience and enjoy the 64 hour marathon majestic book come to life.

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Welcome to a world of Prosperity

Magnificent book.
Eye opening speeches of Characters.
Change the way you see economy.
Highly recommended.

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Life changing book

This book is more relevant in present day situations. Must read or listen book for everyone on planet earth❤️

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Words of gold.

This is the fifth time I went through the novel. First time in audio format. It was a liberating experience given by the fact that I could listen while doing other things.

As for the novel, no words would do justice to the greatness. The characters, the narrative, the visual rendering, everything about this novel is in depth, and at the same time, succinct.

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Excellent . simply superb . what a wonderful audio

Excellent . simply superb . what a wonderful audio
Excellent . simply superb . what a wonderful audio
Excellent . simply superb . what a wonderful audio
Excellent . simply superb . what a wonderful audio

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Capitalism vs Communism, fantastically written!!!

“Who is John Galt”.
Atlas Shrugged is a remarkable novel by Ayn Rand and is said to be her last one. After that, she devoted herself to essays and short articles type writings to convey her philosophy. Atlas Shrugged is an epic story of capitalism and socialism or I would rather correctly put it as Ayn’s preaching of her convictions which she claimed to live by herself.
This novel is about innovators, creators, and producers and how they suffer from bureaucratic-political systems that try to chokehold their creativity for the sham of the general public’s welfare (and in reality, self-profiteering). What will happen if this life-affirming few innovators and thinkers of society would go on strike. What if they deliberately stop thinking, stop innovating, and stop carrying worlds on their shoulders. Probably the results turn out to be total disasters and chaos.
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
Ayn Rand convinces the readers that if these innovators are succumbed to unjust systems and are entangled in harsh regulatory rules made by bureaucrats for political gain. These lawmakers suited up, elected or appointed, sitting in the political arena and defining good and evil for the masses, what kind of justification do they have? how would the world look like when looters take control of public offices, in my opinion, the result will be very bleak and devastating, which can be judged from her following excerpts?
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right, and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
In the end, Ayn convinced the readers that money itself is not evil, genuine wealth creation is not evil, there is nothing wrong to do business for the sole purpose of profits if there are free markets and the lucid flow of demand/supply without institutionalized hindrance, society would prosper.
“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Ayn will leave you to doorstep this oath which you will change your thought process, ethics, and overall moral of society.
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

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Culmination of Philosophy and novel

60+ hrs feels like no time to finish this intriguing Great novel. Ayn Rand's best.

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absolutely fantastic

This is a must read. Audiobook version is superb. Amazing narration. Lots of lessons that can be learnt and Applied. After all, WHO IS JON GAULT

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