#Atlas Shrugged

[typhlonectes]

[nando161mando]

[geekysteven]

[penny-anna]

“There's something,” she said, running her hands once again up and down Lillian's thighs, “erotic, about a train. Don't you think?” “Enlighten me,” said Lillian, who had yet to lose her poise. “The strength of the steel,” said Dagny. “All the parts of the engine, moving in perfect synchronicity – the powerful onward thrust across the country – do you see it?” “I think,” said Lillian. “You need a man in your life.”

🚨🚨🚨🚨I WROTE THIS FOR THE BIT. I HAVE NOT READ ATLAS SHRUGGED. DO NOT BEAT ME WITH HAMMERS. 🚨🚨🚨🚨

so one of my friends has read Atlas Shrugged due to (best as I can tell) morbid fascination and as she likes to torture us with awful movies she made us sit through parts I and II. this in turn led to a conversation about Atlas Shrugged fanfiction which in turn led to this:

Friend who reads f/f content exclusively: what is the top lesbian pairing?

Friend who is morbidly obsessed with Atlas Shrugged: there's only one woman in Atlas Shrugged. there's no lesbian content.

Friend who reads f/f content exclusively: that's not true. what about that woman who gave her the bracelet?

Me, in a fit of madness: we could make there be lesbian Atlas Shrugged fanfiction

anyway then they peer pressured me into writing Atlas Shrugged toxic yuri. So here it is!!

[sea-salted-wolverine]

As apparently one of the few people alive who has read the entirety of atlas shrugged, and the thing is no matter how tweaked people who haven't read it think it is, they're missing the vibes.

I chipped my nail polish today and there's some irony that the scene where a guy decided his marriage wasn't worth it because his wife wasn't the absolute image of perfection because of her chipped nail, lives rent free in my head. There's the bit where a couple of kids get blown up in a tunnel explosion and that's fine because their mother doesn't teach them to venerate capitalism. Then y'know, there's the bit where all the wealthy industrialists flee to the midst of the mountains where they can mine and extract resources and produce, because producing value is the most sacred thing any human being can do, and they, uh, just forgot, the entire narrative full on forgot, who they would be producing that for. Then the entire book caps off with an ending that so fully undermines its own thesis it feels like parody.

Its normal to not read 1000 pages of dense terrible philosophical text disguised as a noir. But if you haven't read the whole thing, I guarantee you are underestimating how convoluted and flat dumb that book can be.

[selins-drawings]

Hello!!! I passed all of my exams :) wooohooooo

I got 91/100 for Russian, 5/5 for maths, 94/100 for social studies and 98/100 for English

I guess, I know my second language better than my native language lmao what can I say

Been reading “Atlas shrugged” and had to sketch these two cuz I love ‘em. Esp Hank, he’s such a cutie, honestly, he deserves more than anybody can give him

Enjoy :з

[opspro2005]

In the last three weeks, I've reread these classics. If you haven't read them, I highly recommend that you do. I'd start with Animal Farm, then 1984, and finish with Atlas Shrugged. The similarities between these books, and the world we have in 2024 is astounding.

These dystopian works are rapidly becoming our future unless we fight back. The 2nd American Revolution is going to take a hell of a lot more participation than the 3% from the first one in 1776. 🇺🇸🔫

[wedgeantill]

…trying to stay alive desperately and very badly.

Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) dir. Paul Johansson

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[resisteverything]

Im sure everyone gets this but playing Bioshock I can’t help but notice what a hypocrite Andrew Ryan is. “Is not a man entitled to the sweat of his brow?” yeah sure buddy, hey quick question how do you make your money? Did you work so hard that you naturally earned a billion dollars in cash from your own hard labor? Did you personally build everything you sell? Did you build the rapture? Who gets most of the profits from these buildings existing, their builders or you? Clearly you because you’re still rich even after the entire rapture fell apart and the people under you were left to fight each other for scraps.

[kaleidoscopr]

Katya Goncharov x Lillian Rearden x Katherine Smith would be the toxic trouple of all time

[reasonandempathy]

[danbensen]

This is the most distance I’ve seen between a book’s reputation and its content. At best, people talk about Atlas Shrugged like it’s a shoddy story straining under its philosophical burdens, but when I read it, I saw a Russian science fiction novel.

In one scene, a group of government functionaries on a train need to be in California by midnight. Because most of the rail line’s employees were hired for political reasons, all rail lines but one are closed and there is no functioning diesel locomotive. The management, also political, is less concerned about fixing these problems than passing the blame, so the decision of what to do is finally made by a mid-level manager. This manager had a brother who killed himself after his workplace was nationalized by the People, and the news of this suicide was suppressed so as not to damage the People’s morale. Now, the manager orders that the a coal-burning locomotive should pull the train through a tunnel in the Rocky Mountains, a solution that will asphyxiate all its passengers but get their corpses to San Jose on time. “And?” the manager thinks to himself, “who is on that train? I bet it's People.”

I’m going to have to write a longer review of this book.

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