Atlas Shrugged

it's fascinating to see.

In conclusion, this is why I'm reading Atlas Shrugged.

Do you know that book? Have you heard about it? Yes, the

Libertarian Bible.

That's where the problem arises.

But this book has been so loved and it's been so captured by people rich people and people who have made it to the top that it did make me realize that kind of maybe that's kind of where we went astray where previously people maybe clung on to the Bible which don't get me wrong has got its own problems but at least kind of advocated for you know what is it like it's easier for a poor man to get to heaven than it is for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle or something like that we used to kind of believe that giving back and being altruistic was a good property Whereas, according to Anne Rand, I think, and I could be misquoting her here, it's a very...

She's the writer of Atlas Shrugged.

It's a very, very bad thing to be altruistic.

and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.

That is from Awn Rand in her tome, Atlas Shrugged.

It's from 1957.

And I slogged through that book a long time ago because Rush Limbaugh said so.

It took me an entire summer because it's so... big but it's also meaty and so you kind of need to read a couple of maybe less than a couple of chapters at a time with the highlighter and that's what because there were some pages at the end that just fell out of my book because i'm like oh my word okay anywho i

don't know let us know

have you read atlas shrugged and would you be interested in maybe taking a year and reading it together Maybe we should be less, like, let's read it in a month.

But what if we took time and read it? I don't know.

Instead of just looking at the dumbest social media app that you can physically find, instead of what you might wanna do is pick the hardest to read book that you can find.

Go pick up James Joyce Ulysses or something like that that will challenge you or the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer or Atlas Shrugged or just anything that is just long and slow going and learn to build your attention span.

Look, I remember back being in my mid 20s and trying to read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and I remember myself sitting there and I thought, I feel like I need to take a nap.

And then I was like, how come every time I pick up Atlas Shrugged or Fountainhead, I feel like I need to take a nap.

I don't normally need to take, I haven't taken a nap in five years.

Why do I feel like I need to take a nap? Oh, because my brain wants to derp, that's why.