I haven't seen the movie, but I just finished reading the book. I have to say that this seems to me to be a case of the right going too far. Selfishness carried to the same extremes as communism and with about the same result.
I've said in other contexts that the free market system only works if it is balanced by Christian values and the book has not changed my mind on that point. I wonder if the movie would. I rather doubt it.
It certainly cannot change my understanding of human nature which is skimmed over in the book with barely a nod. (Although, upon having objected to this point in the book, I was scolded by a follwer of Ms. Rand's philosophy that 1.) it was only a literary device and 2.)surely the nature of man would change if the world were the way Ms. Rand's philosophy encourages.
Needless to say, I was less than convinced. The bible says "jeaalousy is the rage of a man" and, in my experience, that doesn't change, no matter how empowered or objective the man.
I don't expect the rest of the nature of man to change any time soon, so I'll be sticking with my own philosophy, thanks. Not really planning to see the movie aas I found the book so distasteful. (The reviewer was spot on about Ms. Rand using it as a justification for her own bad behavior in real life.)
I get the overall point of the book, but I am unwilling to abandon God's work and word to follow the philosophy espoused through it.
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I haven't seen the movie, but I just finished reading the book. I have to say that this seems to me to be a case of the right going too far. Selfishness carried to the same extremes as communism and with about the same result.
I've said in other contexts that the free market system only works if it is balanced by Christian values and the book has not changed my mind on that point. I wonder if the movie would. I rather doubt it.
It certainly cannot change my understanding of human nature which is skimmed over in the book with barely a nod. (Although, upon having objected to this point in the book, I was scolded by a follwer of Ms. Rand's philosophy that 1.) it was only a literary device and 2.)surely the nature of man would change if the world were the way Ms. Rand's philosophy encourages.
Needless to say, I was less than convinced. The bible says "jeaalousy is the rage of a man" and, in my experience, that doesn't change, no matter how empowered or objective the man.
I don't expect the rest of the nature of man to change any time soon, so I'll be sticking with my own philosophy, thanks. Not really planning to see the movie aas I found the book so distasteful. (The reviewer was spot on about Ms. Rand using it as a justification for her own bad behavior in real life.)
I get the overall point of the book, but I am unwilling to abandon God's work and word to follow the philosophy espoused through it.
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