Book Review: Ayn Rand's One Dimensional World View

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1486025039152","data":"I sometimes wonder why Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is so popular with Indian readers, mostly among the class that would describe themselves to be above politics, completely missing the actual message of the book which is quite political and popular among the conservatives of the world. <\/p>Ayn Rand's world view is very shallow, the book itself is full of hypocrisy, one dimensional cardboard characters which could be easily be replaced by programmed robots and there would be no difference, even its plot is unnecessarily dragged out like a soap opera gone horribly wrong. It presents the concepts of libertarianism as Ayn Rand sees it and and it's so bad even actual libertarians among my friends are embarrassed at the mention of it. <\/p>In Rand's head, everyone who agrees with her is the specimen of humanity, tall, handsome, beautiful, rich and successful while the exact opposite of this is true for those who disagree with her views, the villains of the book as she writes it. Anyone who disagrees with her is a villain who are ugly as sin and take no pleasure in the things they do, but do it anyway. <\/p>The book follows a series of characters in a dystopian United States of America where characters, as she writes about them, can only be described as a bulls running towards a wall, they refuse to listen to reason, they are beautiful and everyone else is ugly, and their views are so pure they cannot be changed, a core tenant of Objectivism on which we will come back to later. I frankly do not know who is more annoying, the characters and their ridiculously selfish behavior, or Rand for writing a painfully long and dull book that could have easily been chopped in half. <\/p>Rand received negative reviews when she released her book for the first time in 1957, which probably has something to do with a 70 page long and boring speech about Objectivisim and how being selfish is awesome by Dagny Taggart in the book, but has since then picked up steam after Rand's Objectivism philosophy came to the fore a few years after writing the book. Today, there are still many people who think she has a point and recommend the book to their friends. <\/p>Obviously, as this review suggests, I do not think highly of Ayn Rand and her selfish and egoistical world view, but this is my personal view, and if you think you want to read it and form your own opinion about it, then I encourage you to go ahead and buy the book. <\/p>You can buy the book by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ktb1fJ\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>"}]

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