![]() ![]() ![]() This is a more even keeled Atlas Shrugged without the pontificating, swapping out trains for a space program and despair for optimism. But Firestar shares in enough of Atlas Shrugged‘s atmosphere and premise to make the comparison, if not inevitable, then useful. The government lacks the malice that it had in Atlas Shrugged, and is instead mostly just incompetent. She’s grabbing the reins and bending society to fit her vision. ![]() There’s no John Galt analogue the Dagny Taggart analogue is the one running the show, and she’s not withdrawing from the public. But for all that, there are a lot of sentiments in it that I can admire, like Dagny’s push for exceptionalism in the face of a world that worships mediocrity, and frankly, I think that in all that pontificating is buried a fine science fiction novel.įirestar isn’t Atlas Shrugged in some ways, it’s as anti- Atlas Shrugged as you can get while still remaining in the libertarian end of things. Ayn Rand and I wouldn’t see eye to eye in a number of areas, and I have a feeling she’d hold me in contempt in a few other areas, given her aggressive atheism and disdain for charity and my relatively orthodox Catholicism. I will go on record saying that I enjoyed Atlas Shrugged more than I didn’t. ![]()
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