hi , it has been a long time...this time i just wanted to write a little bit about the book that i finished reading yesterday...the centennial edition of "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand...The concept on which the book is based is just amazing...it just reflects something that i have been feeling for a long time now, but have not been able to put my finger on it.
Anyway, to get on with the synopsis...
The book is set in the United States which has been the hub of inventions and investment...there are a few people who are brilliant and are constantly innovating and others who survive by just playing politics and using the old boy network (sounds remarkably familiar to today's corporate world, doesn't it).
so, one fine day, people wake up to discover that all the brialliant people in the world - the writers, the industrialists, the philosophers, the inventors are all disappearing one by one...and the world is becoming a difficult place to live in...
the root of all this is a person called john galt who decided that it was time for the brilliance - the intelligence - the mind to go on strike until the rest of the world realises the true worth of the innovations that the great minds bring to the world.
so the story goes on ... with more people disappearing into a secret enclave where they set up a little world of their own, being very happy, doind what they do best -- innovating, inventing, etc. while the rest of the world is continuously falling into despair.
what john galt says about this is that by going on strike and at the same time practicing their craft for their own benefit rather than that of the world, they are only accelarating what would have anyway happened...but at the same time as they are preserving their minds, things will be just fine once people get rid of the leechers/ looters who are eating up the world like parasites and that is exactly what happens towards the end of the book.
the penmanship is quite amazing...it is a must read for every individual...the plot itself does go to a few extremes at times, but this is a book that no person in his right mind must miss....
go ahead ..read and enjoy....you will soon begin asking ..."Who is John Galt" "
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