Best Seller
Free Market Revolution has made the USA Today best-selling books list. We’re at 103 in the nation. (I can’t seem to find a permalink, but for now you can see it here.) Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen.
The Uncompromised Case for Capitalism
Free Market Revolution has made the USA Today best-selling books list. We’re at 103 in the nation. (I can’t seem to find a permalink, but for now you can see it here.) Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen.
9 Comments to “Best Seller”
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Hi,I believe it could be: Anthem by Ayn Rand.This is what wdkipeiia had to say:Equality 7-2521, writing in a tunnel under the earth, explains his background, the society around him, and his emigration. His exclusive use of plural pronouns (we, our, they) to refer to himself and others is immediately obvious. The idea of the World council was to eliminate all individualist ideas. It was so stressed, that people were burned at the stake for saying an Unspeakable Word (which is not revealed at this time). He recounts his early life. He was raised, like all children in the world of Anthem, away from his parents in the Home of the Infants, then transferred to the Home of the Students, where he began his schooling. Later, he realized that he was born with a curse : He is eager to think and question, and unwilling to give up himself for others, which violates the principles upon which Anthem’s society is founded. He excelled in math and science, and dreamed of becoming a Scholar. However, a Council of Vocations assigned all people to their jobs, and he was assigned to the Home of the Street Sweepers.Equality accepts his profession willingly in order to repent for his transgression (his desire to learn). He works with International 4-8818 and Union 5-3992. International is exceptionally tall, a great artist (which is his transgression, as only people chosen to be artists may draw), and Equality’s only friend (having a friend also being a crime because, in Anthem’s society, one is not supposed to prefer one of one’s brothers over the rest). Union, they of the half-brain, suffers from epilepsy.However, he remains curious. One day, he finds the entrance to a subway tunnel in his assigned work area and explores it, despite International 4-8818 s protests that an action unauthorized by a Council is forbidden. Equality realizes that the tunnel is left over from the Unmentionable Times, before the creation of Anthem’s society, and is curious about it. During the daily three hour-long play, he leaves the rest of the community at the theater and enters the tunnel and undertakes scientific experiments.Working outside the City one day, by a field, Equality meets and falls in love with a woman, Liberty 5-3000, whom he names The Golden One. Also, Liberty 5-3000 names Equality The Unconquered. Continuing his scientific work, he rediscovers electricity and the light bulb. He decides to take his inventions to the World Council of Scholars, so that they will recognize his talent and allow him to work with them. He is still motivated by a socially instilled need to aid his fellow citizens. However, his absence from the Home of the Street Sweepers is noticed, and he is arrested and then sent to the Palace of Corrective Detention, from which he easily escapes after being tortured.The day after his escape, he walks in on the World Council of Scholars and presents his work to them. Horrified, they reject it because it was not authorized by a Council and threatens to upset the equilibrium of their world. When they try to destroy his invention, he takes it and flees into the forest outside the City.Upon entering the Uncharted Forest, Equality begins to realize that he is free, that he no longer must wake up every morning with his brothers to sweep the streets. He can rise, or run, or leap, or fall down again. Now that he sees this, he is not stricken with the sense that he will die at the fangs of the beasts of the forest as a result of his transgressions. He develops a new understanding of the world and his place in it.On his second day of living in the forest, Equality stumbles upon the Golden One, Liberty 5-3000, who has followed him from the City. They embrace, struggling to express their feelings for each other as they do not know how to think of themselves as individuals. They find and enter a house from the Unmentionable Times in the mountains, perfectly preserved for hundreds of years by thick overgrowth, and decide to live in it.While reading books from the house’s library, Equality and Liberty discover that the Unspeakable Word, the one that carries the penalty of death, is I. Recognizing its sacred value and the individuality it expresses, they give themselves new names from the books: Equality becomes Prometheus, and Liberty becomes Gaea. As the book closes, Prometheus talks about the past, wonders how men could give up their individuality, and charts a future in which they will regain it.The last word of the book, Ego is inscribed by Equality on a rock. Whilst some are confused why he hadn’t rather written I on the rock instead, it is conceivable that Ego , being the Latin word meaning I , was written by Rand who perhaps wanted the ancient Latin root of the word I to be dictated instead. Rand put the word Ego at the end of the novel not in the modern sense of a person having an ego, but in the sense of an ego being an identity of man.Hope this helps.
If it said how to end government, i would buy it. Government being a cancer, it gives me no solace to have small vs big. small becomes big as its nature commands.
Well first thing you have to realize is that you lose $75,000 to inaoftiln in that nine year period. Then you have to ask how much you are paying in taxes. In fargo, that would come to about $50,000 over 9 years. It will cost you about $35,000 to heat your home over those 9 years, and it will cost another $5,000 over that span for homeowners insurance. Your profit is suddenly down to $85,000, and you haven’t even included the two biggest expenses yet interest and upkeep. Nor have you considered the fact that your scenario is a best case scenario.
Don! YEA! Hurray! Huzzahs and. . .I can’t think of any of the other cheers, but it is great news about the book’s ranking.
It’s such wonderfully simple—as in straightforward, clear, concise—writing that while reading it I’m often overcome by that special feeling I always get when reading some non-fiction piece by Miss Rand, or Leonard: This is so clear and easy to understand that I’m still amazed to this day (I go way back to the NY lectures in the Sixties) that some people can’t/won’t understand it—although after many years I finally know why that is.
Anyway, I’m so glad you and Yaron decided to write this, and write it in the way you did: to easily reach many people and then let them take it from there. Continued success.
Giovanna,
“. . .I finally know why that is.”
This is a question I have. The only cause I’ve been able to come up with is that people don’t have a habit of digging for clarity and understanding, can’t deal with ideas, profoundly disagree with (and hate) what’s being said, and end up selfdeceiving themselves into grossly distorted interpretations. When this stuff gets written up, Objectivism gets painted as insane nonsense (i.e., implicitly dangerous) and Rand painted as not a philosopher at all (or worse) — i.e., don’t bother wasting your time on Ayn Rand and Objectivism.
Its in your general Outlook
Malevolent Universe vs. Benevolent Universe
Messers. Watkins and Brook have produced an analysis of dealing with ‘the world as it is’ - for the views of people living as it could be and should be keep an occasional eye out here:
http://www.GaltsGulchPerspective.blogspot.com
The coming years promise to be interesting - much literary, cinematic, internautic discussion - All promotion and free advertising for the now immortalized-immoveable-mover (do I need to name her?) but you should know that the part dealing with the Atlantis factor now is available.
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Interesting too, is that John Allison’s book is #83 at Amazon on its first day out. It’s also #1 in three business and investing subcategories.