Talk:1049: Bookshelf
Rig this up to the entire twilight section. Problem solved. Davidy22[talk] 13:57, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Does Atlas Shrugged have any particular relevance to the strip? Alpha (talk) 02:14, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
- Ayn Rand is pretty controversial, and a lot of people dismiss her books outright. Some of them are an interesting read, though. -- 217.28.5.48 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
There is a factual inaccuracy in the explanation here — her philosophy is libertarian, not conservative. Please fix that. 46.150.103.149 14:47, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
"far-right" ??? This very subjective and insulting. But I guess it's the aim of such assertion. 109.255.215.93 07:47, 14 October 2013 (UTC) Another inaccuracy: Rand herself found the Libertarians, like any political party, to be counterintuitive to her philosophy of Objectivism. Though I think "libertarian" should be changed to "objectivism," I'll leave it and just make a side-note, because one could say that Atlas Shrugged is to Libertarians as the Bible is to Christians. Jinx 20:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
I have to agree, Objectivism is a philosophy, Libertarianism is a political movement. Although the two have a few overlaps, they are very different things. Rand was adamantly opposed the Libertarian Party and and wrote quite a bit about her objections. 173.245.54.175 23:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Does Libertarianism have anything to do with this strip? Why is it included 173.245.50.156 21:24, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
As a communist, I love this one :DInternational Space Station (talk) 15:56, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Randal's political beliefs would probably place him among the villains of the piece, a comic criticizing an influential work based on taste might place him there as well. Doesn't matter, my terrible tastes lead to me reading Atlas shrugged and xkcd so... careful Randal. 172.69.6.94 14:12, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
All you guys in talk:
Proverb a hit dog will holler
(US) An offended or defensive response to a statement suggests that the statement applies to the person complaining. 172.68.38.120 02:27, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
"Far right" is broadly similar to "far left"; "far right" only means "further right than I am", and "far left" means "further left than I am", so in effect everybody is one or the other. Not that it matters which one you are, because they're much of a muchness. Both extremes want power, both extremes think the other lot is rigging the election; and neither extreme believes itself to be an extreme. People who dismiss a political view as "far right" or "far left" do so because they don't want people to think it over for themselves. Both labels have long since lost their usefulness, because they have become knee-jerk insults. If we really want to know what's true, we should look beyond vacuous labels, because that's how we can avoid being "a huge asshole to everyone". (Here endeth the lesson.) 172.70.85.101 13:07, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
