I’m only 200 pages into Atlas Shrugged but loving every minute of it. Found this powerful quote on Wikipedia (Originally from New York Times).
“Both conservatives and liberals were unstinting in disparaging the book [Atlas Shrugged]; the right saw promotion of godlessness, and the left saw a message of greed is good. Rand is said to have cried every day as the reviews came out.”
Even though Ayn Rand knew why critics were so disparaging by virtue of her own philosophy, Objectivism, it still hit her to the core every time. This feeling has been mimicked in my own life when arguing the merits of one technology or another (most often nuclear power). I understand why the opposition is wrong and why I can never hope to change their minds but it still infuriates me and requires a great deal of self control to be able to ‘shrug’ it off (pun intended).
