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Objectivism in a nutshell.

You could hear the knives being sharpened as soon as the news came out.  Ayn Rand's magnus crapus Atlas Shrugged was being rushed into production by a bunch of people no one had heard of before in order to preserve the option on the material.

Just as no one could have predicted that bin Laden would strike in the US, that the levees would fail or that the housing bubble would burst, so, too, no one could have predicted that this would be a steaming pile of feces.

http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html#3402858641747286348

http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/17/battlefield-train-an-atlas-shrugged-movie-review/

Which leads to the finest summation of Rand I've ever heard:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.