This is the eighth installment in the Dalek Game and is for Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which I have not read.
If anyone is waiting, breathless, to see whether I survived my trip to Sydney, I will post the rest of the drawings tonight or tomorrow.
June 1, 2011
June 1, 2011 at 6:47 am
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June 1, 2011 at 7:08 am
Hahaha!!!
June 2, 2011 at 7:03 am
:)
June 1, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Now I am wondering how a Dalek would say “Who is John Galt?” But Ayn Rand’s protagonists such as Dagny Taggart could very well make common cause with the Doctor against the Daleks!
June 2, 2011 at 7:04 am
You’re showing me up, Will! But should I read it?
June 2, 2011 at 1:53 pm
That is actually a tougher question than I might have thought. I cannot say Atlas Shrugged is a great novel by any means…but if one has lived in the United States since 2008 or so it has been uncanny to see so much of what Rand wrote about in the 1950′s coming TRUE.
By no means did Rand write from a Christian viewpoint – but I think she had a very good understanding of human nature, which is why she could seemingly see into the future. (Part of that came from her own experiences in Soviet Russia.) Where the Christian would say the answer to the problem of sinful human nature is the Gospel, Rand saw it as being an appeal to what I would call “enlightened self-interest” and that is what comes through in Atlas Shrugged.
To try to shorten this a bit, I think it is worth reading, perhaps more so for Americans rather than Australians at this point in time – at least I HOPE Oz is better off than the USA.
October 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm
No. Ayn Rand is to literature what Ayn Rand is to philosophy – nothing….
June 1, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Ooh, I think this is my favourite so far!
June 2, 2011 at 7:04 am
:) I’m glad! I like it but I haven’t decided on my favourite yet…
June 2, 2011 at 5:53 pm
I like this … but the Holly Hobby Dalek is still my favourite.
June 4, 2011 at 5:23 pm
:) Of course! But thanks.
June 3, 2011 at 10:18 am
Hahahahahaha!!!!! Katie I love this Dalek series. Serious post-night shift entertainment!
June 4, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Hi Jess! Thanks, glad to help :)
October 20, 2011 at 1:00 am
If you want to read Rand, I would strongly suggest The Fountainhead instead of Atlas Shrugged. It is an actual story with character development and a strong moral argument for the protagonist’s view. AS is very one-dimensional and uses sanctimony in lieu of cogent arguments for her views.
October 22, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Thanks for the rec – AR seems rather divisive!
October 23, 2011 at 10:09 am
This made me snortle. Thanks!
October 23, 2011 at 4:24 pm
You are very welcome :)