Buckley on Ayn Rand

Rand’s philosophy: Why write 5 words when you can write 20?

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Buckley was a self important wind bag with a fake accent.

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You are ignorant. Apparently you have are not from the south or have not traveled throughout the south. All accents are not the same. Do you think all regional accents are contrived?

William F. Buckley Jr, was more intelligent than you will ever be and his accent was probably a natural accession of his upbringing and his life journey. Buckley was very articulate and he purposely spoke slow and clear because he knew words spoken and the written word meant something. Mean what you say, say what you mean, and be understood. All people should practice that.


Watch this profile of William F. Buckley, if you dare, otherwise keep being ignorant. It has an interview with his mother who was born in New Orleans, listen to her accent and the way she speaks. His father was born in Texas, he was a lawyer, and became rich with oil. Texans have an accent that is different than those form those of others states from the south. Also, southern lawyers have a distinct way of talking even to this day.

Buckley best selling book, sold 35K copies and hit NYT best seller at number 16.

Atlas Shrugged spent 21 weeks at number one on NYT best seller list and has sold 10 million copies worldwide.

Seems Buckley's swipe at the book was a bit of jealousy

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it it is not the best of reads

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Agreed but the message is still valuable. It paints a detailed picture of what happens when socialism slowly creeps into an established capitalist system.

You can save a little bit of time by skipping the chapter where John Galt gives his speech. If you agree with Rands message by then you could write the speech yourself.

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on Atlas Shrugged: "I had to flog myself to read it." Said Fountainhead was an "engaging book"

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Buckley was spot on. Still, Atlas Shrugged proved a book could be both difficult and life-changing if you just have patience.

Frig" Buckley. His jelly is so apparent for the person who wrote Atlas Shrugged, the best selling book of all time.

I will not ever understand how a person like Buckley could ever be praised. What a tool he was.

Dude, he rescued the conservative movement when there was no conservative movement. When he came along, the New Deal and Saint Keynes were in full control. Central planning was the order of the day.

He established the conservative movement, nurtured it, and saw it blossom into the election of Reagan. Amazing how many leading conservative writers such as William Rusher, Russell Kirk, Whitaker Chambers. When Buckley died, it was amazing how many writers at other conservative publications said they got their start at National Review.

Buckley was about as conservative as a bush, no pun intended.

CSB I had an email exchange going with Ayn Rand's lover Nathaniel Brandon back in the 90s and asked him all kinds of questions about her.

It was the closest I came to a brush with greatness and I know she's a polarizing figure but she lived through allot.

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Rand’s philosophy: Why write 5 words when you can write 20?

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This. Atlas is one of those important books that is simultaneously hard to get through because of the author's stubborn insistence on lecturing you between plot points instead of simply getting her message through a good story. A good editor could have made a better book by chopping a third of the text, but Rand was absolutely insistent that the public needed to read every single word. That's the big difference between Fountainhead and Atlas. Both started as good story ideas with a viewpoint, but Rand insisted on making Atlas an "education" as well as a read. And it comes off as a dry seminar in-between the actually very good story points. Take the mountain train tunnel scene. It was absolutely haunting and pressed the author's point home while entertaining you. That's how you sell people on your ideas. Not by imagining that the whole world is your lecture hall.