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The Home Stretch

Five and a half hours left of Atlas Shrugged, it's been occupying my commute for just shy of 2 months. Goldman warned me of its infectiousness, and indeed it is. But the last 2.5 hours have been exclusively John Galt's soliloquy; I get it John, communism = bad, capitalism = good. Sheesh.

I'm curious what Rand would think, however, of these cabrónes, who've taken capitalism to its vilest extremes. Or her opinion of Vipassana & Theravada Buddhism, with which Objectivism has many striking similarities. There's more good stuff on this subject on Joshua Zader's blog:

"One of the passages in your book that stuck with me is that, at root, Buddhism is neither a religion nor a philosophy, but rather a set of practices. And to the extent that this is true, the abstract ideas behind the practices are secondary; what is primary is that the practices work to foster personal development and cultivate more fulfilling life experiences."