RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 17, 2014 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2014 at 12:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Perhaps. Then again, perhaps -if that's the case- those people already had that sort of feeling about human interaction and the novel provided a way for them to see it expressed more clearly (even if that's not actually the case). People (and this is just my experience) do tend to express their innermost innermosts more fully and visibly when they're operating under the assumption that at least -someone- agrees with them. Maybe Atlas Shrugged tapped into an existing current, IE, they were always, albeit quietly - assholes? As a gentler aside; empathy, by it's very nature, can be exceedingly uncomfortable. An excuse to take a break from it is probably going to be welcome to most of us, even if only very briefly (if for no other reason than to quiet our minds), eh?
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