Comments on: Fear of Dissension http://nowisgone.com/2008/02/14/fear-of-dissension/ A Primer on New Media for Executives and Entrepreneurs Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:27:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Now Is Gone » Comments About Comments http://nowisgone.com/2008/02/14/fear-of-dissension/#comment-1178 Now Is Gone » Comments About Comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:25:59 +0000 http://nowisgone.com/2008/02/14/fear-of-dissension/#comment-1178 [...] Fear of dissension can be conquered by establishing: [...] [...] Fear of dissension can be conquered by establishing: [...]

]]> By: Greg http://nowisgone.com/2008/02/14/fear-of-dissension/#comment-1114 Greg Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:58:41 +0000 http://nowisgone.com/2008/02/14/fear-of-dissension/#comment-1114 You're absolutely right, dissent can and always will be a force for positive change. But Anthem? Come on, Fahrenheit 451, that is a classic. But Anthem? Anthem may be one of the most trite, self serving and solipsist pieces of literature I have ever had the misfortune of reading. Yes, the world it presents is not dissimilar to the world that exists in many other dystopian novels, but Ayn Rand's interpretation of the importance of the ego is so heavy-handed and overblown that it actually made me like some of her other books less that I did before reading Anthem. What about Brave New World or 1984? Clockwork Orange anyone? Anything but Anthem. Okay, rant about objectivist authors over. You’re absolutely right, dissent can and always will be a force for positive change.

But Anthem? Come on, Fahrenheit 451, that is a classic. But Anthem? Anthem may be one of the most trite, self serving and solipsist pieces of literature I have ever had the misfortune of reading. Yes, the world it presents is not dissimilar to the world that exists in many other dystopian novels, but Ayn Rand’s interpretation of the importance of the ego is so heavy-handed and overblown that it actually made me like some of her other books less that I did before reading Anthem.

What about Brave New World or 1984? Clockwork Orange anyone? Anything but Anthem.

Okay, rant about objectivist authors over.

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