This is a cult

ah aphorisms the go to of the sheep.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Agreed here. I find agitation in her writing in that there are parts here and there that display traits to be admirable but it's mixed in with so much nonsense, ridiculous personality extremes and absurdly bad writing that the novels do become in a lot of ways, comical and worthy of not much more than mockery.

My gripes with almost all of her books start with the overly wordy nature. When I read the book and saw the speech was 68 pages long, I sorta sighed and after about 10 pages in I realized I could skip a few pages at a time, read a couple paragraphs, repeat and lose nothing. I mean seriously:

Looters, each man according to his own works....Skip 10 pages.....The mediocre robbing the capable and calling it progress.....Skip 10 pages..... removal from society until those among us who are capable are allowed to work unfettered to fix the problems of looting......skip 10 pages..... on and on. Piss poor writing on her part.

Her entire literary career is like that so no shock.

It is then closely followed up by the fact that she and those who "follow" her books are nothing more than zealots. There's a word for someone who believes in an idea, whatever it may be and pushes it to the very end of the spectrum well past the point of being rational or actually implementable in the real world. Those people are called fanatics or fundamentalists or what have you. And this is the really damnable part of her books.

All of this comes together to create boring books with unlikable, robotic, zealot, unrelatable protagonists who supposedly function to carry society but refuse to in any way be a part of it and it serves to alienate any readers except those of the same exact mind from the good ideas she can present here and there.

Those good ideas are simple in this day and age and something we could all, myself included, aspire to more often.

-Love what you do and work hard to master it.
-Look to thrive based on the opportunities you can create and the achievements you can accomplish.
-Don't try to take what others have because you can. Consider the accomplishments of others as inspiring.
-Be willing to ask for help if you need it but use it to become the better version of yourself you aspire to instead of floating into complacency.

That last one is certainly not implied by her ever but a tenet I try to live up to.

Instead of these semi admirable ideas, we just get a bunch of fools who warp this into:

-Blindly hate those who are poor or less capable.
-Be actively scornful toward and feel no obligation to help those who are in a lesser position than yourself via opportunity.
-Become an extreme stereotype of greed and money above all like a turbocharged version of Gordon Gekko.

"spot the looters" oh I always love that one. Sociopaths can be so funny.

I liked the movies personally. The book not so much, but mostly because it was long-winded. I don't find this to be a cult at all. I'm a Christian myself, no, not Westboro Baptist Creeps (they give Christianity a BAD name).

This story shows the government creating a massive economic contradiction: they claim that capitalism doesn't work, but their version of capitalism involved thousands upon thousands of harsh rules and regulations, so in essence, they weren't practicing capitalism at all, but still using that term to describe the economic system. Capitalism by definition involves very little government intervention in the economy (the intervention being the necessary anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws along with the banning of insider trading plus some smaller regulations, such as health codes and safety codes, etc.). It's interesting that our government and the government in the movie choose to restrain capitalism further and further and can't realize that the restrictions are causing the problems, instead putting all the blame back on businesses who are struggling to keep afloat in all the regulations (not talking about massive corporations but mainly franchises and small businesses). The more you regulate business, the less it can function. The Russians learned this decades ago during the years of the USSR. Government-run industry can not function properly due to the lack of funds and the lack of incentive to work. People quit industries run by the government over time because the revenue the "businesses" generate is distributed equally amongst them anyway, so they have no reason to contribute to the work force. That's why socialism and Communism don't work. That's why the Soviet Union collapsed.

Franklin Roosevelt put us in this mess with his New Deal.
Did he create some agencies that do good things and were necessary? Definitely. From him we got the Food and Drug Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority, etc.
But did he also create many more agencies that gave the government far too much power over the economy? Most definitely yes. FDR set the standard for socialism in the United States, sending taxes through the roof starting in 1937 in a feeble attempt to balance the budget. But balancing the budget of creating hundreds of agencies is completely impossible, a fact which he was very well aware of. He continued to spread control over the US economy for years, freezing wages and prices through agencies such as the Office of Price Administration, putting America on a rationing system. All of this is disturbingly similar to the actions of the Head of State in Atlas Shrugged, trying to freeze an already-failing economy in place, but resulting in even more catastrophic failure. The United States' economy recovered when business, yes business, created thousands upon thousands of jobs in factories to help the war effort among other jobs. FDR's tax hikes and agency creations did nothing to help the US economy, as the data will show. His policies actually led to even greater depression. It was only when business was finally turned loose that the economy recovered.
Restricting capitalism only hurts the economy. It does not and will not help it. Capitalism has its natural ups and downs just like any other economic system. The government should never have bailed out big business, EVER. That does include the bailouts by President Bush and of course those by President Obama. The law of free enterprise states that businesses will rise and eventually fail, only to be replaced by new businesses that will catch the economy and turn it around.

Just goes to show that Rightwingers should stay out of the entertainment business. They're just not good at it.