Atlas Shrugged is a more complex work that portrays a dystopian United States in which government regulation has run rampant and key industries are in the process of collapsing. It turns out that a mysterious character, John Galt, has been leading a strike of business leaders with plans to rebuild the world along objectivist lines. This egoism, she believed, was the natural product of reason, which she regarded as the only standard by which moral judgments could properly be made.
She branded altruism, the view that we should serve the interests of others, a moral evil founded on defective reasoning. Similarly, Rand had no use for religion, arguing that Christianity rests on a basic contradiction. While conceding that Jesus was one of the great early advocates for the sanctity of the individual human being, she regarded his message — that people should love and help others before themselves — as fundamentally altruistic. This, she believed, is profoundly at odds with the inherent egoism of the human psyche, which naturally puts self before others.
And this, she argued, is why Christians have never succeeded in putting their beliefs into practice, and a reason she could never abide Christianity. The former congressman and three-time presidential candidate will be joined by conservative personalities Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity in the film, directed by James Manera.
Based on the Liz Tuccillo novel, the film tells the story of a woman searching for love in New York. Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn wrote the adaptation, and Dana Fox is currently working on the most recent draft.
A recent investigation by Insider found that every Brandy Melville store in the US is owned by an independent company. Brandy Melville also owns a sub-brand called John Galt, sometimes stylized as J. Galt, a reference to a character in Ayn Rand 's novel "Atlas Shrugged. Marsan is also director of two other companies with libertarian-influenced names: Thomas Aquinas, Inc. Soon after Marsan opened the first Brandy Melville store in the US in , he began using copies of "Atlas Shrugged" as props in stores, a former employee who began working at a California store in told Insider.
Brandy Melville and Marsan did not respond to Insider's requests for comment. It also appears that the Google profile picture associated with Marsan's email address, which was provided by a former Brandy Melville employee, is an image of Bastiat.
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