Atlas is Shrugging & Ayn Rand Was A Prophet

The word politics originates form the Greek word polis, meaning city. In other words, politics is supposed to be the rules of the city. So how is it that our elected officials are only supported by 22 percent of respondents? Read the story from today’s Wall Street Journal. 

What I wonder is, who are the 22 percent? They must be the people getting the deficit spending (bankers, automotive executives, AIG, the Fed, and governmental employees), and they must be very powerful for this game to last so long.

Anyone familiar with the classical novel written in 1957 by Ayn Rand, entitled Atlas Shrugged, surely must believe in prophets or messengers.

The politicians, who are supported by a mere 22 percent of the people, keep spawning new programs and spending more money, to fix a problem which they created.  These programs therefore create bigger systemic problems, hence requiring greater intervention and eventually causing the system to collapse. Just as Ms. Rand wrote over fifty years ago.

As evolutionary biology and Ayn Rand have demonstrated, it is not the strongest species that survive but the most responsive to change. This logic applies to industries and nations. From Ancient Greece to Rome, America to China, General Motors to Toyota, or Sears to Wal-Mart, once strong became weak, and weak became strong. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the nature of evolution and political systems is not a series of linear, incremental changes. It is a period of long slow progressive cycles followed by dramatic upheavals. During the turmoil, nothing is too big to fail.
We the people, and our national system, are at a once in a lifetime tipping point, a dramatic upheaval. A shift where the needs of the many have slowly been abused by a powerful few and indifference can no longer be tolerated. National survival is at risk.
 
It is a time when the people must unite and speak out in order that all sides understand when we must unite and when we must leave behind all selfish desires for the account of all noble and just solutions. Because even the great Atlas cannot hold this show up for much longer. I give it less than six years before we break his back.

Posted December 17 2009