AMERICAN ATLAS SHRUGGED: RISING TYRANNY IS AS CLEAR AS THE NOSE ON OUR FACE AND WE JUST DON'T SEE IT
Vol. I | Issue. 18 | August 9, 2021
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
―Ronald Reagan
Sometimes the easiest things for us to see are in plain view, yet they are invisible to us. Ayn Rand saw it in 1957, over 60 years before we got here, and to her, the direction we were headed was obvious.
Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna in 1905 in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1926. By the time she got here, she had seen enough of the communist perversion in her native land to shape her philosophy and chart her course intellectually and professionally. After a short stint living with relatives in New York, she found her way to Hollywood, became a movie extra, and after a brief encounter with legendary Hollywood producer, Cecile B. Demille (canceled by you know who), she became a screenwriter.
By the time Rand had left the Soviet Union, her father's business had been confiscated, she had been purged from Petrograd State University for her "bourgeois views" and seen firsthand that Marxism, Communism, and all of the rancid ideas and ingredients of the Soviet Union were built on a foundation of lies and State coercion.
Rand has been broadly discredited by the American “elite” because, in everything she had ever written, she rejected the idea of Statist Control, Collectivism, and Communism. If ever there was an intellectual triumvirate that the “elite” have a burning passion for it is all three of those uglies.
In Atlas Shrugged, the central question is who are the creators, and who are the destroyers of a prosperous, innovative free civil society free from State coercion, and ultimately complete control.
To that end, Rand introduces characters who are innovative, industrious, and relentless in their drive to create a better product, service, or to simply work hard in doing their job well. For purposes of this discussion, we will call these characters "creators".
On the flip side, Rand introduces those whose sole and exclusive aim is to nationalize all innovation through State nullification of patents, Communist production diktats, compensation based upon need, rather than merit, and the complete denial regarding any objective reality of phony science, and omnipotent government bureaucracies claiming the moral authority to dictate anything that they believe to be "in the Public Interest" or “for the greater good".
As for the denial of objective reality… We now have young boys coming home from school, announcing to their parents that they are now officially girls and that it’s their choice, and there is nothing that their parents can say or do about it. We have now learned from the CRT (Critical Race Theory) crowd that math is racist. Hey dude! 2+2=10
“Hey Mom, can we go shopping for dresses today?” … “Johnny, boys don't wear dresses, those are only for girls.” ... “I'm a girl as of today and if you try to stop me, I'll tell my teacher who will talk to the authorities!”
How about the current reality regarding the destruction of innovation, and Private Property Rights?
The CDC was once a highly respected Agency, whose mission was to research and find cures for infectious diseases, as well as anticipate public health crises before they surfaced. Now? They are a highly politicized instrument of their master’s voice, effectively nationalizing the multifamily housing industry in America, claiming eviction for nonpayment of rent to be a public health emergency. In reality, their eviction moratorium diktat is nothing more than their becoming the Marxist central paymaster for all residential multifamily properties in America. Their diktat rides in tandem with government subsidies to defaulting tenants which is the precursor to their goal of destroying private property rights of building owners.
As for the destruction of innovation, there has been much public contemplation of removing patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines based upon "discussions by the administration" with the WHO and our other "partners". We don't have partners in that regard, we have what Rand termed as "Looters"; Those who use their power and influence to steal the fruits of our innovation and harness them to their end of central statist control. America is the world’s most generous nation, we can afford to share our vaccines, but must not ever eliminate the patents which have afforded our private R&D infrastructure, their just rewards, and incentives in developing them.
With all of the strife death and tragedy from the pandemic, The Crowning achievement of this era belongs to the American biotech and pharmaceutical companies that brought this vaccine to fruition, without whom, there likely would have been hundreds of thousands, if not millions, more deaths.
How much innovation will there be in the future without reward or incentive to the innovators? Likely little or none. Yet the progressive Marxists “looters” just the same demand the rewards of those who have done the work.
Rand's central question Atlas Shrugged is “What happens if hard work, talent, and innovation go on strike because they do not receive their just reward?” What happens to our society if we are forced by our government to deny objective truth in fear of harsh sanctions and punishment?
It's already happening, and you should not dismiss or disregard the urgency of this admonition. Just think:
The Green New Deal.
A phony Multi-Trillion Infrastructure package comprised of roughly 75% Marxist Social Programs.
Critical Race Theory is being inserted ubiquitously in public and private schools throughout America poisoning the minds of America’s children.
Myriad of programs designed to bankrupt our system and create central statist control.
Please construe this as a wake-up call to action! What's happening now should be as plain as the nose on your face, yet most of us just don't see it.
If our American Atlas Shrugs, there will be no free world… We will have ceded our Nation to Tyranny, and that is not The American Way.
-Emes