March 6, 2024

George Orwell and Ayn Rand had a handle on the future. Orwell's "1986" is unreadable because it's so scary, and so right on track.

Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is sobering because what she wrote is exactly what is happening here, right now, in our country. Here's the description that is written about the book. You owe it to yourself to read it.

"The book depicts a future U.S. on the verge of economic collapse, after years of collectivist misrule, under which productive and creative citizens (primarily industrialists, scientists and artists) have been exploited to benefit an undeserviing population of moochers and incompetents.

The hero, John Galt, a physicist and inventor, leads a band of elite producers and creators in a 'strike' designed to deprive the economy of their leadership and thereby force the government to respect their economic freedom."

When the producers, entrepreneurs, those who provide the steel, the railways, literature, stop doing what they do, under the burdensome rules the inferiors in the government impose, it is with the resulting collapse of everything in which the country rights itself again.

Read it. 

Hang tough.