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Resistance is Futile
I have noticed a strange phenomenon which seems to have accelerated since the last American election, at least in the United States.
Think about it for a moment. The left has almost total control of the federal government, they have a majority of the governors of the states, a majority on the Supreme Court, they own all but one of the major TV networks, they have the children in the public schools hostage to the teacher’s union and ideology, they have dominance of the discourse in the major universities in the nation, including many Catholic universities, they own Hollywood…etc., etc.
You would think »» Resistance is Futile
Christians in an Ayn Rand world.
Back in another post I was speculating on Objectivism and Christianity, specifically Catholic Christianity, and musing whether to dig into a project to go over the John Galt radio address in Atlas Shrugged, and I still would like to do that.
However, from a different angle, a thought came to me today (I try to keep it down to one a day, otherwise I get a headache). I had looked at a introductory lecture by Leonard Peikoff, the official caretaker of the Ayn Rand legacy, and tried to picture the world as it would be under an objectivist government and economy.
I have yet to fully explore this on a point by point basis, and see how it would play out in real life, but I am thinking that, despite the fact that Peikoff and any serious objectivist (of the Rand school) must be atheist, I would stick my neck out and suggest that such a society might be the best place for a Christian.
I’m going to explore that and elaborate at some future time, but so far I don’t see any serious stumbling block to my assertion. Listen to Peikoff and then try to picture what he sees as the social/economic order were America, for example, to become (not return to) a nation with an objectivist government.
Stay tuned.
Memo to John Galt: Check your premises.
The timing couldn’t have been better. As it becomes more and more apparent that the Democrats are grabbing for the brass ring of socialism in this one massive Bill in Congress, throwing in items like the medical registry with the authority to “advise” doctors as to what sort of treatment should be meted out, not just under government plans but private care as well; and this based on the practical ratio of how long the patient is expected to live after the treatment. So, »» Memo to John Galt: Check your premises.
Acquiescence
The progressives need something from the producers now, from the people who actually make the economy work. This will be tone of the propaganda arm of the American government now that the Health Care Bill is passed.
It will start as a new focus on the economy, and it will essentially come down to an appeal to the investors, innovators and business people that the deal is not all that bad and they will get used to it, and, nudge-nudge, wink-wink, they will find ways to make it all work in their favor as they normally do. Let’s all get along. It is now the law of the land and we might as well get used to it and get back to work. »» Acquiescence
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