Pessimism v. Optimism

[Jim]

Hi :)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is one fo my favorite books. However it was Big business that revolted against a Corrupt Goverment and the Looters/People. Ayn Rand must be turing in her grave seeing that Big business is now the Looter.:P

Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the "minds" that drive society's growth and productivity; with their strike these creative minds hope to demonstrate that the economy and society would collapse without the profit motive and the efforts of the rational and productive.

Rand set out to create a work of fiction that explored the role of the mind in man's life and the morality of rational self-interest, by exploring the consequences when the "men of the mind" go on strike, refusing to allow their inventions, art, business leadership, scientific research, or new ideas to be taken from them by the government or by the rest of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

"In Atlas Shrugged, Rand tells the story of the U.S. economy crumbling under the weight of crushing government interventions and regulations. Meanwhile, blaming greed and the free market, Washington responds with more controls that only deepen the crisis. Sound familiar?"

Yaron Brook, "Is Rand Relevant?"
The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2009