Stop the Parodying of Altas Shrugged: Stop the Insanity!

When art creatively imitates life, it can bring forth magnificent aesthetic vibrations, connotative of supreme awe, that exult the most high reaches of those qualities observed artistically that do enrich human life superbly; but, when life crudely imitates art, it usually causes the equivalent of gastronomic vomiting to a rather much too obscene degree, unworthy of display among respectful people.
For the truly uninitiated, Ayn Rand’s Altas Shrugged, the product of a third-rate intellectual (at best) mind, hedonistically glorifies Capitalism as the only and highest value among civilized people who don’t waste their time unproductively pursuing religious or other such stupid questions; money is the cash value of modern, objectivist ethics. She preached, thus, an alleged new philosophy (once merely more prosaically called greed) known as Objectivism, though, of course, an actual society of only rationalist individualists has never and, moreover, will never exist anywhere on earth.
All of collectivism is to be opposed, however, not because it spiritually crushes the soul of Man under worship of the materialistic god of atheistic secularism; the individualist atheism of Objectivism is to be supported, Rand (Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, 1905 – 1982) contended, because of the positive need to affirm Capitalism, meaning supposedly the Holy Grail of all of triumphant modernity.
Of the two sides of the exactly same, common coin of modernity, she had totally praised the atheist absolutism of individualist egoism and completely condemned the atheist absolutism of true (secularist) collectivism. Objective observers, consequently, have, ever since, been totally and objectively puzzled about the actual meaning of Objectivism. Almost all this nation’s politicians have, however, been acting as if Rand deliberately wrote the (political) script for them in line with direct elements from Atlas Shrugged, one of the two most famous of her novels, the other being: The Fountainhead.
The destruction of America’s economy, as it goes from mere recession to a later major depression, is being assisted (as perceived by reading Atlas Shrugged) by actions that provoke dramatically the very conditions that, one assumes, are to be fought against by political action involving monetary decisions. Hog wild government spending and debt creation are being followed by yet more irresponsible, massive government expenditures and appropriations added to extra-large increases in the national deficit, which, in turn, will logically add to the accumulated national debt itself.
Although all of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s (FDR) New Deal, confirmed by the history books, had totally failed to spend America out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Democratic Party-controlled US Congress, under the future President Barack Hussein Obama, will be doing, basically, exactly the same thing. But, as psychiatrists tell people, doing the same thing endlessly but expecting always a different result is one of the clear definitions of insanity. A Republican, Pres. Richard M. Nixon had, of course, imposed wage and price controls (which failed), so, empirically speaking, the insane imposition of interventionist policies, in the economy, is not isolated to any one major political party in this country.
Ideological insanity, on an impressively grand scale, has genuinely gripped the USA, as is fully confirmed by the election of Obama and, moreover, by the notable increase in the number of liberals and leftists in the national Congress; this is, of course, as a direct result of that same election of November 2008. Too many people ignorantly believe, as Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801 – 1850) had noted, in the modern myth of the State: everybody thinks they can live at the expense of everybody else.
By doing so many kinds of parallel, idiotic things that were mentioned in her novel, this situation is making Rand look too much like a genuine, latter-day prophet who foresaw what would occur when collectivist-originated, Big-Government greed would finally come to destroy, first, economic freedom and then, later, many civil rights and civil liberties; after all, she yet was correct that such rights are dependent upon the freedom to make economic decisions free from central planning by the State.
As Obama and the Democratic Party-controlled Congress move ever closer toward realizing the goal of Fabian Socialism in creating a social market economy for America, Rand amazingly appears, more and more, to be a kind of Nostradamus figure who had the assumed clairvoyance to see the actual future. Of course, to be extremely fair, it can be well noted that Pres. George W. Bush followed the analogous attitude of Herbert Hoover in going the Big-Government route; this is as Obama will, analogously, go with the thinking of FDR who merely, if truth be told, had so extended and expanded the manifestly interventionist tendencies of Hoover’s Administration; both were, in fact, Big-Government advocates, though this is not widely known.
So, this article overtly pleads for completely stopping what is, in effect, the horrendous and tremendous parodying of Atlas Shrugged because of the way that liberal and leftist politicians and their business and other supporters are actually acting; it is a case of how life can, therefore, most horridly come to imitate art through the worship of the materialist ethics inherent in State collectivism that parade around as being altruistic and humanitarian.
But, as H. L. Mencken correctly pointed out long ago, and most succinctly as well, whenever A takes from B to give to C, A is a scoundrel. Robbing Peter to pay Paul does not, in short, make for a proper economic policy having a sound fiscal and monetary basis in national economic reality with, of course, requisite international implications.
Good reading would include many economists associated with the Austrian School of Economics; one can, e.g., read Ludwig von Mises’ Socialism or Friedrich von Hayek’s The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, as to exactly why the ideological predilection of collectivism (by whatever name) is not ever a proper and coherent understanding and comprehension of economic reality; also, one can come to logically perceive why it always integrally fails, especially concerning all its highest claims to achieve temporal success. Perhaps, more pertinent perusal would, particularly, pertain to Hayek’s much earlier work: The Road to Serfdom.
If the future Presidential Administration of Obama does not go opposite to the many interventionist failures of FDR, it is not inconceivable, therefore, that a great revival of interest in the writings of Rand may result, especially if the insanity doesn’t end. Parody is close to being farce; and, as even the 19th- century communist, Karl Marx, had recognized, history repeated a third time is farce. [So, don't give out with the repetitious literary line: Who is John Galt?]