Posted on 07/08/2021 2:09:55 PM PDT by blam
Behind The Decision To Remove A Statue Of Robert E. Lee
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. -- George Orwell, "1984"
Atlas Shrugged ought to be required reading in all high schools with a comprehension test given at the end.
The Democrats have to remove all the statues reminding us of when the Democrats literally fought a war to keep blacks in chains.
I agree.
I used to give this book as a gift to seniors who invited me to their graduation.
Here’s what our local communist rag just published about the new Colorado state law relieving the legislature of any responsibility for adherence to the constitution.
“The law, signed June 19 by Gov. Jared Polis, allows local governments to enact regulations or laws governing or prohibiting the sale, purchase, transfer or possession of firearms, ammunition or accessories. There were four primary sponsors, including legislators Sen. Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, and Rep. Edie Hooton, D-Boulder.”
Our council in Longmont had a semi-secret meeting last night about how they’re going to put a boot on every ones neck. That’s just my take though.
Where are the protections from tyranny here? I heard (haven’t verified it) that they based this on a 1902 law allowing cities to do basically anything they want to.
I’ve read it three times and got something new each time, I encourage people all the time to read it
I agree with the premise of the article are going full John Galt personally I think everything crashing and burning is inevitable the question remains what happens afterwards
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was President of a company. 7 years ago I quit. I never looked for another job. I felt that being a white male meant that I was not wanted on boards especially since I am a conservative. I just hung up everything and retired at 53.
Our current set of CEOs seem to be OK with government encroachment, and are even helping to participate in it.
I see no John Galt's out there.
Was McAfee trying to "Go Galt?"
Bkmk
-PJ
still got the book and all 3 movies
My last job was a contractor at an Air Force Base, where I had to deal with the early “woke” US Air Force.
As a single and later, married white male, Army vet and straight, I had to walk a careful line. The USAF is cultivating an environment where color and gender are more important than mission accomplishment.
I retired, and never looked back. The Rat Race has got to get along with one less Rat!
In the audiobook version, Galt’s speech lasts about 3 hours or so.
The typical response will be TL; DR
(Too Long, Didn’t Read)
I retired at the end of 1994 at age 51.
I was a chip-maker since 1967.
I had a (Unattended) racial sensitivity training meeting still on my calendar when I left.
(I used to say I am in Galt's Gulch, I don't know why I don't anymore.)
So I just had an idea...I know, “don’t hurt yourself”. The next time I hear someone say that socialism/communism hasn’t worked is because the right people haven’t tried it yet, I will tell them that they are a racist of the worst sort.
Where has it failed? Cuba, Venezuela, China, to name a few. And the people pushing for socialism/communism? Usually white.
“So what you’re saying is that it will work when you, the white man, does it because the “wrong” people where trying it before. You know, brown and yellow people.”
The novel used to be a work of fiction.
the beautiful and highly functional Republic of the USA that we enjoyed for so long was an aberration from the norm of human history which is tyrannical control of the populace through violence, intimidation, withholding of food, information and education. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely what comes next is on par with what we, as Americans, have experienced in the past.
“Our current set of CEOs seem to be OK with government encroachment, and are even helping to participate in it.”
In the 1950’s, when Atlas Shrugged was written, the career path to CEO was through sales and marketing or manufacturing. Either career path required measurable accomplishment and actual creation of value for the organization and its customers.
Today the career path to CEO is through finance or legal. These are administrative careers, not value creation. The path to CEO is more a political walk rather than creating products of value to customers, finding customers, or making things more efficiently. In fact many of today’s financial CEO’s destroyed value by offshoring production to contractors, stock buybacks, and failed mergers and divestitures. It is noteworthy the CEO to worker pay ration has increased 1,000 percent since 1950. Financial CEO’s manipulate numbers to pad their wallets. Few create real lasting value for the shareholders or customers.
Look at the destruction of once great companies and industries in the US since 1950. Auto industry, steel industry, consumer electronics, consumer appliances. Retail - Sears, JC Penney, Kmart, and hundreds of other retail companies. Leverage buyouts, private equity takeovers, and mergers have resulted in assets being offshored, cash siphoned off to management and investment banks. Competitive advantages were squandered and innovation stifled.
Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged knew CEO’s who made things, created things, and sold things of value. The concept of a CEO stripping assets to buy back stock to drive the stock price and the value of his stock options was inconceivable in 1957.
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