My wife says that the first time I read it that I did comment frequently that events in the book were happening similarly in the present.
But this time, it seems like an analogy with present events occurs to me about every three pages.
For example, in the book it is described that a pirate ship is operating along the east coast of the U.S. but the newspapers are not reporting it. How similar to the attempted government blackout of reporting on the BP oil spill. It's been reported that there are areas of the gulf with oil on the water in every direction to the horizon. I haven't seen this picture in the news.
I first read Atlas when I was in high school, and have read it ten times total.
I keep waiting for an Obama Administration official or the President himself to finish up a speech and then say, “I’d like to thank my speech writer Ayn Rand for putting together these thoughts”.
She had them nailed to the wall fifty years ago.
Jen