Posted
9/17/2007 05:18:00 PM
by Douglas
Atlas Shrugged turns 50 next month. The libertarian in me wants you to go buy a copy and read it, but the brutal dictator in me wants to club you over the head with its
1,200 pages.The book is “Atlas Shrugged,” Ayn Rand’s glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest.
So you can see why Lefties would hate it. I had no idea Alan Greenspan was such a fan:
Shortly after “Atlas Shrugged” was published in 1957, Mr. Greenspan wrote a letter to The New York Times to counter a critic’s comment that “the book was written out of hate.” Mr. Greenspan wrote: “ ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.”
If only! If only there wasn't some huge, maniacal government regulatory agency that dictated everything. Ya know, like the
Federal Reserve?!?