What if I told you that around 70 years ago a book of philosophy was published that predicted the oil fracking boom in North Dakota?
What if I told you that that book would describe the state where the fracking (acquiring oil from shale) occurred would make the state with the lowest unemployment rate in the country and make it become a major economic power in the country?
What if I told you that around 70 years ago a book of philosophy was published that predicted that the countries of Europe would go bankrupt?
What if I told you that around 70 years ago a book of philosophy was published that predicted the collapse of a major bridge across the Mississippi river?
What if I told you that around 70 years ago a book of philosophy was published that predicted that the government would be in the business of making rules for big businesses in order to prevent new businesses from succeeding?
What if I told you that around 70 years ago a book of philosophy was published that predicted massive unemployment?
What if I told you that around 70 years ago a book of philosophy was published that predicted the breakup of some large companies because they are "monopolies," when really those companies didn't spend enough on supporting politicians?
What if I told you that around 70 years ago a book of philosophy was published that predicted the crumbling of our culture and society?
What if I listed a dozen other predictions made by this book warning of the dangers of big government and their occurrence today?
Would it be worth a read?
You could argue that you could find plenty of parallels between real life and any book of fiction. That is true. But if the author witnessed most of those things in one country, moved to avoid it, and then warned of the dangers of big government in a philosophical book of fiction, then wouldn't that be worth a read?
I have one last question for you:
Who is John Galt?
Alice Rosenbaum (her real name) also called Big Business (multinational corporations, the ones destroying the world's economy) "America's most persecuted minority."
ReplyDeleteThere's a difference between a company that makes money by inventing new goods and services and those of today who make money by getting the government to bail them out from bad deals, and getting the government to create laws that restrict other people from competing with the established companies.
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