I’ve seen articles blaming Ayn Rand for the economic mess, crooked CEO’s, Dog eat Dog “Capitalism”, and a few declaring her a prophet. The former couldn’t be further from the truth, she expressed nothing but disgust for anyone who cheats to get ahead, the latter was true in the sense that she understood consequences…what the results of certain actions would be.  Her philosophy did not play games with reality.

I discovered “The Fountainhead” in the late ‘60’s, then read all her books and most of her articles, essays, etc.  I attended many recorded seminars in the ‘60’s & 70’s explaining her philosophy and her original definitions and concepts.  They were built on logic, common sense, and never wavered from a matrix of how humans can and should live and deal with each other fairly, and value merit, excellence and honor above all.

She taught that authentic self-esteem must be meticulously earned and that force should be used only in self-defense.  Her devotion to the Founders, the Declaration of Independence, Constitution & Bill of Rights was immense and her hatred for any form of Collectivism (Statism, Communism, Fascism, Socialism) was intense.  She saw what happened to her native Russia and fought fiercely to keep that hideous fate away from America.

Her Laissez Faire Capitalism was a system based on merit, excellence, honor, hard work, and pride.  The government’s role was quite small and very specific…it included little interference and absolutely no favors….nothing like they call Free Trade today or “public/private partnerships” which are heinously unconstitutional and anti-American.

As government grew, the more it became involved in business, e.g. the military/industrial complex and selective law enforcement which protects certain groups or individuals. In learned societies the system is called Fascism. “Public Servants” no longer have anything to do with “serving” and all to do with “taking” (more taxes, fees, funding, more freedoms), therefore they should realistically be called “Public Takers”.  The irony is that some of the “Takers” actually delude themselves into thinking they are doing “good” and “giving back”, whatever that’s supposed to mean other than you owe your life to the collective community (Communism).  Involuntary servitude is becoming a goal in vogue.

As the government “plantation” (welfare, racism encouraged by unfair set-asides, quotas, affirmative action, hand-outs to deadbeats) grew and unearned rewards were doled out from monies taken by force in taxes, the multitudes of recipients became lazy, dependent, ignorant, demanding, and arrogant.  Fair play, achievement, individual rights to property, free speech, assembly, bearing arms, and many more became lost concepts in the intentional cesspool of misinformation, corruption, favoritism, ignorance and arrogance.  Miscarriages of justice have become too common with innocent people punished and the guilty rewarded…the Great Protection Racket is paying off the corrupt players at the expense of trusting citizens (e.g. Ramos & Compean, Wayne Fincher, whistleblowers) by making examples of them to discourage and intimidate others.  Witness the lengths to which they’ll go to ignore and/or distort laws which don’t suit their purposes.

As a culture we have done everything wrong according to Ayn Rand’s philosophy and code of ethics. We have sacrificed excellence and truth to divisive “diversity”, a hollow concept at best. We have allowed a return of slavery by exploitation of illegal aliens and sticking taxpaying citizens with their healthcare, education, etc. by corrupt employers/politicrats, dignity and self-reliance destroyed with welfare, young people have been tricked into senseless, bloody wars, untold numbers of innocents have been blown to smithereens, maimed and made homeless, Americans have fallen for the most idiotic, ruthless schemes imaginable, in short—utterly and totally betrayed the Founders and their wondrous, courageous works.

We are now marching double-time backwards into the Dark Ages and/or the Jungle….observe the tattoos, piercings, manner of dress, “art”, “music”, “movies”, behavior, manners, speech, values, gangs,pursuits, business and church practice—witness the pathetic efforts to disguise outright exploitation/servitude of poverty ridden, illiterate aliens behind a veil of charity and tolerance while forcing the producers to subsidize the illegals...what a deal!!  Machiavelli and Marx would be proud.

Ayn Rand was glad she would die before seeing her predictions come true and who can blame her?

If you wish to experience Man the Hero, the achiever, the way the world ought to be and the way to attain it, get busy reading her writings, especially “Atlas Shrugged”, “The Fountainhead”, “Anthem”, “We the Living” and others because from what we are seeing our governments doing, book burning is not far away.