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Ayn Rand saw the future.
I’ve been a fan of Ayn Rand since 1993 when I read Atlas Shrugged. That book change my life and clearly it has also has an affect on millions of others as well.
The absolutely amazing thing about Atlas Shrugged is that no matter what decade you’re in, it reads like it comes straight from today’s headlines — and today more than ever unfortunately.
You might recall the time former President Obama gave his now famous speech wherein he basically openly exposed his belief that the collective is more important than the individual (all but ignoring the fact that successful individuals freely trading with one other automatically makes for a strong collective).
It’s as if he and his like-minded crowd keep pushing on a door that is marked pull.
What continually amazes me is how Ayn Rand foretold so much of what is happening in the world because she had witnessed (lived it) already it first hand growing up in the old Soviet Russia, which she has described as a truly terrifying place the likes of which modern Americans have no real understanding.
How could someone born say after 1990 have any real concept of what tyranny feels like or looks like? It’s the stuff of history books as far as…