there were a lot of problems with Atlas Shrugged as literature but as others have observed it was masterful in its depiction of the operation of state establishments in the face of economic collapse this reads like a government pronouncement from the second half of the bookhttps://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1450410755698958337 …
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im thinking in particular of the speech by the agriculture secretary or whatever explaining to americans that of course they dont need to be eating as much as they have been, simply look at the thin gruel of the chinese, are they not men, why can we not adopt their ways
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one thing i do not recall in that book is any depiction of people getting Sick Of This Shit or of political entrepreneurs rand portrays only business people and apparatchiks as actors but in a real crisis there are plenty of opportunities for political innovators
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anyway something to look forward to
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sailers law of male activists or something vonnegutian orientialism edition ht
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ah deleting above tweet. serves me right for not reading more than the headlinehttps://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1450544983874936846?t=NMKKCG4vWKKCmHKTkhtI2A&s=19 …
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