Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Sheer Galt...
Ayn Rand was a mediocre writer who espoused selfishness as a virtue. Naturally, the idiot conservative punditocracy has embraced her of late, calling for "Going Galt" (after Rand's Atlas Shrugged all-heart protag, John Galt). Okay, that's already retarded, but what really frosts my strawberries is that all these Galty-Come-Latelies can't even pronounce Rand's firstname correctly. It's not Ann, you bimboes, it's Ayn! Isn't that name fucked up enough to be memorable? Ayn. Here's an easy mnemonic, jerkwads: Ayn rhymes with whine. Got it?
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As most within "objectivist" circles will point out, the current economic mess is because the U.S. economy is a mixed economy with excessive regulation, NOT the laissez-faire capitalism Ayn Rand advocated. In fact, the U.S. ecomony has NEVER lived up to the standard she attempted to describe. If it had or did now, this economic mess would not exist and, even if there were market imbalances, only the laissez-faire capitalist marketplace could adequately solve them. Notice that the economy is in a mess because of excessive socialist thinking and today's socialists believe the only way to solve it is to establish even further socialist controls over what has never been but ought to have been a free market. As for today's CEO's "Going Galt", those who have held true to honest and respectful laissez-fair capitalism in their businesses perhaps ought to do just that. Other less-than-honest businessmen are "Going Galt" only to justify further fraudulent behaviors in the marketplace, i.e. to avoid the consequences of their dishonest dealings. I can assure you Ayn Rand would criticize their behavior as adamantly as she would criticize pure socialists. I can also assure you the dishonest businessmen attempting to cling to her coattails understand little if anything of Ayn Rand and of objectivism. There ought to always be a clear distinction between the honest businessman who truly values the principles of laissez-faire capitalism and those who have been little more than dishonest brutes out to defraud anyone and everyone they can. The truly objectivist businessman strongly disagrees with and refrains from such behavior personally and refrains from dealing with such fraudulent businesses when at all possible.
It is entirely appropriate for the honest man to "go Galt" if he, in fact, is being robbed with little to no recourse but to withdraw participation in a fraudulent marketplace. Dishonest men deserve precisely what they are suffering. Anyone who has read "Atlas Shrugged" or the "Fountainhead" with a genuine intellectually-honest viewpoint will see just that. If you do not come away from either of these books and her others with something approximating the views I express here, I suggest you read them again with an authentic desire to listen to what she has to say. I believe I speak for Ayn Rand and most other objectivists in this regard.
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