THE FINAL ABSURDITY

Financial Sense Online ^ | 12/19/2008 | J.R.Nyquist

[mick]

And yet, despite the absurdities on every side, President Bush excuses himself by saying, “I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.” Oh ye of little faith! The free market doesn’t need you to save it! Even if it happens to collapse, it will recover if you leave it alone. The habit of government expansion and intervention has now reached this final absurdity – that of being “saved” by those who are choking the life out of it.

[Publius]

Actually, considering I'm reading the large paperback version (replacing the version I bought 30 years ago and wore out), it's more like another 1000 pages to that point.

It's a well written detective story with plenty of plot and atmosphere.

I've often wondered if someone could start a FReeper Book Club discussion of Atlas Shrugged on a chapter-by-chapter basis.

[mick]

I just pulled down my edition from the shelf. Hard back 1957. And took a look at Part 11 beginning on page 339.

How about these chapter headings as signs of the times:

“The Aristocracy of Pull”
“The Sanction of the victim”
The Moratorium on Brains”

The woman nailed it. We’re in for quite a ride....quite a ride.

[hermgem]

Well said:
The free market doesn't need you to save it.
You've been spending like a drunken sailor starting with
no child left behind, huge farm bill approvals, then you turned the corn chamber of the world into a ethanol growing enterprise and consequently tripled food costs.
Your history entrance:
Turning a the world's most successful capitalistic system into a socialistic government owned/controlled/dependent/ former world leader.
Happy retirement George.

[Publius]

By my calculation, we're in Part II ("Either-Or") and at the end of Chapter 1 ("The Man Who Belonged on Earth").

Next month after January 20 we'll transition into Chapter 2 ("The Aristocracy of Pull").

We have a long way to go to get to Part III ("A is A"), Chapter 10 ("In the Name of the Best Within Us").

It's going to be a nasty ride.

[Whispering Smith]

“I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.”
Back in 1966/7 there was this quotation concerning the Viet Nam war that said “we had to destroy the village in order to save it.” It didn't work then and it will not work now.

[mick]

It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the complete novel.
Because I bought yrs ago the paperback “For the New Intellectual” that contains all the great speeches and stories in the book and read that one over and over....I’ve pretty much forgotten the on-going plot details.
Maybe I am a foolish optimist , but I can’t see the American people being so depraved as to go the whole route outlined in the book without a bloody counter-revolution. Or maybe a bloody RESTORATION is a better term.

[B-Chan]

It's a well written detective story with plenty of plot and atmosphere.

Are we talking about the Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand here, or is there another, better-written version of which I am unware?

I've often wondered if someone could start a FReeper Book Club discussion of Atlas Shrugged on a chapter-by-chapter basis.

I've often wondered if someone could start a FReeper group dedicated to plucking out our eyebrows one hair at a time.

[Publius]

If we start an Atlas Shrugged discussion group, I'll make it a point not to ping you.

Jeez!