It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see what’s coming—a satiric parable

American Thinker ^ | 9 Nov, 2021 | Terry Paulding

[MtnClimber]

If you think of America’s two competing political belief systems as two trains heading towards each other on a single track, a clear picture emerges—a satiric parable.

There are two trains on the track, moving from opposite directions. Train one is a super-speed, solar-powered train a la France’s Train à Grande Vitesse. You know, the one where every car’s roof is an energy-producing solar panel and there’re wind-mill doohickies spaced along the top too, taking great advantage of the speed-generated wind. Its cars are filled with the woke, excited for their shiny future, a future without COVID because everyone’s vaccinated; a future without fossil fuels, because the alternatives work; a future where equity reigns. Proudly, the engineer and all the staff were hired for their diversity and all, of course, are masked and “fully” vaccinated with their mandated bi-monthly “boosters.”

Train two is a lumbering, old-fashioned, diesel-burning relic, the kind that has moved freight and people for years on end. It’s a long train, pulled by two engines, filled with both working folks and consumer goods. Nobody’s terribly excited to be on it but it’s reliable. It gets you there—and you don’t need to show a passport to travel on it.

The problem is, they’re on the same track and will collide if somebody (a fully vaccinated BIPOC hire, of course!) doesn’t wake up and hit the button to confirm the computer’s switch mechanism that diverts one train onto another track. That person just collapsed from an unspecified physical problem and won’t be confirming the switch, no matter how many prompts the computer gives. Instead, like so many others, they (we will not identify a gender, because they haven’t told us their pronouns) are waiting for an ambulance to come.

[MtnClimber]

Atlas Shrugged is also a fitting parable. Especially the train with the engine changed to a coal-fired and travelling through a tunnel.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Classic. I enjoyed the read.

[Flick Lives]

Atlas Shrugged is also a fitting parable. Especially the train with the engine changed to a coal-fired and travelling through a tunnel.

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An interesting scene in “Atlas Shrugged” brought about in part because a government bureaucrat onboard the train *demands* to get to his destination, forcing the replacement train crew to swap out the diesel locomotive which has died for a coal-fired steam locomotive; the original train crew having walked off the job because of the danger involved in doing that.

[stars & stripes forever]

“And that’s, my friends, the end of the story.” ~ Paul Harvey

[MtnClimber]

Yes, that is the scene. There was the leftist professor lecturing his nonsense as they were all heading to their end. There is a message there for the woke crowd, but they would not understand.

[D Rider]

Now that parable is just dumb. Nothing shiny about communism.

[The Louiswu]

Ms Rand was verbose and prescient. AS is a terrific read and it amuses me to read comments from lefties on various book sites on how stupid she was and how bad they think her writing is when much of what she wrote is true or coming true as we speak.

[bk1000]

“Atlas Shrugged is also a fitting parable.”

Indeed it is. My wife just finished it and was stunned by how it parallels today’s adventures.