[Noumenon]

Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name.

In light of the last few days of the 2008 DNC Looters and Cannibals Ball, I thought that this piece was particularly timely.

Because underneath all of the rhetoric, posturing and buffoonery, there lie ideas and assumptions. Assumptions about the nature and purpose of Man. Ideas that directly address the question: "To whom does my life belong?"

Large numbers of our fellow citizens have decided that, at some level, slavery is just fine with them - especially if it's someone else (or so they think) who'll be wearing the chains.

They think that they're in the vanguard of the elite, the company of the 'saved'. They'll find out soon enough just what their lives are worth, and where they are in the collectivist food chain.

Time for Atlas to shrug - and to pick up a gun.

[aquila48]

“—Ayn Rand. April, 1946”

Amazing that we’re fighting the same war 60+ years later. I thought after the Soviet Union fell that that war was over, little did I know.

I’m going to listen tonight to Obama and see how many times he mentions FREEDOM vs SOCIAL and COMMUNITY.

Eternal vigilance.

[Mike Fieschko]

The book, which was assigned reading freshman year in my public high school, is out of U.S. copyright and freely available at Anthem at archive.org.