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teamtuckercarlson ^ | 10/17/2021 | team

[The Westerner]

From your profile page, John Galt, is an astonishing prediction from 1982:

“As government controls and the power of political pull have soared, many Americans have come to feel – some reluctantly, others righteously – that survival requires identification with a group, which can serve as one’s refuge in an uncertain world, one’s protector from the other groups, and one’s lobbyist in Washington. The easiest group to form or to join is one defined by race…”

“This is the emergence in the United States of the most primitive form of collectivism, the form endemic to backward cultures (and to controlled economies): tribal racism. Racism is what takes over anywhere – wherever the knowledge of the nature and possibilities of man, man the individual, has not yet been grasped, or is being battered into oblivion.”

Leonard Peikoff, THE OMINOUS PARALLELS - The End of Freedom in America, 1982

[Who is John Galt?]

...an astonishing prediction from 1982...

When I originally read Mr. Peikoff's book, many years ago, it struck me that many of his ideas were sound. Decades later, some of his most pessimistic conclusions seem to be confirmed by current events. I am not sure if I know anyone who might agree with his personal political preferences (he has at various times endorsed Democrats or Republicans, and on occasion essentially 'none of the above' ;>), but that perhaps is a different matter...