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It’s the Ominous Parallels: Why Citizens are Rediscovering “Atlas Shrugged” In the Age of Obama

by | 12:41 pm, April 18, 2009 | Comments Off

Atlas ShruggedBruce Webster at And Still I Persist has an instructive post on why Atlas Shrugged is finding new audiences and enthusiastic new fans in our bold new era of Hope and Change™.  The post consists of a summary of the major themes and overall plot of the book, augmented with references and links to recent economic and political developments in the real world that mirror events in the book.

If you’re liberty-minded and haven’t read the book, the post will give you an idea of why your friends keep urging you to read it along with a little taste of what awaits you.

If you’re an anti-capitalist, anti-liberty “Progressive” (but I repeat myself…) who hasn’t read it, the post won’t stop you from ignorantly ridiculing others who have read and enjoyed the book, but it might give you an unsettling inkling of why they find it increasingly relevant today.  (On the other hand, those “Progressives” who have read the book and understood it, and are “Progressives” despite this and persist regardless in ridiculing the book and its fans, are beyond reach and are not going to get anything out of the post.)

[via Rand Simberg]

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