Ayn Rand was a prophet of our times. Too many people get hung up on her personal philosophy/objectivism and fail to see the underlying point of both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; totalitarian governments are slowly, but surely, killing the human spirit and ingenuity. Look at the character Ellsworth Toohey from the fountainhead, what was his main role in society? He was the main propagandist for what today would be considered the Left. He hated Howard Roark because Roark had an individual view of the buildings he wanted to build(along with very ingenious architectural designs) while Toohey wanted all buildings built in the same fashion in order to squash the notion of individuality and beauty; in Toohey's mind the ideas of beauty should not be left to the unwashed masses but to those of an academic background, much like himself. Toohey is one of the best literary examples of what believing in critical race theory will lead to, nothing but egomania and narcissism.
The entire plot of Atlas is based around the government killing individual liberties in order to promote the greater good for the collective, thus you have all the countries of the world being turned into "Peoples Republics" that are looted en masse by the powers that be. Anyone with half a brain or a good business mind slowly remove themselves from society thus draining the workforce of motivation and intelligence, much like how DEI is causing anyone that is not in the cult to remove themselves by "quiet quitting". What happened in East Palestine, along with the Boeing airplanes losing doors in flight and lately with the Baltimore bridge collapse, are events that would have been right at home in the Atlas Shrugged universe. Rand tried to warn the world of what was coming but too many people got hung up on her Objectivism and failed to heed her warnings.
Ayn Rand was a prophet of our times. Too many people get hung up on her personal philosophy/objectivism and fail to see the underlying point of both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; totalitarian governments are slowly, but surely, killing the human spirit and ingenuity. Look at the character Ellsworth Toohey from the fountainhead, what was his main role in society? He was the main propagandist for what today would be considered the Left. He hated Howard Roark because Roark had an individual view of the buildings he wanted to build(along with very ingenious architectural designs) while Toohey wanted all buildings built in the same fashion in order to squash the notion of individuality and beauty; in Toohey's mind the ideas of beauty should not be left to the unwashed masses but to those of an academic background, much like himself. Toohey is one of the best literary examples of what believing in critical race theory will lead to, nothing but egomania and narcissism.
The entire plot of Atlas is based around the government killing individual liberties in order to promote the greater good for the collective, thus you have all the countries of the world being turned into "Peoples Republics" that are looted en masse by the powers that be. Anyone with half a brain or a good business mind slowly remove themselves from society thus draining the workforce of motivation and intelligence, much like how DEI is causing anyone that is not in the cult to remove themselves by "quiet quitting". What happened in East Palestine, along with the Boeing airplanes losing doors in flight and lately with the Baltimore bridge collapse, are events that would have been right at home in the Atlas Shrugged universe. Rand tried to warn the world of what was coming but too many people got hung up on her Objectivism and failed to heed her warnings.