Ward Dorrity
2010-04-01 22:35:43

Player Piano, huh? I’m supposed to be impressed at your pretense to literary accomplishment? God, I haven’t read Vonnegut since college, but let’s see if I remember: Vonnegut’s premise was that American industry is run by a clique of fabulously wealthy and powerful managers and engineers. The rest of us are serfs, right?

Vonnegut’s work was for the most part dark, satirical and science fiction. I can point to any number of dystopian works, all of which make good reading i nthe ‘waht-if’ category. Thing is, none of that has any resemblance to the reality of the sort of entrepreneurship and innovation that spurred the revolution in information technology or in any number of fields here in America. It’s the Marxist-socialist utopian worldview that makes reades like derf think they’ve got a purchase on some special knowledge about the way things work. About right for a naive college student. Or a collectivist monkey.

Got news for you vanguard elitist wanna-bes: no nation on earth ever taxed itself into prosperity. Ever. No empire based upon loot and slavery ever lasted. Most of them left atrocity, slaughter and impoverishment in their trajectory through history.

But don’t feel bad. I want to help you. I want to assist you in your efforts to crash this civilization. I want to assist you on your road to disaster in any way that I can. To that end,
I have already collapsed my business down to just what it takes to get my family by. I let all of my employees go over this last year. I’ve also made it plain on my website that if you are one one of 0bama’s cheerleaders, I won’t serve you. If you’re another one of those collectivist monkeys with a big fat sense of entitlement – I refuse to do business with you. I can do that. I will continue to do that. Until you all starve.

You see, Galt’s Gulch is both a state of mind and a plan of action. As Rand has said – you can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. If I’m correct, most of you won’t survive the consequences of your very bad choices.