God of the Machine is one of the finest books available. 👍

You do realize that Isabel Paterson, not Ayn Rand, wrote The God of the Machine. The article does close almost correctly: "If it had been left to (timid) males, nothing much would have happened. It was three women, Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand – who, with scornful side glances at the male business community, decided to rekindle a faith in an American philosophy."

It was not a matter of faith. It is true that during the 1930s and 1940s when individualism seemed dead in a world of competing collectivisms that Rose Lane Wilder, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand kept the flame alive. Of them, Rand was the most consistent philosopher. The God of the Machine is insightful, and, as noted "poetic."

In the 1950s, Paterson and Rand fell out over religion. However, as the story goes--and this speaks the errors in Paterson's personal phllosophy--it was Paterson who inspired Atlas Shrugged. After The Fountainhead many looked forward to Rand's next novel. I have an editorial from Fortune circa 1953 in which the rumor of a "business novel from Ayn Rand" is cited. Anyway, Paterson nudged Rand to get that novel out the door with "You owe it to your readers." Really? What if I quit writing? What if all producers quit... (Or so the story goes.)

Wow! Will certainly read this with a glass of beer when I can focus later. Thanks!...

ThanQ mshupe for this post. I believe that people are awakening greatly. They see the infringement against themselves by officials who don’t have their best interest in mind.
Individual rights are always first and foremost. The individual is the greatest minority and his/her rights are unalienable .
Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I actually did a stint in DeWine's Congressional office, and I learned he is the 'ultimate" politician, evreything was about appearances, staging. He seemed to choose "experts" who were incompetent at times. Education is one area where a Masters meant they knew something, when they did not. Now, he has this goofy Dr. Amy at his side who uses "ah" ever other sentence, and never knows the medical answers. Yet, he gave her the power to kill the primary voting in the 12th hour on a baisis of health! That alone assured I will never vote for him for dog catcher. Then he shut down everything, when kids would have been best in school. Now Amy says we must be "like the Chinese, and get used to masks.!!" Another expert with feet of clay, who seems unaware that masks incubate germs, and that we need open exposure to get natural immunity, or we can shelter for months, then step out and get hit with all the germs we should have built up immunity to, inlcuding COVID19. If this thing starts all over in the fall, Ohio economy will die. If it does, it is not an accident, but a planned virus drop, which I think the first was a test, as one CDC grant state, "track the spread pattern", after learning how the viurs is made. That was when they sent over half million to that lab ourside Wuhan. Fauci's organization sent three million therre. He is an "expert" we should never believe. Meanwhile Mike rambels on, with his beloved daily briefings, he always did love spotlight.

Here we're we aren't seeing a strike as oppose to an out-right revolt. My concern that if there is an out break of Covid-19 in Democrrat run states that these liberal governors will try to close them down again will that blow up in their faces?

Reading this - a recurring thought pops into my head. "I'm simply not going to comply." Ever get that thought? Sure, the Machine seems omnipotent, omnipresent. But, what I see are people in costumes with guns and not much else. Maybe I'll comply. Maybe not...