Atlas Shrugged clothing still creates reactions
Posted by richrobinson 7 years ago to The Gulch: General
With the cold weather here I have been wearing my Atlas Shrugged sweatshirt and hoodie recently. I am surprised how many people still react to it. Many of my customers already know I am an Ayn Rand fan. It still seems that new people come up to me each time I wear it and ask about the book and the movies. They always seem relieved to find another AS fan.
His wife is super altruistic and the book was highlighting her cognitive dissonance I suspect.
Thank goodness that their are still many American women who chose not to take the bait.
One almost thinks that humans have instincts like other animals, and its our choice to use our minds and control our actions rationally, or just be like other animals and go by instinct (emotion?).
If at first you don't succeed , try try again.
Surprisingly...she actually gave me the "thumbs up" sign, when I was half expecting to be told to take it off or turn it inside out (which I would have refused to do).
Maybe I should try an AS logo shirt, next time...
Hooray for the free market!
They "have" to regulate the large industries and utilities because they are so big that competition is too hard or "impossible".
People constantly forget that if any industry turns foul from poor leadership or greed; THEY are the ones who can create an opportunity for themselves.
For some reason they don't want just anybody deciding to start their own water company serving their neighbors, so they call it a utility and regulate it. They see something that is difficult, label it impossible and then pass laws that make it illegal to try to compete. Finally to the companies that provide the service they both protect them and strangle them.
It is a cruel cycle of thought and action that makes the general public believe that they can do nothing for themselves and need to be taken care of by people who could not make it in the real world and decide to run for office instead.
Capitilism is freedom to succeed. Too many people think they cannot because they never have been shown the tools to think for themselves.
Through conversations; I am under the impression that they believe failure is an end all destroying thing because they haven't been allowed to fail enough.
T-shirt, and wanted to try to get one; but I did not see that I could make sure beforehand that it would not me made in China, so I didn't.