Let's Not Play Their Game

Anyone out there ever read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand? She suggests that the creators of this world will realize their visions and accomplishments are being perverted and bastardized by those with lots of power and little standards...so they retreat from the mainstream and disappear with like-minded people into their own reality...away from the power hungry, the fear mongers and those who conspire to control creators for their own twisted ends.

I would suggest that's what's happening to USA's version of democracy. Our great vision of equal opportunity and "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" has been replaced with "the American dream," brought to you by big businesses who tempt the masses with credit lines to fund your dream...until 90% of you default on your loans, and then your dream is absorbed by the big business who sold it to you in the first place.

Weird? No, it's just BIG BUSINESS. Why would they dangle the carrot in front of the consumer? Because consumers pull the plow with little gain in return.

How would we combat this? By NOT PLAYING. We have an infinite amount of opportunities and options within our own social circles and families to make our lives satisfying and abundant. When big business or government or military sees the People as "masses of numbers" instead of individual lives who matter, the temptation is to treat them as numbers in an amoral perspective that leads to an uncaring nature revolving around gain at whatever the cost, meaning: if we play their game, we will be treated as cattle, moving from pen to pen, being milked and prodded all the way to the slaughter house.

Let's stop playing their game, and let's begin our own.

What do you want to play?

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Atlas Shrugged
• Ayn Rand
• The American Dream
• The Creators
• the second handers

[JonathanToth]

@19or50

True, change is hard, so regardless, people have to want something new...it might be about that time.

[19or50]

consumers dont pull the cart if someone invents somthing that everybody whants. i agree we ard divided

[JonathanToth]

I play this way: barter systems (tax free), alternate media (to find actual news), favor banks (bank free), internet radio (choice), peace (military free) and finding like-minded people (lie free).