What if Atlas Shrugged ?

Have you ever thought what would happen if the producers and creators of this world decided not to produce or create anymore? I know it’s unimaginable. But what if there was a force that made all creators down their tools. What if all the musicians, poets and writers went mum? What if there was no content to air on Netflix, national geographic, or any other channel for that matter? Picture a world with nothing as it is right now. No electricity, no communication networks. Consider a closure of every business that runs as a result of certain men and women putting an effort.

That is the case in Ayn Rand’s magnum opus work of fiction, the Atlas Shrugged, which she used to advance her theory of Objectivism, which in layman’s languages is a theory of how man should live on earth.The title Atlas Shrugged, is an adaptation of Atlas the Greek titan, who was condemned to holding up the sky in its rightful place. Sculptors and artists often represent him, with one knee on the ground, an indication of being weary, from holding up something too heavy.

Ayn Rand, created the analogy of business persons as the modern day Atlas, holding the world in its rightful place, by producing and serving the needs of people.

Times have changed, and truth be told, hunting and gathering cannot be a viable option. We are seven billion people, and not enough forests to hunt and gather. Soon, we will be 20 billion. Instead, we have created the modern day forests, the corporates, small and large businesses, a system hated by many, and understood by a few. The corporate is our current forest and probably the only way out for the ever growing humanity.

But imagine a world without that corporate world. What if one day, it crumbled because the producers were tired of ticks such as politicians, bureaucrats, and an increasingly hostile humanity towards the business community, with the former oftenly viewing the later as the problem in this world, yet the business community has offered that so called humanity, a livelihood.

People would literally eat each other. Anyway, that’s what I think, what do you think? In the meantime, grab Atlas Shrugged and see how one man was determined to make Atlas shrug. Did he succeeded? And if he did, what were the repercussions of Atlas shrugging?