The ayn rand view of the world, or how the right demonise the notions of fairness and equality. "Atlas shrugged" for the new millennium.
The book this movie is based on was written as a parable to the idiocracy of communism. When I went to uni years ago I had a fair few Marxist lecturers. The more I read into Marxism and communism the more I find it both fanciful and horrific. The places where its been tried as way to run a society usually lead to the worst excesses of cruelty and depravity.
One of the worst examples was Kampuchea where they Khmere Rouge were crazy enough to follow Marx's belief that all people are completely equal and anyone can do any job. Any form of specialisation, education or ability possessed by an individual was wiped out.
If you let Capitalism run wild, zero regulation, would you not end up with a monopoly? A single company running the country, effectively it would become the state. Everybody works for it and it owns everything.
...wait a minute. That's communism.
Most philosophies have Socrates, Plato(communism) and Aristotle (individual freedom) as their base.
I'm of the opine that like gravity, ideas can start to form a metaphorical mass. When small they pose little danger, but as they grow they start to suck in more and more, until either 2 large masses destroy each other or one large mass destroys everything else not letting even "light" escape... in cosmology we have dark matter holding everything steady, does society have the equivalent?
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"... in cosmology we have dark matter holding everything steady, does society have the equivalent?"
Yes. It's called fear.
isn't it that the land users have the lease of the top 400mm for crops and graizing, anything below that is or can be mined for extraction and sale by the highest bidder thru a mining tenament. So what do the original owners own?
Land can be disposed of pretty much as the government likes. The state owns it (formerly the Crown) and issues title to it in "fee simple" which is as close as you can come to outright ownership. This was started by King William c 1070. He had his Doomsday book compiled listing all the property in England and said this is all mine but I'll grant you a title to it. It's a clever device that allows people to "own" property and feel free to dispose of it and trade in it much like other commodities but at the same time gives the government the legal authority to override any such ownership. Today the government exercises this authority when they resume property and when they issue mining rights. The conditions that apply to mining rights can be varied as Parliament sees fit within the law to the extent of whatever the voters will bear.
