Ayn Rand It wasn't his real name, it was just a pseudonym that would help him write more freely. His real name was Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, Russian writer and philosopher known for her philosophical system the "Objectivism" and for writing two great literary bestsellers «The spring » y «The rebellion of Atlas ».
Today we recover her not because the years of her death are celebrated (she died of heart failure on March 6, 1982 at the age of 77 in New York), nor because of the anniversary of her birth (she was born on February 2, 1905). in Russia, specifically in the city of Saint Petersburg), but because she herself wrote the words that we will put below. It was almost 70 years ago, and almost no one believed her in her day ... Today, today, we can say that she predicted what awaited us and that she was right in everything. Judge for yourself ...
Ayn Rand prediction?
«When you notice that to produce you need to obtain authorization from those who do not produce anything; when you see that money flows to those who do not traffic in goods but in favors; when you perceive that many get rich by bribery and influence rather than by their work, and that the laws do not protect against them but, on the contrary, it is they who are protected against you; when you discover that corruption is rewarded and honesty becomes self-sacrifice, then you can affirm, without fear of being wrong, that your society is doomed.
What do you think? Words like "corruption", "bribery", "rich", "honesty", "society", "condemned", "goods", "favors" ... Doesn't that sound like anything to you? What do you think of the words of the Russian author? They were said almost 70 years ago and could well be applied to today, right now ... Would there be as much corruption then as there is now? Do you think that today's writers should "get wet" just like those of yesteryear did, who used literature and books as means of social criticism? Or did this definitely and tragically go down in history?