Dear, Ayn Rand

First off, I love your book "The Romantic Manifesto." Before all else is said, you have a solid grasp of understanding art. I agree with you that Capitalism is better than Socialism. However, right now there is an excess of Capitalism, and an excess of government intrusion. People are sacrificing their liberty for the goal of obtaining wealth and status. Nobody is particularly hungry---I had just eaten a chicken dinner with some mashed potatoes and tomato salad. I have milk in my fridge and tea in my fridge---it's called green tea, and it's delicious.

Businessmen are the ones facilitating the collapse of the States. To make more money, they are subterfuging the economy to force the nation into a state of dependency on them. It might seem strange, but there's a logistics company by the name of Amazon, which threatens to enable humans to live perpetually indoors, afraid of a flu bug that's going around. And I say that without airs, there's a moderately dangerous flu that's making people sick, and the businesses are lobbying the government to keep the country perpetually shut down and in a state of panic, while they manipulate the stock market and capitalize on our fears.

There are things called "Social Networks" where people talk to one another from all around the world, and everyone is collectively banding in this or that network, and sharing opinions that are, essentially, shaping the political landscape so no one is educated on what is currently going on. The News is a corporation, that is bent on getting ratings and selling brand of opinions like deodorants. There are conspiracy theories wild, everything from Lizard People to Socialist Uprisings, to Anti-Fascist mobs who look a lot like Nazi Youth with black faces.

I agree with you that people ought to be more individualistic. But, I disagree iwth you that capitalism is completely beneficial. Right now, it's not. Men get incredibly wealthy playing the public, and profiting off of them, and destroying the smaller companies through means similar to trusts and oligopolies. Something needs to change, Ayn, and unfortunately, I don't know what that change is. There is no good solution, as all options have been tried.

I agree with you that people ought to be able to profit, they ought to be able to work, they ought to be able to have property. Those are not exclusive to Capitalism. The problem is when corporations start acting like political entities, and start arbitrating and forming their own sovereignty and laws and legal structures. There's a whole list of things that are done with employment contracts that liken the business to its own state, and defiance of that state means the inability to earn bread.

I want you to understand this. I see you are scared of the way your world is getting, but I assure you it does get worse, and the reason it does is because of profiteering. I'm assuming a war will be waged over it, to stop the country from forcing its population to acquiesce to strange corporate laws. Yes, people will end up receiving stipends, but a few corporations on the top are the likeliest to benefit from it, because they enable the civilization to stay indoors, and not go outside and do the things natural to humans. Which is work, play, eat, commune, socialize, go to church.

And no one is religious today. The problem isn't a lack of atheism, or a superfluousness of mysticism. The problem is precisely a lack of moral values. Perhaps you mean a Satanic mysticism, and not Christianity. But, the thing that can save us is Christianity at this point. People need morals. They need to understand that right and wrong exist. Right now, people have moved beyond knowledge and no truth is understood. Truth is just another product which men sell to one another. And frankly, I don't want to earn stipends either. I want to earn from my books, which are being censored by Fascists in political office who don't want my wrok to be published.

And that's what's going on.