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Atlas on his knees
By Asif Nawaz
I haven’t written a whole lot of articles recently, owing primarily to the fact that I am putting together a new design for Asifism.com and completing an accounting and small business series of articles for the new section that goes with the new design. However, I miss publicizing how pathetic the world we live in has become, hoping invain that maybe those of us who can afford to will take a step to curb the pitiable existence or retreat from the disaster that has become society. I have previously been very critical of Britain. Cost of living, bad customer service, miserable people, etc. etc. But what has frustrated me most about this country, especially in the city of London, is the widespread level of incompetence and plain evil in the acts of the millions of people who inhabit the streets of London. For those of you who are familiar with Ayn Rand, her philosophy of objectivism, and her masterpiece Atlas Shrugged, you may agree with me when I say that it is highly likely that Ayn Rand is looking down upon those of us who have an IQ of more than 50 with a cynical smile over her face suggesting, if not saying,”I told you so.” Her depiction of the world, and in specific New York City in Atlas Shrugged, so accurately depicts the current state of affairs in present day London (and possibly the rest of the world) that it is sadly fascinating. What finally prompted me to write this article is the incident in London where an incompetent London Borough Council and its single digit IQ employees gave away a 7 bedroom GBP 12,000 per month house to a single Afghan mother with seven children with a net compensation of GBP 170,000 per year. To top all this off, the mother of 7 equated this waste of hard earned taxpayer money to winning the lottery and declaring it her right to have this house, with her probably shame of a son stating they had to turn down other houses because he needed room to park his car. Worst yet, this is a house that the Council should have been paying GBP 4,000 per month for, but because of their plain stupidity (the low IQ comes to mind here), they ended up paying some landlord GBP 12k per month. In all fairness, in a society and city where people have some form integrity, the council employees should be dragged out to make an example of, the Afghan family should moved into a 1 or 2 bed council flat (with the sons put to work) and the landlord should be made to pay the GBP 8,000+ rent plus interest back to the council for extortion. But of course, all that would happen in a society where integrity and morality were important. In London, and in the UK, apparently, they are important no more. Parliament is voting on whether parents should be allowed to slap their children. What a world! The police in this country is afraid of dealing with the children, the teachers in schools are petrified of children, and now, even the parents are not allowed to discipline them. Does anyone else see a problem here? This is supposed to be a first world country that others are supposed to look up to, yet the young and future of this country seems to lie in peril, crime, racism, and incompetence. It is true, as was seen in Atlas Shrugged, that weight of the world, or the weight of any one society, is carried by the few in that society who really know what they are doing. 99% of the people are simply coasting along, mooching off of others, fighting, stealing, simply living. It is the 1% that strive to make a difference, and it is that 1% that makes the world go round and makes sure that the economy keeps ticking and 99% of the slack is able to eat three meals a day. Today, the world has come to the point where politicians make meaningless statements in fancy language without saying anything of substance or dealing with any of the issues at hand. Take the presidential debate in the USA; it was a mere mudslinging content, and although Barrack Obama from time to time gave out some substance, ultimately, none of the important questions were dealt with. It has come to the point where politicians and people alike thing that throwing money and grandeur at a certain problem will resolve it. Pumping GBP 5 billion into the British economy will help save the banks; pumping US $ 700 billion into the US economy will help save the banks, but Ealing Council’s overspending to get someone a 7 bedroom, GBP 1.2 million is absolutely fine. It is this mockery by government, this misuse of power, the pathetic attempts by futile minds to divert the attention of the simply minded population from the issues at hand (like possible corruption at councils, etc.), that so accurately resembles Rand’s depiction of the government in Atlas Shrugged. People who were absolutely incompetent were put in positions of power and paid massive amounts of money to basically talk shit and waste taxpayer money, running the country into the ground. That’s what Ealing Council here has done. The result, in a decent society, would be that the resident’s of that particular council stop paying all Council Tax. A government that misuses the power and money given to it should be stripped of all power and money. What ultimately happens is that the people who are paying the most amount of tax withdraw themselves from that society, thereby crippling the council or government. Of course, that happens where people have shame, morality and integrity. In Ealing, apparently, they don’t. I presume there are thousands of people paying massive amounts of rent in Ealing who cannot afford to have a car, when some stupid kid has the ordacity to refuse free housing because he cannot park his car. To top it all off, these are supposed to be Muslims. Lashes then, is what such people who steal from others would deserve under Islamic Law. Maybe I haven’t gotten to the stage of withdrawal yet, but when I do, there may be nothing more entertaining than watching a society of incompetence and character flaws that struggles to survive when you can just sit back and watch. Disaster, for even something on such a small scale, if it continues to evolve, is inevitable. I’m still not sure why Council Tax makes sense in the UK. The culture of something for nothing is what has killed this country, and it seems like nobody really cares about the country. Not the government, not the citizens, not the residents. Everybody is here to make a quick buck and nobody cares about the land that feeds them. Alas, this behavior will bring Atlas to his knees, even if he was simply shrugging in Rand’s depiction of the 60s. I’m not even going to get into more details about how the financial rescue plan will or will not help the economy. At the rate of incompetence and corruption that’s currently rampant in this society and among others worldwide, I’m not sure if those who make up the Atlas in today’s world will put up with the weight of the world for too long. The lights may go out when Atlas Shrugs, but who knows what will happen when Atlas is brought to his knees.
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