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Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve: Alan Greenspan is Dead. He Just Didn't Understand Economics. What Worked in Ayn Rand's Fiction Book Failed in Real Life...

This quote stems from his testimony to Congress regarding the devastating 2008 financial crisis.


Facing heavy scrutiny over his free-market ideology and deregulation policies, the former Federal Reserve Chair stated:

"Something which looked to be a very solid edifice, and indeed a critical pillar to market competition and free markets, did break down. And I think that, as I said, shocked me. I still do not fully understand why it happened."


Trillions of Dollars Lost... 

Alan Greenspan Federal Reserve chair and total mindless vegetable




How to Make a Molotov Cocktail - a Flaming Alcoholic Beverage!

Two Shots of Vodka, a Cup of Hot Coffee and a Shot of Benedictine. Light it on Fire... 

Speaking of Flames and Smoke...

 Ukraine Fuel Depot on Fire... 
Many Tanks Not Burning Yet... 
Massive Clouds of Black Smoke...
Ukraine Fuel Depot on Fire 3/26/2022
Ukraine Fuel Depot on Fire 3/26/2022

Ukraine Fuel Depot on Fire ground view
Ukraine Fuel Depot on Fire
Huge Clouds of Black Smoke.

Ukraine Fuel Depot on Fire - Russian Rocket Attack
Ukraine: Fuel Depot on Fire
Russian Rocket Attack

and I kept on thinking about the Air Pollution Downwind... People Coughing and Choking for Maybe a Hundred Miles... If it burns for Days...
So Far Only a Few Tanks are on Fire...
What If They All Blow UP?

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and on a different subject... 

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What If all the People that Actually Do Things Went on Strike? What If The Mothers, The Carpenters, The Grocery Store Clerks, The Farmers, The Truck Drivers, The Nurses... ALL WALKED OUT? 

What if the Corporate CEOs, The Investment Bankers, The Lawyers, The Politicians, The Tenured College Professors, The Police HAD TO RUN SOCIETY BY THEMSELVES? 

Basically the Ayn Rand Story but based in REALITY... Atlas Shrugged...  

hexagonner by gvan42

and on FaceBORG: JB Said in response to this meme...
sixties FaceBORG Meme

There were no great new ideas in the 1960s! They were just recycled old cast-off ones from earlier eras that had failed! The "pill" brought on "free love" which was the big push toward the moral decline we are in today! Society needs moral standards to hold it together. The 60's were about casting off moral standards in favor of if-it-feels-good-do-it! We've now had several generations of people grow up with no moral compass and it shows in our disintegrating society!

CC Echoed the Concept:  it started way before the 60’s how about the turn of the century which led to prohibition. Society cast off morals like old clothes look at the Roman Empire. Can’t blame one generation of people.

and I replied: and there was 15 years of Peace following the End of the Vietnam War... and The USA Never Forced people to Go Fight as Soldiers Again... GEE, That was a Pretty GREAT IDEA from the 1960s... Totally Reduced the number of Americans Dying from BOGUS Wars!
AWAKEN! Reality Exists!

Chart - Military Deaths from each US War - DOD Data - Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

and then I Posted: The MUSIC Was Great. It was all that LSD and Marijuana that Inspired the Beatles, Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead... Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, Santana, Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Donovan... Country Joe and the Fish!
But the Censors Declined to Post it!

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KQ Said: Most people are ignorant of the fact that mainstream media is heavily sponsored by big, toxic-producing, junk food and drug producers! Ads for junk foods and pharmaceuticals permeate TV and the Internet which should be against the law, as in other countries.

I replied: Since I always turn the sound off during Commercials... I have plenty of time to read the fine print at the bottom of the screen... I'm outraged by the side effects and SOME DRUGS proudly announce that there is a habit forming danger for their Anti Sleeping Sickness Medicine... That means: We Have Legal Speed! Go to your Doctor and Get this Methamphetamine Substitute! Coke too Expensive? We have Payment plans for our Drugs!

Just a few years ago the FDA Approved Fentanyl as a Prescription drug that Cancer Patients could use to ease the Pain while they were dying... The Thought was... They are dying, why suffer? and Don't worry about addiction... Death will be the end of their Habit... and Now Hundreds of Thousands of People are dying from Illegal Fentanyl that's made in China... Shipped to the USA - and Put into almost all Illegal Drugs... Cocaine + Fentanyl, Methamphetamine + Fentanyl, Marijuana + Fentanyl... MDMA + Fentanyl... 

It's the "Hamburger Helper" of the Illegal Drug Business... Cheap to make, Huge Profits when sold to People... 





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Great Book: "Mean Girl - Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed" - By Lisa Duggan - Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

Rand is very popular among High Tech Wizards in Silicon Valley.  They Imagine that they are the Heroic Captains of Industry written about in her books... Breaking Free from the Bonds of Labor Unions, Naysayers and The Proletariat... 

Rand was Born in St Petersburg to friends of the CZAR & Royal Family. She Moved to the USA in 1926... Soon after the Revolution where her family's Friends were Killed... 

She changed her name to Ayn Rand in order to hide her Jewish Russian origin and her Sex. She moved to Hollywood after the revolution and found work as a screenwriter for Cecil B DeMille... Her ideas were based on the Hollywood Fantasy of what Capitalism was. She wrote The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged -  Alan Greenspan was a member of the Rand CULT. She wrote a Manifesto "Individualists of the World Unite" - a Satire of the Communist Manifesto... or maybe a re-telling to fit her ideas... Rationalism is her Philosophy. 

"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind." - a Quote said by Michael Douglas in the Movie Wall Street who was playing a character based on Ivan Boesky or Michael Milken - Later they were Sent to Prison for Insider Trading... Michael Milken financed Charles Hurwitz and the Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber - and the logging of OLD GROWTH REDWOODS... Pure Evil...

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan imagines Himself as if he were a Rand Character - John Galt... Even though he is merely a Government Flak not an Entrepreneur - not an actual Capitalist. 

Her Ideas are aligned with the Libertarian Party - CATO Institute - Koch Brothers - George Mason University

The Leading Lady of Ayn Rand's Books was a White, Aryan, Tall, Thin, Blond Women... Who was a Leaders of Industry! But need a Strong Man to Dominate her. You don't need to be Freud to see that a Short, plain Jewish Woman would fantasize about the Master Race! Some say the hero was based on Frank Loyd Wright... a Heroic Architect... Who Drew Boldly! Others say Character Howard Roark was based upon a real man - a criminal - who Ayn Rand was attracted to. He felt that "I am like a State - What is Good for Me is Right" 

Oddly, My Friend Mike walked all around the Rainbow Gathering in Utah Reading Out Loud from "Atlas Shrugged" - Of Course, at the Rainbow Gathering People Do What They Want to Do. Freedom of Expression is Encouraged. Some Play the drums, guitar, Harmonica... others Dance... Others TEACH Consciousnesses Raising Workshops... Some COOK... Some HEAL... Some roll up hundreds of tobacco cigarettes (NICK AT NIGHT). To MIKE, It was walking and Reading Ayn Rand Out Loud. I guess he wanted to spread her ideas. Most of the listeners SHRUGGED!

Interviewed by Laura Flanders. on CSPAN BOOK TV

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520294776/mean-girl 

"Astute."—New York Times 


Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand’s philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neo-liberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.

BOOK TV INTERVIEW: New York University Professor Lisa Duggan talked about her book, Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, he life and political influence of the late author Ayn Rand. https://www.c-span.org/video/?461916-1/mean-girl

Why Do Ayn Rand's Grand Ideas Always Fail

I'm Looking for Information About a SUCCESSFUL LIBERTARIAN UTOPIA. a Town, a Commune... ANYTHING! I'm Writing a Book About Libertarian Ideas and It Appears That THEY ALWAYS FAIL! Please Name Names in the Comment Section Below... or Email Me gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]comThanks!

Maybe Like "Warp Drive" in Star Trek, Their Beliefs Work Great in FICTION But Never in Reality... Remember: The Unseen Hand of the Free Market CAUSED The Power Failure in Texas in 2021... Without Federal Regulation, The Power Company FAILED to Winterize Their Natural Gas Generators and DISASTER!

It would Really Suck if I Published this Book and then Found Out That Their Ideas ACTUALLY WORK!

The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise...
The residents of Colorado Springs undertook a radical experiment in government. Here’s what they got. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-springs-libertarian-experiment-america-215313/

The question libertarians just can't answer... 
If your approach is so great, why hasn’t any country anywhere in the world ever tried it?

Unlike Libertarianism, There are Many Examples of
Hippie Communes That Work and Religious Retreats.

For Example: The Farm in Tennessee 

Black Bear Ranch is an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California.

Ananda Village: 
A Spiritual Cooperative Community in the
Tradition of Paramhansa Yogananda...

LINK TO BUY THE "Make America Groovy Again" EMBROIDERED HAT:

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I'm Looking for Information About a SUCCESSFUL LIBERTARIAN UTOPIA. a Town, a Commune... ANYTHING! I'm Writing a Book About Libertarian Ideas and It Appears That THEY ALWAYS FAIL! Please Name Names in the Comment Section Below... or Email Me gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]comThanks!

Maybe Like "Warp Drive" in Star Trek, Their Beliefs Work Great in FICTION But Never in Reality... Remember: The Unseen Hand of the Free Market CAUSED The Power Failure in Texas in 2021... Without Federal Regulation, The Power Company FAILED to Winterize Their Natural Gas Generators and DISASTER!

It would Really Suck if I Published this Book and then Found Out That Their Ideas ACTUALLY WORK!


Why Do Ayn Rand's Grand Ideas Always Fail? Because They are a FICTION PLOT DEVICE not an Actual Plan for Running the World... DUH...
Why Do Ayn Rand's Grand Ideas Always Fail?
Because They are a FICTION PLOT DEVICE
not an Actual Plan for Running the World... DUH...

The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise...
The residents of Colorado Springs undertook a radical experiment in government. Here’s what they got. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-springs-libertarian-experiment-america-215313/

The question libertarians just can't answer... 
If your approach is so great, why hasn’t any country anywhere in the world ever tried it?

and on FaceBorg M Said: 
Ayn Rand was a bad writer whose ideas appeal to adolescent boys with no experience of The Real World, no knowledge of what a "straw man" argument is, and a healthy dose of magical thinking.
For example: Rand's John Galt destroyed western civilization, and then he and his followers withdrew from the world for a year. (Who did his cooking? Who did his laundry? Who supplied his vices, like tobacco?) Then he came back, surveyed the smoking rubble, and drew a dollar sign in the air to denote his true deity. Why did he suppose, after a year of economic collapse, that the dollar was worth more than toilet paper?
I like to imagine what happened next: John Galt found a hungry, ragged band of human survivors and offered them green 6"x3" pieces of toilet paper to be his servants. And the survivors killed and ate him.
Unlike Libertarianism, There are Many Examples of
Hippie Communes That Work and Religious Retreats.

For Example: The Farm in Tennessee 

Black Bear Ranch is an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California.

Ananda Village: 
A Spiritual Cooperative Community in the
Tradition of Paramhansa Yogananda...

LINK TO BUY THE "Make America Groovy Again" EMBROIDERED HAT:

"Make America Groovy Again" Embroidered Hat

My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA. 

In my reading about the Native American Church, one of the things that happens is that a person high on peyote meets Mescalito and is taught their song... then they perform it for the tribe... My experience was similar... I felt as if the woman with the coarse brown hair was Mescalita and we did perform my song...

MESCALITA (APACHE INDIAN GOD)

I MET A GIRL NAMED MESCALITA
WITH COARSE BROWN HAIR.
SHE TAUGHT ME A SONG IN A DIFFERENT KEY.
NOW I LIVE THERE.
MESCALITA, MI HIJITA.
YOU SHOWED ME HOW TO LIVE.
MY LIFE WAS FILLED WITH SORROW.
BUT NOW I CAN GIVE.

I USED TO SING IN THE KEY OF "E"
A KEY OF BLUES AND PAIN.
NOW I SING IN THE KEY OF "g"
AND I'LL NEVER GO BACK AGAIN.
MESCALITA,MI AMIGA, YOU SHOWED ME HOW TO DANCE.
MY LIFE WAS FILLED WITH SORROW.
BUT I'LL GIVE LOVE ONE MORE CHANCE.

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My Chevy Luv Mikado Truck with a Heart Painted on the Hood... Like aa American Flag! gvan42
My Chevy Luv Mikado Truck with a Heart
Painted on the Hood...
Like an American Flag! gvan42

Ayn Rand Wrote FICTION Not HISTORY. In Fact, Her Grand Ideas FAIL When Applied in REALITY. Ask Yourself: Why are There ZERO Examples of a Libertarian Utopia? No Communes... No Countries... Nothing!

Why Do Ayn Rand's Grand Ideas Always Fail?  Because Libertarianism is a FICTION PLOT DEVICE! Just Like the Teleporter in Star Trek! While BEAMING ABOARD is a Wonderful Dream, and It Solves Many Plot Dilemmas in the Stories... No One Can Actually Do IT!
Why Do Ayn Rand's Grand Ideas Always Fail? Because Libertarianism is a FICTION PLOT DEVICE! Just Like the Teleporter in Star Trek! - meme - gvan42



Unlike Libertarianism, There are Many Examples of Hippie Communes That Work and Religious Retreats.

For Example: The Farm in Tennessee 

Black Bear Ranch is an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California.

Ananda Village: 
A Spiritual Cooperative Community in the
Tradition of Paramhansa Yogananda...

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As a Nation, We Need a $2 Trillion INFRASTRUCTURE Bill. a Massive Works Project Rebuilding America... Like The WPA of the 1930s... Everything is Crumbling... Did You Notice that The Electric Power Grid in Texas Failed? Let's Put Americans To Work! 

I swam at a WPA Swimming Pool in Chico. They Dammed the Chico Creek and Made a Giant Concrete Pool... in Bidwell Park... The Federal Government Borrowed a Fortune and Created Jobs for People to Do During the Great Depression... 

I find that The Great Depression was CAUSED by The Federal Reserve Bank. They Made an Error and People Starved for a Decade... 

“Regarding the Great Depression, … we did it. We’re very sorry. … We won’t do it again.” Ben Bernanke, November 8, 2002, in a speech given at “A Conference to Honor Milton Friedman … On the Occasion of His 90th Birthday.”

In 2002, Ben Bernanke, then a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, acknowledged publicly what economists have long believed. The Federal Reserve’s mistakes contributed to the “worst economic disaster in American history”.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-depression

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [Except Blacks and Women] that they are endowed by their Creator [Named Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Thor, KRSNA, Buddha or a Thousand Other Names] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” [Unless your Pursuit uses Marijuana or Psychedelics as a Sacrament]  

DANG... So Many Exceptions! Were the Founding Fathers Racist and Sexist Pigs? Betsy Ross Can Sew a Flag While We Manly Men Go Kill Us Some Brits!

Medicare For All. Costs Less, Works Better! - meme - gvan42
Medicare For All. Costs Less, Works Better! 

Try Reality for One Week - If You Dont Like It You Can Go Back to BELIEVING LIES - meme- gvan42
Try Reality for One Week...
 If You Don't Like It You Can
Go Back to BELIEVING LIES

I was Duped says the QAnon Shaman - meme - gvan42
"I was Duped"
 says the QAnon Shaman
Don't Be Duped Yourself
#RUNAWAY From tRUMP!


OF COURSE, THERE ARE UTOPIAN TEMPORARY VILLAGES... FO EXAMPLE: 

My Journey to The Rainbow Gathering in Pennsylvania in the 1980's... Autobiography... and EPCOT in Florida, Niagara Falls, Canada...

This event really started at the Spectrum Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at a three day Grateful Dead concert. That's When I Got an Invitation to The gathering. A Card given to me by a Guy Who Believed I Was Worthy.



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