Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors -* when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you* - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence..."
Imo the attack vector is our hearts. Gods place. Money is just one way to judge how "Heart Healthy" we are; what success the destroyers are having. Ayn escaped a marxist country without escaping its marxist mind programming. AA talks about this phenomenon. Alcoholics who imagine alcohol is THE problem rather than what's happened to their minds and hearts. They leave the bars and booze behind but not the their "drinking stupid thinking". They're called dry drunks. Ayn was a dry drunk. A tragic casualty of the cult of deaths mind poisoning. She left " the Marxist bar" and renounced "Marxist booze" believing that was enough. She was mistaken. Libertarians are the result of her tragic mistake.. The fruits of her Marxist poisoned mind womb.
From Atlas Shrugged
Imo the attack vector is our hearts. Gods place. Money is just one way to judge how "Heart Healthy" we are; what success the destroyers are having. Ayn escaped a marxist country without escaping its marxist mind programming. AA talks about this phenomenon. Alcoholics who imagine alcohol is THE problem rather than what's happened to their minds and hearts. They leave the bars and booze behind but not the their "drinking stupid thinking". They're called dry drunks. Ayn was a dry drunk. A tragic casualty of the cult of deaths mind poisoning. She left " the Marxist bar" and renounced "Marxist booze" believing that was enough. She was mistaken. Libertarians are the result of her tragic mistake.. The fruits of her Marxist poisoned mind womb.