I’m not a Jewish supremacist, an Objectivist, or even a pure Capitalist anymore…
I don’t think that Ayn Rand was a fantastic novelist and I haven’t read all of her books.
But Israel is Galt’s Gulch and Atlas’ biggest shrug would be if the Jewish people of every country and every continent simply left the hostile cesspools of reactionary bigotry in which they’re currently drowning, and came Home.
If our innovators and creators said Thanks But No Thanks to anyone and everyone who wanted to buy or benefit from our wide variety of essential technological, medical, or ecological marvels, our breathtaking works of art, beauty, or laughter, our groundbreaking scientific research and discoveries, without recognizing our right to exist without being genocided.
I don’t hope for such isolationism. I think it’s ultimately a betrayal of our national ethic and mandate.
But still…
Just imagine a world where Jewish people actually put our own well-being first and decided to stop carrying the rest of the world forward, in every country on every continent. Tirelessly, often selflessly, and with xenophobia and contempt as the inevitable recompense.
Imagine if Atlas shrugged.