Ayn Rand was WRONG

I realize GM and Chrysler particularly hardly deserve any protection, considering their bad behavior, but think of the workers. Evidently, there's an insoluble problem in our culture; an exaggerated sense of "rugged individualism" that has metasthesized into a kind of pathological selfishness. Not to mention the ritualized, institutionalized war-mongering that has led us to the kind of situation Rome experienced before the Fall. Rejoice, if you want, in the end of the North American Empire. But first consider who will be the primary victims.
The downfall of newspapers around the world has been especially bad here, worse than in Europe. Hardly a coincidence, and much of the blame has to be placed on bad business decisions and self-censorship by editors at the behest of big money. "News" about the travails of the Green Bay Packers does NOT belong on the front page. So it's not just the recent preeminence of the internet that's to blame for the end of American Journalism as we've known it. And the Blogosphere, while certainly exiting, has its own pitfalls. Ayn Rand was WRONG, on so many levels.