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Atlas Shrugged Revisited
What We
Should Have Learned, but Didn't
by Dan
Elkins
©
2015 Dan Elkins
344 pages
ISBN 978-0-578-17295-8 (paperback)
Inquiries should be
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Dan Elkins
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From the Preface --
Reading Atlas Shrugged three years ago had a
profound effect on me. I couldn’t believe that a novel published in 1957
had accurately predicted what I was witnessing, firsthand, more than
half a century later. I do remember having had a somewhat similar
reaction to Robert Bork’s commentary on the nature and status of the
nation’s social decline, in his book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah
(Regan Books,1996). But while that book was a real eye-opener and truly
insightful, it was a work of nonfiction that chronicled, rather than
predicted, the conditions it addressed. Its message was
straight-forward, needing no interpretation. It explained situations
about which many or most of its readers were already aware, but in a way
that presented the documentary evidence they needed to validate the
concerns they were having about the current state of the country and of
the disturbing course it was on.
What makes Ayn Rand’s fictional work so extraordinary is
its storyline and character development. They identified and fully
described the three distinct segments of society whose moral code,
attitudes, and behavior had caused, or at least contributed to, most of
the social ills about which Judge Bork would write decades later. They
enlightened me on the nature and thinking of these groups, and how they
have unleashed the social, economic, and political forces that currently
threaten the very foundations of our Republic. I learned, through the
novel, that those who produce the world’s wealth and value are under
constant attack from these groups, who employ a vast array of tactics,
techniques, and weapons to misappropriate major portions of that wealth
and value. These three groups are the looters, who take their unearned
shares by theft, force, or intimidation—the moochers, who use guilt or
pity to extort their shares—and the mystics, who manipulate and incite
moochers, by filling their heads with all sorts of insane ideas. These
mystics also provide a cover of legitimacy for the evil actions of both
looters and moochers, while eagerly looting sizeable shares of wealth
and value for themselves.
About the Author --
Dan Elkins retired from the Unites States Navy in
September 1994, at the rank of lieutenant commander. His final four
years of active duty were spent as an instructor of resource management
at the Joint Military Intelligence College (now the National
Intelligence University) and the Joint Military Intelligence Training
Center, both in Washington, D.C. Six months after retiring, he founded
DWE Enterprises, an Alexandria, Virginia consulting firm, through which
he offered on-site training and consulting services in the management of
intelligence resources to organizations throughout the defense and
intelligence communities and the private sector. In November 2008, he
sold his training operations to the Intelligence and Security Academy,
in Reston (now Arlington), Virginia, and joined the faculty of that
institution. He did, however, retain ownership of the DWE Press, a
publishing firm he founded in 2004, for the purpose of commercially
publishing and distributing copies of the first edition of Managing
Intelligence Resources. This book was a modified and updated version
of a government publication he had authored in 1992 and subsequently
updated five times through 1997. The success of this effort warranted
the updating and publishing of the second, third, and fourth editions of
the book, in 2006, 2010, and 2014, respectively. Mr. Elkins holds a
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish (1975) and a Master of Business
Administration in Finance (1980), from Lowell State College and Lowell
University, respectively (each a predecessor of what is now the
University of Massachusetts at Lowell). In addition to the four editions
of the publication mentioned above, he is the author of three editions
each of that book’s two predecessors—Financial Management of
Intelligence Resources: A Primer and An Intelligence Resource
Manager’s Guide.
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