It’s funny what stays with you. When I was 20 I went through a very brief Ayn Rand “phase.” For those not familiar – she’s a loony tunes author and “philosopher” for whom anything that wasn’t competition and “free markets” was the slippery slope to the gulag. Google her if you want a laugh.
In one of her two big fat novels (I forget which and can’t be bothered to, well, google it) there’s a scene near the end where a railway bridge collapses. (This is because the evil socialistic government can’t organise anything at all). The bridge collapse means that food is not going to arrive by rail and, well, New York City is going to starve.
It’s a brief scene, but it stuck with me for decades, clearly.
Why do I mention it now? Well, THIS.
marchudson.net 
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