I would like you to reach the place where you’re not willing to listen to people criticize one another… where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong… where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people…you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.
I found this opinion piece from an email that I for forwarded to a friend eight years ago and given the circumstances that we are living through in the macroeconomic environment I’m wondering if it’s even more appropriate now are we on the precipice?
Opinion
When will Atlas shrug?
By John Andrews
What is the breaking point? Where will the resistance form? Heavy questions, but unavoidable in the current political climate. The productive members of society can only be pushed so far, some say.
What they envision is not defiance of law or a reversal of the election. It is people's growing disengagement from a new economic order that punishes effort and rewards envy — the creepy future that Bill Ritter and Barack Obama intend for us. Columnist Michelle Malkin calls that withdrawal "going Galt."
Malkin was the first speaker last weekend when several hundred Coloradans gathered for a free-market leadership conference in Colorado Springs. Her reference was to John Galt, the individualist hero of Ayn Rand's novel, "Atlas Shrugged." She told of seeing a placard at the protest rally for Obama's stimulus bill signing that warned: "Atlas will shrug."
So what, you ask. In human behavior, incentives matter. People are choosers, not automatons. Mess them over enough and they're out of here. All history proves it. "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." That bitter joke among Soviet factory drones sums up collectivism's ultimate failure wherever tried.
Of course, in the 1950s, when Rand was writing her epic about a slow-spreading spontaneous strike among Americans fed up with big government, tomorrow supposedly belonged to New Soviet Man. Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II, the three champions of freedom who would prove otherwise, weren't yet heard of.
But we're now told that 2008, with its routine recession and its celebrity election, showed freedom is untrustworthy after all. Economic makeover via legislative intervention is the fashion fad of 2009-14, driven by D.C. Democrats under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid along with Denver Democrats under Terrance Carroll and Peter Groff. Suddenly everyone's a socialist, crows Newsweek. Suddenly the headlines mirror "Atlas Shrugged," laments the Wall Street Journal.
The novel may not be great literature. But its message of radical self-reliance has inspired millions across the decades. And the story is set right here. "We can't lose Colorado. It's our last hope," says a railroad employee at the start. A Rocky Mountain valley is the retreat from Galt that triumphs at the end.
Conference attendees at The Broadmoor, where Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute spoke after Malkin and "Atlas Shrugged" was assigned reading, weren't about to unplug Galt-style from daily life in protest against wind power, national health care, and charity-choking taxes. But they took seriously the disincentive effects against wealth creation and social comity in these and other collectivist proposals. We should, too.
As ever more people ride in the wagon and fewer are left to pull it, there will come a breaking point. Crowding taxation onto the highest earners and debt onto our kids, as President Obama proposes, invites collapse. Ignoring the constitution at will, as Gov. Bill Ritter and the spending lobby do, breeds contempt. Ruin must result.
Cold War victory taught us the power of ideas. The East crumbled when the West asserted the superiority of liberty, wakened by thinkers like F.A. Hayek with his expose of the road to serfdom and Frederic Bastiat with his ridicule of "everyone seeking to live at the expense of everyone else."
Also influential was Rand, with her capitalist commandos. Galt and Taggart's crusade was idea-powered. With moral truth they defeated the lies of something for nothing and freedom through coercion. Not even the government office of Morale Conditioner, censoring radio, could stop their entrepreneurial comeback.
Their strike against the redistributionist guilt trip was fiction. But we can shrug it off for real.
Phenomenal day at at Pacific bitcoin so many of the great bitcoin. OGS there.
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When you look out into the environment that surrounds you, and you feel appreciation for what you see, you tune yourself to the frequencies of the best of all that you are. And then, the best of All-That-Is, is all that you will see. That is how you manage your point of attraction.
“Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.”
- Andreas Antonopoulos
Trust that others are making their lives work in the way that they’re making their lives work. And just teach through the power of your example.
"Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work." Ralph Marston
I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.
Create your own book of positive aspects every day, and enjoy, how great it feels! 
You’re always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly – but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that’s the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.