Ayn Rand the Sociologist

Daniel Davis buybuydandavis at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 19 04:59:18 CET 2011


With the Atlas Shrugged movie coming out, I've been reading Atlas Shrugged 
again. I made a strange discovery. 

Rand had fairly accurately anticipated the results of a sociological study in 
the 1980s, published in a fairly famous book titled Moral Mazes, where a 
socliologist spent years living with the savages of corporate bureaucracy, 
learning their customs, behaviors, and morals. The irrelevancy of truth, the 
shifting of blame, the feudal relationship to those higher up, the obligation to 
keep knowledge from your bosses so that they could avoid responsibility, the 
situational ethics totally contradicting everything they otherwise profess in 
life - all of it there, and fully documented in the study,

I read the study a year or so ago, but only made the connection while rereading 
Atlas Shrugged today, when, with a bit of a shock, I realized that what seemed a 
bit cartoonish and over the top in the novel was largely just what the study had 
found.

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