She is so cool. Born and raised in the developing Western regions of the United States in the early 20th century, she learned the value of independence. She practiced as she preached, and despite her modest means created a successful career as a fiction writer and literary critic.
Her magnum opus was her only work of nonfiction, and it quickly became the beacon of the infectious ideology of freedom, ultimately earning a spot among the touchstones of Libertarian literature.
"The God of the Machine" venerates the creative capacities of humanity, and proves through logic and historical evidence how the limitation of government creates the political environment most conducive to its growth and expression.
She rocks! She uses phrases like "the age of energy" and "the human dynamo" to illustrate an elaborate and stunningly accurate metaphor comparing the release of human energy to a long-circuit energy system.
Just when you get acclimated to her comparison, she throws a curveball claiming, "This is not a figure of speech or an analogy, but a physical description of what happens." Whoa. That is what I call confidence!
Although the odd title of the book is the subject of much debate, I believe it is a reference to her uncompromising anti-fatalism. She sees collectivists as believers in a mechanistic universe propelled by a perpetual motion machine, which need not be sustained by action once the initial force has been activated.
I believe the "God of the Machine" is the human dynamo, commonly apotheosized througout the book, which she sees not as this initial force, but as the action which does sustain the survival and improvement of the human race.
I haven't actually read this entire book, but when I do I will review it on this site. Isabel is my hero.
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