Is it you? Is it me? Some day Americans will know, thanks to Barack Obama. Find out here.
The world will change when you are ready to pronounce this oath:
I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.
Update: You really need to read Atlas Shrugged to know and understand who John Galt really is. If you don’t have time, you can read the shortened version of his speech here.
I first encountered Rand at 14; that was (Oh my!) 42 years ago!! I just this week picked up the 35th anniversary edition of her Atlas Shrugged, perhaps having a premonition about the results of this election. In any event, it’s long past time to read the book again. Too bad it’s not required reading in Freshman college courses…
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You. are. going. tobesoscared!! I let years pass between, too (three times) and at the moment I’m a little too terrified to read it again. Good luck with that!
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I first read Ayn Rand in high school. I was questioning religion at the time and I give her all credit in steering me toward the rational morality I have adhered to for 45 years. I came to reject her political and economic thought, but her philosophy of individualism and high morality has been my guiding principle throughout my life.
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When I was in high school and college I could not read long books. I would dog ear the page and come back and read the page over again and never get anywhere. Then came Post-it notes, and I could read a line or paragraph at a time and was able read War and Peace and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I started writing poetry very slowly (it would take 6 months to write a poem). Then came the internet and spell check. The process speeded up to only a week to write a poem. I posted several poems on a conservative website (jollyroger.com) and was introduced to Ayn Rand there. I had never heard of her before then. Long books didn’t bother me after Post-it notes so I took my yellow highlighter and Post-it notes and started in on The Fountainhead. After the first reading I had highlighted the important memorable parts (about 1/3rd of the book). The second time through I highlighted another 1/3rd, and I guess if I read it a third time the whole book will be highlighted. By now I have read all of her books and seen the movie The Fountainhead. I especially enjoyed Atlas Shrugged.
John Galt paid me $10,000,000 not to publish my second book titled, The Conservative Poet, and Steven Mallory was the first to call me Dr. Newton and congratulate me on my Doctorial Dissertation titled, though no university has granted the honorary degree yet.
I have used quotations from Ayn Rand as epigrams for a number of my poems, and she is very popular with the “Tea Party” crowd across the nation.
Thomas Newton
Conservative Poet
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Is there an HTML checker?
Doctorial Dissertation titled, Information Expansion Techniques for the Shakespearean Sonnet,
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Forests and Trees.
The concept that those who are productive and supporting those who aren’t just might take steps to lessen the burden is the key.
This is not unlawful. It is taking a tax deduction to the next step: A Tax Reduction.
This upsets those in power who need the revenue to give those who don’t work for it it keep getting voted into office. After all: everyone votes for a pay raise…especially their own.
The socialists will take our rejection of supporting deadbeats and twist it to be a heartless disregard for those who, in fact, need assistance.
ON top of this they add in a good dose of class warfare and you get the spin that currently is calling your average taxpayer either “rich” or should they be conservative “extreme.”
Interesting how they are so generous and caring with other people’s money.
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Cry me a river. If the Ayn Rand clones want to march off a cliff like lemmings following the mythical John Galt then so be it. I think we’d probably be better off without them anyway. I’m stunned that anyone over the age of 15 would find Rand’s work enlightening in any way. She simply revived philosophy from thousands of years ago and disregarded all that we have learned from then until now. At least Atlas Shrugged is in the fiction section where it belongs. The people that actually produce anything material in our society are unionized and a lot of R&D comes directly from the university system. Good luck getting them to join your cause. If the CEO’s of the banks “went Galt” I don’t think many people would miss them. I find it impossibely naive to believe that anyone would think a healthy democratic society cand withstand the wealth consolidation that we have seen in the past 30 years. Maybe you can all go to Texas where they want to secede anyway.
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I think that if all the egineers and military went Galt it would make more of an impact.
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