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Reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and I'm wondering something...
So, the old question is "Who is John Galt?" You learn the answer to this question (one that characters early in the book think is unanswerable and use as an indication of futility) about halfway through the book.
"John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by (eagles) in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains--and he withdrew his fire--until the day when men withdraw their (eagles)."
By doing this, he "stops the motor of the world." He and all of the world's greatest minds go on strike, in protest of the wrongs commited against them and the world by idiots, bureaucrats, people who seek to gain money unearned, who prey off the work of others. Parasites.
They disappear and leave the world to fall to pieces, and leave the ones destroying it to pick those pieces up.
In a world overrun with idiots, bureaucrats and parasites, I pose a new question: WHERE is John Galt? Where is the person to stop the wrong things, even if it means stopping the motor of the world? Have our Prometheans already gone?
So, the old question is "Who is John Galt?" You learn the answer to this question (one that characters early in the book think is unanswerable and use as an indication of futility) about halfway through the book.
"John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by (eagles) in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains--and he withdrew his fire--until the day when men withdraw their (eagles)."
By doing this, he "stops the motor of the world." He and all of the world's greatest minds go on strike, in protest of the wrongs commited against them and the world by idiots, bureaucrats, people who seek to gain money unearned, who prey off the work of others. Parasites.
They disappear and leave the world to fall to pieces, and leave the ones destroying it to pick those pieces up.
In a world overrun with idiots, bureaucrats and parasites, I pose a new question: WHERE is John Galt? Where is the person to stop the wrong things, even if it means stopping the motor of the world? Have our Prometheans already gone?
