WIJG hoodie and my response

Posted by richrobinson 9 years ago to The Gulch: General
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I like wearing my "Who is John Galt" gear to work. I see a lot of people and it gives them an opening to talk about the book and movies. Recently I have been wearing my hoodie and when someone acknowledges it I respond with "now available on DVD". Gets the conversation going. I have had a couple of people unaware the movies were made. A young couple had wanted to see part 3 at the theater but didn't make it so they were checking it out on Netflix. A couple of older customers familiar with the book also said the would look for it. I like talking to young people that are familiar with AS but it is clear that people passed the age of 55 or 60 are much more likely to be familiar with Rand and her work. I think we are slowly getting the word out.


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  • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
    Good work. Do you ever wear the hoodie part?
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    • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
      I ask because I imagine Galt wearing hoodie instead of a fedora as more contemporary but strangely historical -Robin Hood
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      • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years ago
        To portray JG as Robin of Locksley, said medieval would have to change his credo - from "stealing from the rich and giving to the poor" (like some sort of self-imposed welfare statist) to "repossessing from the looters and returning it to the earners and producers".
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        • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
          ah, I get to quote Ragnar this morning!
          “It is said that [Robin Hood] fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don’t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures — the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich — whom men have come to regard as a moral ideal. And this has brought us to a world where the more a man produces, the closer he comes to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey to any claimant — while in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is be in need. Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting… Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive.” Part II, Ch VII,
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        • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
          Hank Rangar in "The Pendulum of Justice" also talks about the co-opting of the original legend. The original story is about Robin robbing the government of the taxes they imposed on the people, leaving the people to starve. It is the basis of Ragnar's character
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