Galt's Gulch
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John Galt Street Sign

Posted by $ PhilValentine 10 years, 2 months ago to Pics
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An actual street sign in Lebanon, TN.

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  • Posted by illucio 10 years, 2 months ago
    I think it´s sheer sarcasm, but only proves how great Miss Rand really is. I aspire to be the John Galt of my town, writing the sequal to Atlas Shrugged as I return from exile after an odd thirteen years and begin to fix an ill fated machine that has been utterly corrupted by the meek and the fools who believe it only takes ambition to run things, foreclosing the use of true will and knowledge they thought could be bought.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 2 months ago
    That is fantastic!! I want to live there :-)
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    • Posted by jrberts5 10 years, 2 months ago
      Trust me, you do want to live in Tennessee. I have for 53 years and during my lifetime the culture has gone from Southern, good-old-boy, slap on the back cronyism to aggressively oppressive from the right and the left.
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      • Posted by cjferraris 10 years, 2 months ago
        I grew up in Memphis during the '60s and '70s, Joined the Air Force (because there were no AF bases in Tn) and came back in the mid 90s and realized that wasn't home anymore.
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        • Posted by th34892 10 years, 2 months ago
          It doesn't matter where you are from it is really difficult to go back to what was. Both you and "home" have changed. People, places and events have pushed you apart.
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          • Posted by cjferraris 10 years, 2 months ago
            I understand that, and the radical change was mainly the early '90s when I noticed things changing for the worse.. Up until 1990, I still wanted to move back there some day, but when I went back in 1996, I suppose the change caught up with me. Landmarks were disappearing, the town seemed to become unfriendly. That's when it hit me that I couldn't go back..
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            • Posted by th34892 10 years, 2 months ago
              It wasn't just in TN that things were changing for the worse. My wife and I came back from a 5 year overseas assignment in the early 90's. The whole country was changing. PC became in vogue, attitudes were changing, it was culture shock all over again.
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      • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 2 months ago
        It's sad. Sorry to hear that, jr. It's an affliction that's taken hold everywhere, I'm afraid. :-(
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        • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 2 months ago
          If you think that was bad, the town I left in Northern California (also to go into the USAF) had an innocent air, people were friendly ("neighborly"), the cops were there to help, people (even liberals) were NOT anti-gun, and you could leave your dors unlocked at night.

          When I returned... People avoided one another and were, for the most part, hard and caustic, Firearms, while not bad, were looked at as something "thaat something should be doone about" to "protect our children", the police went from those who were there to protect to a paramilitary commando force whose rules of engagement were now "Bust heads and arrest and ask questions later"... and I watched crime on the rise.

          So it wasn't just TN that went bad, trust me!
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