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Actual Road Sign Somewhere In Colorado

Posted by $ Starwagen 9 years, 4 months ago to Politics
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  • Posted by DaveM49 9 years, 4 months ago
    Oooh....I wish I had thought of that.

    I don't know about Colorado, but in my home state, one can "Adopt A Highway" as an individual or group and have pretty much anything put on the sign, be it the name of the individual or group, or "In Memory Of", "In Honor Of", etc.

    The really neat thing about this sign is that a fair number of people have almost certainly seen it and asked: "Who is John Galt?"
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  • Posted by flanap 9 years, 4 months ago
    Whether it has validity would depend on whether John Galt would find value in it correct? Else, it could be insulting.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 4 months ago
    I am surprised there isn't some rule against a sign honoring fictional characters or some other bogus reasons to reject the message. Way to go to whomever got the sign put up.
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 4 months ago
    Absolutely priceless.
    All movies aside, I wonder if 'It' is starting.
    I wonder this because much of what Ayn and Tom Clancy predicted, has already occurred.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 4 months ago
    i looked for it in bing and the road mentioned with the sign is route 46 which runs for 17.7 miles from just north of black hawk to Golden colorado.
    that is about 200 miles from Telluride. maybe they will move it when Telluride is over run by new residents as the country desends into hell.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 4 months ago
    The road between Grand junction is route 50. it leads to Telluride otherwise referred too as Galt's Gultch. From Telluride south too Durango it is referred too as the "million dollar hyway" which you will believe once you drice it.
    The distance to Durango is about 100 miles and it is the longest one hundred miles you will drive in the USA. About 4 hours. while i have not seen the sign i strongly suspect it is on that stretch of hyway where it will be found. The section from Grand Junction to Telluride is pretty flat. Now as i think about it it could be from Ridgeway over Dallas divide to Placerville that leads into Telluride or the road from Telluride over Lizzardshead Pass. If i find out more definitive information i'll post it. .
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  • Posted by tprikryl 9 years, 4 months ago
    That is excellent. More and more people need to at least be made curious about Objectivism...and its sister political philosophy, Libertarianism.
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    • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 4 months ago
      Correction: Objectivism is a full-fledged philosophy. Libertarianism, unfortunately, is a political movement without an underlying philosophy. Libertarianism starts with "freedom" without defining it's underpinnings and ends up with anarchy. Objectivism recognizes the need for limited government. I agree that the sign is a great reminder and a mental prod for the curious.
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      • Posted by tprikryl 9 years, 4 months ago
        And Libertarianism is the political movement closest allied with Objectivism.
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        • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 4 months ago
          Guilt by association? Objectivists reject Libertarianism because of its lack of philosophical rigor.
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          • Posted by tprikryl 9 years, 4 months ago
            I would argue that Libertarianism does have an underlying philosophy -- supporting freedom until the point it infringes on another. I also believe that your claim that, "Objectivists reject Libertarianism because of its lack of philosophical rigor," cannot be ascribed to the entire population of Objectivists. It may be true for you, but some of us need to see a legitimate starting point. Libertarianism offers that possibility.
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            • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 4 months ago
              If you want to know why Ayn Rand vigorously rejected Libertarianism, review "What Can One Do?" in Philisophy: Who Needs It? and "The Anatomy of Compromise" in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal."

              Harry Binswanger clarified: "[Libertarians] ... plagarize Ayn Rand's principle that no man may initiate the use of force and treat it as a mystically revealed, out-of-context absolute... ...the crucial connection to be upheld is that between capitalism and reason. ... the "libertarians" are tying capitalism to the whim-worshiping subjectivism and chaos of anarchy. To cooperate ... is to betray capitalism, reason, and one's own future." (Q&A Dept: Anarchism, The Objectivist Forum, Aug. 1981, 12.)
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              • Posted by $ CBJ 9 years, 4 months ago
                A bunch of sweeping generalizations, complete with the appropriate buzzwords. The Libertarian Party lost most of its anarchist contingent when Murray Rothbard and many of his supporters left the party in 1989. That's 25 years ago. And libertarianism is concerned with only one branch of philosophy, which is politics. It is not and never has been promoted as a philosophy unto itself. Show me one libertarian who believes that the non-initiation-of-force principle is "mystically revealed."
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 4 months ago
    That road sign implies charitable work. Was it done in self-interest?
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    • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 4 months ago
      There is nothing wrong with charity if not sacrificial; I've been known to donate to charities that do not provide an immediate personal benefit when I see it as a long-term benefit to humanity. Donating toward conquering certain diseases, for example, may or may not eventually benefit me, but it may also benefit a future John Galt or Hank Rearden. As long as I can afford the donation I consider it an honor to do so.
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    • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 4 months ago
      the sign states it honors only 2 miles.
      i doubt it was done as a charitable contribution but to honor the name. governments like to attach them selves to anything and Colorado is no different.
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