Galt's Gulch

Who is John Galt is now on my car

Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 3 months ago to The Gulch: General
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I got one of those window markers and wrote "Who is John Galt? In theaters 2014" on the rear windows of my car. Hope to get some attention.

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  • Posted by jrberts5 12 years, 3 months ago
    Often, I have heard people discussing some issue, action, or thing and then reach the point where they would appeal to principle if they were thinking rationally. Having never been trained in how to think rationally or having been told they don't need principles, they give up. They say "Who knows?" I usually reply "you do, you know, if you just think about it." Then I proceed to help them identify the principle involved. I have come to view the phrase "Who knows?" as the real life equivalent of "Who is John Galt?"
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  • Posted by Susieq 12 years, 3 months ago
    You will. My Jeeps tire cover reads
    "Who is John Galt?"
    I get people all the time waving their Ayn Rand book to me, or giving me a shout and thumbs up!!! Its great to see a lot of people are aware and smart!!!
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  • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 3 months ago
    I wear a variety of WIJG sweatshirts, Rand quote shirts, and even a dollar sign necklace. It is so great when someone comes up and knows what it is all about, or expresses their agreement with Objectivism. It is also a perfect opening for sharing Rand's ideas in McD's. Nothing of any kind goes on my Camaro or Corvette, however. If someone has an issue, they will deal with me directly. not as a coward, against one of the mind's great creations..
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    • Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 3 months ago
      The shirts are great for starting a conversation. I have to say I would protect those cars too.
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      • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 3 months ago
        Thanks, I am passionate. I once did a paper on cars as works of art, which most people do not consider. They are like Rearden's buildings or Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. One thing that drives me nuts, are people who use cars as status objects, with no appreciation for the design and skill which resulted in the machine. They are glorious creations of man's ingenuity. If they go fast, all the better.
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        • Posted by $ winterwind 12 years, 3 months ago
          here's an example of what I think you mean: Lotus Europa twin cam 1972 Car Constructors Championship #29 of 30. It is designed by one person to do one thing, and do it very, very well: move 1 or 2 people [of the right size] very quickly. It does not carry luggage, there are no cup holders and it does have a mind of its own about destinations.
          no bumper stickers
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        • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago
          A lot of people must drive you nuts then. lol
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          • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 3 months ago
            The list of people who drive me nuts is quite long. We used to get status seekers in Corvette club, which was mostly real car people. They rarely came more than once or twice, once they saw we were into cars, not what they had or were. Liberals drive me nuts, also socialists, people who have no desire to learn, yuppie sophisticates (layer on layer of unreality), people who would rather live off government than work, religious zealots. I am sure there are more. I guess having lived for years in the West for years, I expect too much of people.Ohio is a hotbed of yuppies who think they are so smart but refuse to read. People who want to be on school boards but know nothing of first outcome based ed, and now Common Core, People who serve on councils and control property rights, but refuse to learn about UN Agenda 21, which will strip those rights. Some days you wonder when common sense died. Does anyone believe there is a turning point, or is it all too far gone?.
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            • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago
              That was perfect! I'm with you :) And I'm not sure, but it's been brewing for decades and now we are here with a nearly impossible task on our hands... :( Waking the dead.
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              • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 3 months ago
                I know, and no one wanted a wake up call. Over 15 years ago, our highly industrial town was adrift in TQM (total quality management), which spread to the schools. Talking with my brother, I was telling him it was a Delphi Technique type thing at best, and sounded communist. A history buff, he urged me to check out Mao's Little Red Book. It did not take a rocket scientist to see the similarities to Mao. I even wrote an article in the newspaper. Ultimately, it proved a dismal failure, being the slowest way to get anything done, with business schools abandoning it while it was being implemented here.It was also a scam, a way to make workers think they were calling the shots. At the same time, outcome based education was being put in the schools, forerunner of Common Core. Everything was going in the wrong direction. Soccer moms were not at all interested, CEOs would not read, and obviously never read history. they blundered along happily into communist territory. A few people wake up at some point, but it is a tough fight. Back then, I had hope people would wake up and turn toward reason, now, not so much.
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                • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago
                  I'm fascinated daily by the lack of interest. People's main concern is being comfortable... and that includes their thoughts too...anything resemble something uncomfortable to think about..it get's shoved in the 'denial' file. That goes for topics of discussion, book lists, current events...they just avoid ALL of it. Choosing to be in the dark...I can't wrap my head around it. People disappoint me beyond words.
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                  • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 3 months ago
                    You have expressed exactly what my friends and I have found. We try to tell them what to watch out for, and they say, happy thoughts only, no truth. They say they just cannot think about it, too depressing. The worst are the ones who don't care what the schools are doing to their own kids. They don't want to rock the boat or call attention for themselves. I was raised to question and object, after thinking, thus the nickname given by my Dad years ago, Stormi. I had colorful uncles as well with philosophies like, "Piss on the crowd, I'll walk alone", and "Be sure you're right then go ahead." At school, kids are hearing collectivist thoughts and chanting, "There is no I in team." I told my our daughter there were a lot of I's in team, or there were no brains and thus no ideas. The one that gets is is, "They can't do that, we have a Constitution." Obviously, they never heard of executive orders.
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                    • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago
                      Wow..your family sounds great and I those are some stellar quotes!
                      Piss on the crowd! I walk alone! I want that bumper sticker. :)
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                      • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 3 months ago
                        The uncles were Hestons, as in relatives of Charleton Heston. Must be genetic, or just the common sense of working men and women who lived at a time when they still remembered people like Hitler. When I was young, if I had a problem, I would go to Dad, who would listen, and then ask, "What are you going to do about it." He never doubted I knew what to do, as that is how I was raised, to be responsible and think for myself. Schools are robbing kids of that ability, it is considered unacceptable, in fact. Group think, group projects, group grades, shared school supplies, and group blame. Meanwhile, Gates will get rich because his software will be the one tracking the students and helping to brainwash them under Common Core. Somehow, producer or not, what he is doing seems evil and part of the one world, wipe out part of the population (millions) group.
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          • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 3 months ago
            Oh yeah, Lotus is fine, very fine! In my car world, cell off when in the car, just me and the car and the experience. I read a book about the psychology of driving. They said owners of such cars who go in for service, ask what it needs and if their is anything they can do. However, luxury car owners get mad that the car failed them. My babies get what they need, as they do an admirable job. Nothing on their paint, no trash in the car, and no silly add ons.
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            • Posted by $ winterwind 12 years, 3 months ago
              Actually the luxury cars are my daily drivers and touring cars. I don't understand them, so I take them to a nice man who does.
              The Loti? very, very simple. we do the work that needs doing.
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  • Posted by $ guinness222 12 years, 3 months ago
    I have the "John Galt" bumper sticker on the tailgate of my car, and I am amazed how many folks ask ""Who IS John Galt?". Appropriate answer? "Go read a book called Atlas Shrugged,....it's a secret, but you'll find him there.
    Also ENJOY folks who pull up at a light and give you the 'thumbs up',....we are out there!!
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    • Posted by $ winterwind 12 years, 3 months ago
      I have always resisted any kind of bumper sticker on my cars, mostly because I didn't want to find a window broken out, or have a shouting match in a parking lot ------- well, those days are now over. I have a white WIJG sticker on the black car [ so it looks like it's really written on the car] and black one on the white car. Bring on the argument in the parking lot!
      He who keeps silent, consents.
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  • Posted by MattFranke 12 years, 3 months ago
    I walked into the gas station to get a cup of coffee the other day wearing my WIJG t-shirt and had a young guy, barely 25, notice. He got an ear to ear grin and asked, "Does you're shirt really say, 'Who is John Galt?'" We had a brief conversation and he said he had just finished The Fountainhead. I was pleasantly surprised. I told him about the Gulch, not sure if he found it or not. Good to see a younger person who doesn't have his cranium firmly lodged in his rectum.
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