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Tell us: Who is John Galt?

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 2 months ago to Entertainment
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*** SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet read the book, you may want to skip this post. ***

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When asked "Who is John Galt?", how do you typically respond? The inventor of the motor? The man who stopped the motor of the world? The best within each of us?

We're looking for the clearest, most concise, answers to help promote the message of Atlas and the film. So Gulch... who exactly is John Galt? Submit a comment on this post with your answer or vote on the answer you think is best. The best answers just might be used on upcoming ASP3 promotional materials and, if your answer is used, you’ll get a special thanks in the credits of the film “Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?”

This is your chance to not only help spread the word about Ayn Rand and what John Galt symbolizes but also... to forever be a part of Atlas Shrugged history.

How long should your answer be? No longer than 15 seconds to say/read. Submit as many answers as you like but please submit them as individual comments.

Bring it.

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  • Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 2 months ago
    John Galt is any man who has the self confidence to view himself and his work as of value not only to himself but also to those whom he produces a product or service for that appreciates quality, dependability, durability and esthetics superior to what anyone else can provide.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 2 months ago
    I think that the best answer is: I am John Galt.

    I am a productive person. I ask nothing of my fellow man other than the ability to trade freely and fairly and ask only of that in return. I respect all, and expect the same to be shown to me but will vigorously defend myself, my rights, and my liberty against any that choose to use force upon me.

    I am John Galt.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 2 months ago
    John Galt is the soul of the rational man, whose mind and life are free to use as he sees fit. Not to become the slave of the moochers.
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  • Posted by DJL 10 years, 2 months ago
    Here are a few:

    John Galt is the manifestation of human spirit uninfluenced by the irrational.

    John Galt is a human being no greater than you or I save for his rational exile of fear.

    We live our lives on the continuum between thought and fear; at the first end of this scale lies John Galt.

    John Galt lies at the rational end of the thought-fear continuum we call existence.
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  • Posted by Thorn2000 10 years, 2 months ago
    John Galt embodies the original spirit of America. Those that forged out on their own to explore and create. In today's society he embodies the competitive spirit of a true Entrepreneur. He is;
    1. Creative
    2. Conscientious
    3. Disagreeable. (meaning he does not bend what he believes in just to appease what society thinks).

    He believes that one man can make a difference, and that it takes one brave man to be the first to stand up, say no, and stop doing what society says is the norm when that man knows the norm is not always in the right.
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  • Posted by john99 10 years, 2 months ago
    John Galt is the truth that lies within all of us; that we can become whatever we want to be and that any government that wishes to help us, only stands in our way.
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  • Posted by TheFloridian 10 years, 2 months ago
    John Galt is a free man. He values his liberty over any degree of security offered by an amoral society. He is a creator not a taker. He is a producer and looters fear him. John Galt's actions speak to those who are ready to join him. Are you?
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  • Posted by swilson1965 10 years, 2 months ago
    John Galt is the man who stops the motor of the world. He can do this with ease, because he and men and women like him are the motor of the world: They are the people of the mind.
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  • Posted by MattFranke 10 years, 2 months ago
    Who is John Galt? An ideal? A man? *He* is the ideal man, who does not accept the unearned, nor does he give it. *He* knows not of irrational fear, nor undeserved guilt, nor senseless pain. *He* obeys only the laws of nature, in order to command it; he questions the laws of man, in order to command himself. *He* is the man of the mind, of reason, of virtue. *He* is all that is good and heroic in man, the product of a free mind that is free to act. Would you like to meet him... in yourself???
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  • Posted by scorpioschild 10 years, 2 months ago
    individual responsibilites, respect of private property and individualism, freedoms, these things are John Galt
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