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Who Is John Galt?

Posted by khalling 9 years, 5 months ago to Culture
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check out the glow for the movies! :)


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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Will absolutely cause any life on the planet to evolve"
    I do not understand what this means. Are you saying changes in solar output are responsible for the current period of mass extinction/evolution? This is not correct. The sun's output will slowly increase over 100s of millions of years, but this will not affect human interests and is of no concern.

    "Rising energy costs. Check your utility bills."
    We've been in a period of cheap energy for decades. I think it will continue. I say that about almost any commodity or basic material. All the value is in stuff we create. I predict oil will not be a large-scale energy source in 100 years, but its price will be similar to today.

    "Technology has nothing to do with the 'globalization that he's speaking of. He's talking about globalized government."
    A global gov't and the end of the nation state as we know it is happening now because geographical barriers no longer prevent transfer of value and communication. I think different passports, currencies, and languages will fade away over a few hundred years.

    Obviously, I'm no Hari Seldon. These are my best guesses as to how history will unfold.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And everything he says in the article is more likely true than anything the climate (political) "scientists" have written or stated.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
    William Shakespeare
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  • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    those movies brought me to you. I will support them with my dying breath :) ( a little dramatic but I'm kinda like that)
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think so too. I saw a post of his earlier and commented to him that I had hope but I now eat those words. Back to not commenting on his posts.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Burning stuff on a large scale = Sol (the sun)
    Any change in the amount of 'stuff' burned in the sun certainly threatens the environment as it is today.
    Will absolutely cause any life on the planet to evolve to accommodate the changes in energy received by the planet.
    Rising energy costs. Check your utility bills.
    Technology has nothing to do with the 'globalization that he's speaking of. He's talking about globalized government.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 5 months ago
    Interesting Commentor. ++++ for the movies.
    Thanks for finding.
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  • Posted by james464 9 years, 5 months ago
    I wonder what the "Tycoons" think of God and whether His existence has any bearing on their decisions in light of a repressive gov't.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The article talks about modern political hot buttons, and the book talks about the greatness people can achieve in a free society and how it can fall apart if freedom is not protected.

    The article talks about hot buttons:
    - Condemns NASA
    - Condemns specific individuals and politicians.
    - Talks about rising energy costs (what?) and denies that burning stuff on a large scale for energy threatens the environment.
    - Says the repercussions of globalization are caused by a gang of evil people instead of technology.

    It's close to the opposite of the book.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 5 months ago
    I've been reading and re-reading AS since it came out. I never thought of Dagny as the central character of the story. But sitting back and thinking of it Dagny's character is not peripheral but does have the rest of the characters no matter how important whirling round her in various orbits. Takes some more thinking I haven't reconciled Galt to exiting center stage but then to keep it in the realm of Fiction maybe he is that mysterious vistior from the next universe over

    I'll certainly re-read AS the next time with a new point of view.

    Excellent and needed posted! Five thumbs
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  • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    nothing. I just know of him and some things he has said in the past. The article is wonderful!
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 5 months ago
    An excellent find KH. +1. I think he hits the nail right on the head. I see him less jaded than truthful.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    what I appreciate is when someone-even as jaded as the Lord here, reads the book and is stunned. sees relevance, and then thinks enough of the work to shout it to the world. even only if on WND. :)
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