If Detroit is Starnesville, Who is John Galt?
Posted by JustinLesniewski 10 years, 9 months ago to Entertainment
You may have heard the recent rumblings about Detroit’s bankruptcy.
“What happened is right out of Atlas Shrugged”
or
“Detroit is Starnesville.”
***SPOILER ALERT***
Starnesville was, as Daniel Hannan told us in the Telegraph on July 21st (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/daniel...), “a Mid-Western town in Ayn Rand’s dystopian novel, Atlas Shrugged. Starnesville had been home to the great Twentieth Century Motor Company, but declined as a result of socialism.” But did you know there’s much more to the story?
In the novel Atlas Shrugged and the motion picture trilogy produced by John Aglialoro, Starnesville is one beat in a larger narrative about John Galt and his strike of the men of the mind. The Twentieth Century Motor Company and its home of Starnesville demonstrate not just what socialism does, but how it comes to be. As the workers at the company saw the fruits of their labor go to the neediest, they didn’t stop working. They refocused their energy on proving that they were the neediest and thus most deserving of the company’s earnings.
Aglialoro brought Atlas Shrugged to the screen in 2011 when he released Part 1. A year later he released Part 2. In that film the story of Starnesville is recounted as former Twentieth Century Motor Company employee Jeff Allen tells heroine Dagny Taggart of his employer's final days and the event that hastened their demise—a strike started by a young engineer named John Galt. Galt, it would appear, understands why Detroit went bankrupt and has been withholding the answer from Dagny and other businessmen and women like her.
In 2014, Galt will finally let Dagny and us in on his secret as Aglialoro releases the third and final part of his Atlas Shrugged trilogy--and it’s about much more than Detroit, Starnesville, Ford, or The Twentieth Century Motor Company. It’s about the motor of the entire world and why it was right for John Galt to let it stop.
“What happened is right out of Atlas Shrugged”
or
“Detroit is Starnesville.”
***SPOILER ALERT***
Starnesville was, as Daniel Hannan told us in the Telegraph on July 21st (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/daniel...), “a Mid-Western town in Ayn Rand’s dystopian novel, Atlas Shrugged. Starnesville had been home to the great Twentieth Century Motor Company, but declined as a result of socialism.” But did you know there’s much more to the story?
In the novel Atlas Shrugged and the motion picture trilogy produced by John Aglialoro, Starnesville is one beat in a larger narrative about John Galt and his strike of the men of the mind. The Twentieth Century Motor Company and its home of Starnesville demonstrate not just what socialism does, but how it comes to be. As the workers at the company saw the fruits of their labor go to the neediest, they didn’t stop working. They refocused their energy on proving that they were the neediest and thus most deserving of the company’s earnings.
Aglialoro brought Atlas Shrugged to the screen in 2011 when he released Part 1. A year later he released Part 2. In that film the story of Starnesville is recounted as former Twentieth Century Motor Company employee Jeff Allen tells heroine Dagny Taggart of his employer's final days and the event that hastened their demise—a strike started by a young engineer named John Galt. Galt, it would appear, understands why Detroit went bankrupt and has been withholding the answer from Dagny and other businessmen and women like her.
In 2014, Galt will finally let Dagny and us in on his secret as Aglialoro releases the third and final part of his Atlas Shrugged trilogy--and it’s about much more than Detroit, Starnesville, Ford, or The Twentieth Century Motor Company. It’s about the motor of the entire world and why it was right for John Galt to let it stop.
In the case of Detroit, both racism and fascism contributed to its decline. The at-large city council was implemented shortly after African-Americans reached a majority of the district in which they typically settled. The riot of '67 was triggered by race related police brutality.
The Fed saved Chrysler and GM.
I'm saying that there's more to the story than the unions. The unions are guilty, but there's more than that.
Also read the Bobby Ferguson, Victor Mercado, and Bernard Kilpatrick links. The De-troit Mob.
Also:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/...
for some reason it won't let me put 2 links in one box. (do NOT put that in line of the day either.)
At first glance, I thought that you said:
"thou dost post too much" ;-)
Detroit, as I mentioned previously, was using the at-large council system. This system was implemented when the African-American population would be recognized as a threat to winning a seat if standard representation by district were to be maintained. It's reasonable to conclude that a city whose muck elects the entire government will become muck. However, that decline started long before the '67 riot, and it started with Detroit Caucasians effectively disenfranchising Detroit African-Americans. That is why Detroit is the only city to not turn around.
The only other major city that was at-large was Mobile, AL, and the Supreme Court affirmed, Mobile v. Bolden '75, that the at-large system diluted the minority vote; therefore, racism is an element of Detroit's fall.
So, until the 70's, it was classic home of the brave, land of the free bigotry.
The currently hot title about this is "Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit".
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/0...