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Where is John Galt?
By Demosthenes | November 13, 2008
Where is John Galt? We need him more now than ever. Wake up John, it’s almost time to rear your pretty little head.
I have a proposal that might solve all of our political and economic problems. We should require that every voter read John Galt’s speech, or at least listen to it before they’re allowed to vote. Then we should give them a test to make sure they understand it. Only then should they be allowed to vote.
I know it’s a pipe dream. After all, how many voters would actually read 90 pages just to inform themselves? God knows that would be too much to ask. We only have time to listen to liberal sputum from mainstream media for 30 second sound bites.
But then, John Galt already knew of this problem. That’s why he figured out how to take over all broadcasts so that we would have to listen to it. If that’s all there is to watch on TV, the public will watch it, because we know they won’t turn it off to read.
NOTE: If you don’t know John Galt, you owe it to yourself and everyone else to read the book Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. It’s this book that is responsble for changing me from a liberal to a conservative. While I don’t subscribe to all of Ayn Rand’s ideas, she was a brilliant woman.
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November 17th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
It is my opinion it ought to be required reading in high school with an entire class dedicated to discussing the issues in that book. I read it every year. I’m about to crack it open again. I also think college professors should have to write dissertations on how they can still be Marxists after reading the works of Rand…if they even have! Maybe that should be a requirement to teaching…read RAND!
November 18th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Hey, sounds like a great new chant. Read RAND! Read RAND! Read RAND!
I can just hear it now if I approached the teachers in my daughters’ high school (yes, I have two teenage daughters) and asked them use Atlas Shrugged. They’d probably ask, “Who’s Ayn Rand?”
November 21st, 2008 at 2:00 am
Yes, everyone should read it and consider it.
Unfortunately people don’t want to hear what Galt has to say. It doesn’t make them feel “comfortable.”
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