Comments on: Who is John Galt? http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/03/18/who-is-john-galt/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: KipEsquire http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/03/18/who-is-john-galt/#comment-64304 KipEsquire Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:48:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=4596#comment-64304 “What Galt does in Atlas Shrugged is much more radical: going on strike by refusing to produce anything for the benefit of society. Galt seeks out other high achievers and convinces them to do the same and help him build a society of their own.”

Yes, but there’s another, more important part of Atlas Shrugged that is totally ignored by the right-wing nutjobs: the fact that society was making it (literally) impossible to produce, even if Galt and those like him were perfectly willing to be constrained, exploited and denounced.

This is essentially the whole point of the story: Not “Galt v. Thompson & Mouch” but “Galt v. Dagny and Hank.”

That point is utterly lost on Malkin and her illiterate cohort (and, yes, Colbert too).

]]> By: Richard http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/03/18/who-is-john-galt/#comment-64296 Richard Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:01:10 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=4596#comment-64296 Hi- thanks for including my videos! You might want to post version 2.0 of the Galt Series which is a work in progress. The original series is pretty rough is spots. The new series begins here:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4BE5E347A6222400

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