Posted on 07/25/2011 2:52:47 PM PDT by Poser
While riding my motorcycle near Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith, New Hampshire the other day, I passed an arcade center named Funspot. It is a very large enclosed building with arcade games, bowling, mini-golf and other games. The electronic sign out front advertised the games, upcoming events, etc.
The following message flashed for a brief time:
ATLAS HAS SHRUGGED immediately followed by: WHO IS JOHN GALT??
A web search indicated it has been doing that occasionally for quite some time, but it's the first time I've seen it.
Note: The link is for the Funspot web page only.
Im just quitting: A scene right out of Atlas Shrugged in Birmingham
May I just say...ever so ironically...God bless Ayn Rand.
I think she would hate you for saying that.
I’ll bet you’re right...LOL
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing-you who dread knowledge-I am the man who will now tell you. The chief engineer was the only one able to move; he ran to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty; the speaker had not chosen to be seen. Only his voice filled the airways of the country-of the world, thought the chief engineer-sounding as if he were speaking here, in this room, not to a group, but to one man; it was not the tone of addressing a meeting, but the tone of addressing a mind.
http://amberandchaos.com/?page_id=106
2 minute speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiJc7yxKHg
Full Speech. About 5 minutes each:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzH1o44K7y0&playnext=1&list=PLF75F588D7123BC42
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_u-U07pGA&feature=related
Part 3 and 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp-HpQRD2JA&feature=related
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv73ps1rblM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipCfhAXtUUk&feature=related
Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPV8NBJMIc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3WofhPNYM&feature=related
Part 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaR0nPW_5dk&feature=related
Part 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-4pekJRdQ&feature=related
Part 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waGgTMqv4NE&feature=related
Part 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5EgqEN2TI&feature=related
Part 13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntx_nGQ85jg&feature=related
Part 14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VllWKXmLe_I&feature=related
Part 15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8PPUZms3aQ&feature=related
Part 16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md8BQS9jGik&feature=related
Part 17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TEfBp1Actw&feature=related
More here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CJMAC78#g/u
And -- again ironically -- Ayn probably wouldn't have minded a bit.
Thanks for posting it.
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