Posted on 09/18/2021 5:03:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
We are living in a fractured nation. We have allowed an aristocracy/oligarchy and a soft form of totalitarianism. The Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Branch have allowed power to be exercised by technocrats, who want to control everything because they think they know best. They live in Capitol City while we live in the outer districts of Panem.
We have a complete lack of integrity in every facet of our government, leading to a lack of trust by the people.
A significant segment of the left and the right have given up on the Republic and its institutions.
We now have an attack on everything that makes us free. A new form of McCarthyism with the cancel culture and attack on free speech against anyone you don’t agree with. Is this what Woke is?
Where is John Galt when we need him?
Our elected officials believe they live by a different set of rules and laws. Just think Met Gala. And don’t think for a minute that they don’t use every tax break they can regardless of whether they are a Democrat or Republican. Almost of them are one percenters. They vote themselves pay raises, better health care than we who elected them have, free travel on our dime, and perks fitting kings and queens. And we tolerate it as long as our side wins. We are foolish
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He has stated the obvious, and it is well stated.
I’ve been making The Hunger Games parallels to my co-workers for years. What amazes me is that there are people who can watch a movie like Hunger Games (or read the book) and NOT see any allegory in it. People completely void of the ability to go deeper than ‘It’s just a movie’, ‘It’s just a book’, ‘It’s just entertainment’.
John Galt? Where is John Galt?
John Galt is a fictionalized character in a very long and dry fiction novel.
The federal government is out of control and SCOTUS rules by judicial fiat. One rule for them, other rules for us commoners. Divided society is right.
And…today I learned a new word! “Allegory”. Thanks!
Today’s children who are going to make the decision to get rid of the elderly. “They are a burden to society” they will say.
In the 60’s and 70’s I remember listening to the whiny hippies and saying I do not agree with them but I will defend to the death their right to say it. Now, they are the ones in power and do they return the favor? No, now they will cancel your free speech.
This new generation-after Row v Wade-devalues life and they will end yours without a thought of regret. Are they enlightened or are they criminals.
I’ve tried to explain to dates that zombies and zombie movies are allegorical - they’re just a character, a literary device used to represent the collapse of society. Zombies aren’t real, but societal collapse is.
I’m usually met with a “Huh?”
But many think they are John Galt.
Today’s children? Are you kidding me?
Baby boomers abandoned their parent in nursing homes ages ago. They are too “busy” and important to have their parents live with them. They “had” to move across the country for their job—leaving mom and dad to live out their old age with a Jamaican nurse.
No, suggesting this is a new thing is disingenuous. Go spend a day visiting any skilled nursing facility and look at the old folks who haven’t seen their kids in a year.
We live in a society in which the people in authority know they can violate the law at will.
“We are living in a fractured nation”
And the chance that division will ever be healed is between zero and nil. It isn’t going to happen.
I don’t think the author read it.
All John Galt does is LEAVE. It’s pointless to ask WHERE he is. He does get others to leave, too.
The book is long, as you say. Rand has some mistakes, but I will give her credit for her observations on human nature. If this virus/vaccine isn’t the “harmonizer”, I don’t know what is.
When those movies first came out I told people they are cautionary tales (and I was surprised Hollywood even made them).
Some looked back at me with blank stares.
Agree. Good article.
I wonder if the question was:
‘Who is presently most like John Galt?’
What the responses would be?
I would need the Cliff Notes to even begin to answer that rhetorical question.
We allowed them to put the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia in office in direct violation of the Constitution.
Why would they feel compelled to honor it?
It all started with the foolish rush to glow-bull-ism in the late 20th century.
To what end? They would piss all over it like they piss all over the rest of them.
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