John Galt Full Speech Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Who is John Galt

https://www.youtube.com ^ | Jun 24, 2016 | John Galt

[DIRTYSECRET]

Let history e the judge.

[PubliusMM]

I’ve read all her books...and very much enjoyed the trip through her mind, her (heavy) prose, and her philosophy.

I count a great deal of her Objectivism in my own world view.

Recommended!

[KarlInOhio]

I always thought that Francisco's speech was more powerful than John Galt's. That may have been because Galt's sixty page speech couldn't be taken in one gulp.

Francisco’s Money Speech

The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide– as, I think, he will.

“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other–and your time is running out.”

[bk1000]

“My daughter this past school year in 8th grade read her 1st Ayn Rand book Fountainhead for her language arts class. Only July 4th we were shopping at Books a Million and one of the books she purchased for summer reading was Atlas Shrugged.”

I couldn’t get through Fountainhead after Atlas Shrugged. It is the same book, but A.S. is better. The male character even has the same initials (Hank Rearden, Howard Rorque)

[dynoman]

Amy Peikoff is on twitter. I’ve got into huge arguments over tariffs on China. She and her followers argue that tariffs on China are bad because they interrupt “free” trade. They deprive American consumers of “cheap” goods. I say so called “free” trade with China violates the oath “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” It violates that oath because our consumption of cheap goods produced by people living in a non-free economy is asking them to live their life for us. The cheap goods are paid for by their sacrifice, a sacrifice forced on them by their government.

They cannot see it that way. I finally talked to my dad about it to see if I was nuts. He taught a course on Ayn Rand in the 70s. He agreed with me.

So I wasn’t too impressed with Amy Peikoff and her followers.

[Sans-Culotte]

Worst part of the book. I got to that part and literally put the book down for months before picking it up and finishing it.

I read it a couple of years ago. I thought the entire last third was a disaster, including the endless "speech". The build-up was great, as the world continued to decline, and people were mysteriously disappearing. There was great imagery along the way. However, I thought the payoff at the end was laughable as Galt is revealed to be the man of Ayn Rand's dreams. By the time Galt makes his speech, every point of it has already been made by other people in the story. Leftists who believe leftist dogma would never accept the common sense espoused by John Galt. Maybe there was no way to wrap up the story in a neat bow as Rand attempted. I think it should have ended like 1984, with the future simply looking more dystopian.

I really liked the premise of the book, and found the the first two thirds to be quite gripping.

[super7man]

And throw in Fredric Bastiat “The Law” for good measure. Can be read in high school or college.

[Wuli]

For the sheeple, the speech outside the context leaves them wondering - what in the hell is he talking about, because, truly, in the speech are references to facts and events persons who have not read the book know nothing about. I get the speech, even the early parts of it, BECAUSE I KNOW THE CONTEXT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.

The sheeple need an introduction that lays out the background to how the speech came about. Otherwise, the speaker remains “preaching to the choir” alone - that is we who already get it.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Fountainhead was published 14 years earlier than Atlas Shrugged.

[bk1000]

“Fountainhead was published 14 years earlier than Atlas Shrugged.”

Yes, I know, but I was given Fountainhead by a friend who found I was reading Atlas. It is the same book, but Atlas is more refined. As I had just finished Atlas I could not make it through Fountainhead.

[cuban leaf]

Your post summed up my take pretty much exactly.

The last part of the book also showed her stoicism almost as a religion. Galt was ready to chastise them if they were saving him for him, and not for their own selfish reasons. At least, that’s the way I remember it.

[litehaus]

“More people need to read this book..”

I’d be happy if every high schooler were force fed it..even if they were just forced to watch the movies....

[afterhoursarmory]

Same here. Read AS first, loved it. Hopped on to Fountainhead next. It felt the “same” in many aspects but not polished.

[gigster]

To those people who have not read Ayn Rand's non-fiction works, I say: Start at The Virtue of Selfishness. And don't be put-off by the word selfishness. you will gain a keen insight to it's meaning and practice if and after you read it.

[gigster]

To those people who have not read Ayn Rand's non-fiction works, I say: Start at The Virtue of Selfishness. And don't be put-off by the word selfishness. you will gain a keen insight to it's meaning and practice if and after you read it.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Awesome book and I loved Fransisco’s speech. A 10 page lecture I can absorb. 60 pages plus for a single speech I just can’t suspend my disbelief. If I can read a 1100 page novel, it is not the length of the read that bothered me. It was the incoherent rambling and pointlessness of the speech. Make your points already. Tells us what you are going to tell us. Then tell us. Then tell us what you told us. I already knew John Galt’s basic philosophy up to that point. It did not need to be be-labored in a 60 page speech. It was the only BAD thing in the entire novel.

[deadrock]

It went on and on...