Posted on 11/15/2007 5:14:16 PM PST by Noumenon
Can’t tell you offhand. Don’t have the book handy...
“Fifty years later, Rand’s scenarios are playing out before us.”
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Not yet.
None of the long overdue payback thus far, unfortunately.
We’ve yet to see the establishment of Galt’s Gulch, the exit of productive achievers from the economy, and the implosion of the talentless bureaucrats and parasites.
“Galt’s Gulch isn’t so much a place as it is a state of mind.”
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Well of course, I realize that.
The point would be, is anyone ACTIVELY implementing either Rand’s or Baugh’s strategies at the present time?
Long overdue.
Thanks for the book tip.
Let us hope that those who can have a large effect, the modern day, Reardens and Galts, are reading it.
I realize I'm preaching to the choir, but when collectivists state that individual rights are secondary to the Greater Good, they mean yours, not theirs. That doesn't mean the right to own a firearm or express an opinion, it means the right to breathe. Anyone who thinks that an exaggeration hasn't read much of the history of the 20th century.
The current production stars Henry Waxman as Wesley Mouch....
No kidding. That's the point I try to make to the 'it can't happen here' and/or the 'we'll vote them out in [whenever]' crowd. They don't understand the history of the last 150 years or so, They don't udnerstand the the pedigree of the ideas that animate the current occupiers of theWhite House. And they haven't read any of the books, white papers, essays, interviews - what have you - of the monsters who speak so blithely and OPENLY of eliminating indivdual rights, 'reducing the population' by employing monstrous means and who regard us as so much cattle to be managed and harvested.
No, they don't get it and they won't until they're looking at the world through chain link and barbed wire. Whisting past the graveyard of our Repbulic is just going to get mmost of them dead.
I’d guess most normal people have never really run into a genuine, hard-core leftist revolutionary, or perhaps couldn’t believe that he or she was serious. That’d be the only reason anyone could think Che Guevara was romantic. When Ayers said he’d “eliminate” 25 million people, he wasn’t kidding, and his pedigree runs back to Stalin: “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
History also teaches us that there's only one way to deal with these monsters.
"The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else." Gorge Bernard Shaw, "On the Rocks" (1933), Preface.
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble
Well, we can’t say that we weren’t warned or had no idea. Trouble is, our ‘educational’ institutions have gone to great lengths to ignore or suppress this information. It’s a deliberate attempt to disguise a monstrous utopian agenda.
Monsters. All of them. Pure, naked, smirking evil as Rand put it...
First class lineup of quotes, by the way. I’d love to witness the mental gymnastics and pretzel logic of some lefty trying to explain these away...
Rev. Jackson, please pick up the White courtesy phone.
It isnt in the book, which is why nobody can find it in there. It is also why it irritates me that everyone claims it is from the book when it must, instead, be a story that was inspired by the book.
I have been trying to find the producer of the short film and story, but because so many people say it is in Atlas Shrugged, I cant find the right answer to my questions. Sometimes, the internet just sucks for information.
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