Understanding John Galt [when doctors, engineers, small business owners, etc., decide to quit]]

24thstate.com ^ | March 6, 2009

[CharlieOK1]

Hmmm, which candidate in the last election has run their own business?

You guessed it, Sarah Palin.

[MrB]

Here’s a tip -

when you get to a long winded soliloquy, mark it with one of those “sign here” flags and skip it.

After you finish the book (should take just a few sittings without the solis), go back and read those as you feel like it.

[556x45]

Why play by the rules? First, what are The Rules? If its the song they’re playing and demanding we dance to it the answer is obvious. If what we’re talking about is common decency/courtesy/sense, self discipline, self accountability etc. then I can’t see why I should compromise myself for a hand full of $$$.

[MrB]

glad someone else saw that too...

[SuperLuminal]

"Boy, he got that one right! "

Snicker bump......{:-)

[MrB]

The butler did it.. :)

[SuperLuminal]

OOps! Beat me by 28 seconds....{:-)

[SuperLuminal]

"This isn't’t a plot spoiler is it?"

If it is the first time you have read it....I don't thinks so.

Probably, IMHO, you will have to read it a couple more times to fully understand all the nuances in the "plot" or "plots".

[Eagle Forgotten]

I don’t think Sarah Palin ever ran her own business. She helped out her husband in his part-time commercial fishing business (he was also working for BP).

[Centurion2000]

If what we’re talking about is common decency/courtesy/sense, self discipline, self accountability etc. then I can’t see why I should compromise myself for a hand full of $$$.

Thank God someone else is thinking the same thing. My integrity and self-respect is worth more than money. I may be rough around the edges and make a little less, but I can look myself square in the eye every morning and like it.

[CharlieOK1]

I was under the impression she helped her husband run his fishing business. That’s more experience than any of the other boneheads.

[jellybean]

STARVE THE BEAST!

Atlas Shrugged ping!

[BubbaBasher]

Where could the American capitalist class flee to? There ain’t no place. So that basically means backlash to Obamanomics. What happens when an animal is trapped with no escape? This is why there is so much talk about a revolution. There's no where else to go.

[RabidBartender]

"I’m only 200 pages into “Atlas Shrugged”. This isn’t a plot spoiler is it?"

The dog dies in the end.

[whodathunkit]

Thanks again, jellybean.

Already left my mark tho...

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[Billthedrill]

We're discussing this sort of issue right now in the FR Book Club, whose topic is Atlas Shrugged. Could Atlas really shrug in the United States? What would it look like if he did? How would we know when it's begun? What would the average person do about it? All this and more...

;-)

[Publius]

Our First Freeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Theme
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Chain
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Top and the Bottom
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Immovable Movers
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Climax of the d’Anconias
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Non-Commercial
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Exploiters and the Exploited
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The John Galt Line

[grundle]

Yes, it has spoilers.

I hope you enjoy the book!

[tonyinv]

Thanks for this, I was thinking the same thing this morning. So many people miss the real point of Atlas. It doesn't take moving to Galt's Gulch to "go Galt". There are a million different ways to remove yourself from this mess. And your absolutely right, once principled dissent stops, they are truly screwed.

[T-Bird45]

Thank you. I will continue to read and then come back here afterwards. Thankfully I do read fairly quickly so it won’t be too long....I hope.

I love an optimist...J/K, I am also working my way through the book, tried it before in college over 30 years ago but am vowing to complete it this time. I, too, am a fast reader but it is still a lot of book with a lot of philosophy to understand behind it. Here's to success for the both of us.