Galt would have been much happier not to have to do this.
Obama would be happy as a clam (are clams really all that happy?) to collapse the system.
This is what makes all the difference.
This is unlike Obama who I believe WANTS to collapse the system. But even Obama cannot collapse the system himself, he can only create a system that collapses when people ‘go Galt’.
Obama WANTS it to happen as his goal. Galt NEVER WANTED that ultimate goal, even though yes he knew it would happen.
I hope I have made my point clearer.
Like Obamacare, he was forced into a system he did not want to be a part of. So what does he do? Continue to be a slave to it?
Unlike Obama, Galt never would have set out to collapse the system on purpose.
“Galt would have been much happier not to have to do this.”
I’d be much happier if hamburgers fell from the sky like rain.
“Galt NEVER WANTED that ultimate goal, even though yes he knew it would happen.”
I cannot reconcile these ideas. Except to say that Galt regretted having to bother. But what does that amount to? He would have regretted more doing nothing, so he collapsed the system, and that is that.
I’m not very interested in a conversation about how much satisfaction Galt got out of “creative destruction.” He could have cried himself to sleep every night for all its relevance to our argument above.
“Like Obamacare, he was forced into a system he did not want to be a part of. So what does he do? Continue to be a slave to it?”
No, he stops its wheels.
“Unlike Obama, Galt never would have set out to collapse the system on purpose.”
Yes he would. He did.