Galtism: I will never live for the sake of another
Sounds like Johnny isn’t much of a family man. (Trailer trash?)
There are a lot of good things in Atlas Shrugged right up to the John Galt speech towards the end. I put the book down for a year at that point. I actually skimmed past it to finish the book. Several years later I went back and read the speech. Pretty corny.
I think Ayn had it almost right when Galt said “I will never live for the sake of another”.
It would have been much more “Christian” to say “I will never live for the sake of another against my free will.”
I figured this out when I got married. I live for my wife and children.
In the book, it was more of a rejection of anybody's right to DEMAND that you give of your life for the sake of somebody who has never done anything for you. A rejection of the assertion that the unproductive have a lien on the goods of the productive.
Phrased another way, that nobody has a right to life at somebody else's UNWILLING expense.