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To: dr_who

Has anyone here ever had to work for an idiot like this one? Come to think of it, eventually everyone will be working for this very idiot.


Not me. FUBO!!

Who is John Galt?


188 posted on 06/07/2010 8:23:08 PM PDT by unkus
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To: unkus
Who is John Galt?

You prolly already know - but for those who don't:

John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although he is absent from much of the text, he is the subject of the novel's often repeated question, "Who is John Galt?", and the quest to discover the answer.

As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator and inventor who symbolizes the power of the individual capitalist. He serves as an idealistic counterpoint to the social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces the stifling mediocrity and egalitarianism of socialistic idealism. In this popular mass ideology, the industrialists of America were a metaphorical Atlas of Greek mythology, holding up the world, whom Galt convinces to "shrug," by refusing to lend their productive genius to the regime any longer.

203 posted on 06/07/2010 8:39:01 PM PDT by Lmo56
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