"THIS IS JOHN GALT SPEAKING"
Second edition (v 2.0) of an ongoing project to visualize Galt's Speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand using images and video from current events. NOTE: These videos ...
"THIS IS JOHN GALT SPEAKING"
Second edition (v 2.0) of an ongoing project to visualize Galt's Speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand using images and video from current events. NOTE: These videos do not purport to be definitive or authoritative. Ayn Rand is not responsible for any unintentional misrepresentations created by my editing. If these videos interest you, please visit the Ayn Rand Institute (www.AynRand.com)for more.
Text by Ayn Rand Read by Christopher Hurt Edited for YouTube by XCowboy2 Music by Dominick Argento and John Williams
For the full novel read unabridged, visit BlackstoneAudio.com
Editor's note: Hello everyone! Wishing you all a great beginning to the holiday season. Kicking it off with the first episode of Volume Two of my John Galt series!
Prior to this series of releases, I have rough drafted episodes 1 - 17. The first few episodes were VERY rough, as I was new to the process, still learning, and I was only doing the project as a one-off for fun. Over the course of the past year, though, I've been reading the papers and seeing how urgently needed Galt's ideas and ideals are in today's world. I've become much more serious about spreading Objectivist ideas as best I can, and so making this visualization of Galt's speech has become my passion and my joy.
I am re-making the series from beginning to end, concentrating on technical issues and cleaning up any potentially confusing marriages of image and word. It's a long laborious process- I'm one guy trolling the internet for footage and splicing it together on my computer- thank you for your continued interest and enthusiasm.
I believe that every single one of us can, through individual action, make differences in this world. I think of it as being a 'multiplier'. If I can effect the thinking of just 5% of the over 100,000 viewers the videos have had, that's 500 people who are more familiar with Ayn Rand's philosophy. If 1 in 100 of those people chooses to actively spread the ideas like I do, that's five more XCowboys changing minds. I encourage everyone to get involved, be optimistic, be unashamed of your convictions, and to start remaking the world one mind at a time. It has never been more urgent to speak the truth.
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I think its funny when religious nuts surf youtube trying to denounce videos like this with some bible verse thinking they actually have a chance. ... I wish the great things in life were left alone for the people who truly deserve them
From Ayn Rand's "We the Living": (from Soviet take-over of Russia)
The textile factories were Nationalized in the name of the people. In the name of the people the Banks were nationalized. Safe deposit boxes were broken open and emptied.
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I wish the great things in life were left alone for the people who truly deserve them
The Cult of Victimhood and the acheivers.
If you claim to "look out for everyone's welfare", you're almost certainly from the Victimhood group. Ie: Pelosi, 0bama, etc.
If you create things, you are an acheiver.
John Galt was an acheiver, speking to the victimhood racketeers.
The textile factories were Nationalized in the name of the people. In the name of the people the Banks were nationalized. Safe deposit boxes were broken open and emptied.
In the name of the people?