Ep. 1 "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 John Williams

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[JoshuaTollon]

@vendurra It is only a flaw in the sense that so many people still have the urge and drive to make something of those talents. The decayed world of Atlas Shrugged had so oppressed that innate drive of human beings to produce and better themselves that only a few industrious people were left to endure the oppressive BS to prop up a system of leeches, thieves, and lying scum. That is why the book is called Atlas Shrugged. It is hard to use your talent when your success is punished or stolen.

[Mr99BOXER]

This book and movie is fantastic !!! Why is "Atlas Shrugged" so intune with today's "messed-up" economy and world economy? How could Ayn Rand be so prophetic? Almost everything that occured in the book is now occuring daily on our doorstep, whether it is New York, Chicago, London, Rome or Berlin. A Moral Crisis Yes ! Look at our politicians whether govenors, mayors, senators or leaders of international monetary agencies. Please do not stop our Motor !!!! God Save us !!!!

[evolutionfineart]

Hmmm. John Galt's diatribe would lend itself more to you actually writing an original piece, rather than copy one from a great writer. Just my opinion.

[420ballsmcgee]

....Who is John Galt?

[MrGchiasson]

It's the perfect storm," A corrupt & inept Washington combined with a corrupt & greedy elements of Wall Street". The Sub Prime loan programs are a scam. Many banks refused to make the loans..and were sued by ther Fed's. Politics erased reason & financial realities. John Galt's speech is painfully relevant today . We have been betrayed by greedy fools.

Producers.. go on strike!

I like money..when it is earned ethically & legally. Congress would know nothing of that.

[walperstyle]

Atheists, please stop the finger pointing at all religion based on a few. The simple problem is greed. It is us all as equals.

[spencemace]

@vendurra I agree, yet in this system there is very little alternative. I don't want to be red or blue, i just want to be with the side I feel is right. the position you describe is very interesting, but not visible from where im standing.

[vendurra]

@spencemace Both conservatives and liberals are backward, for a variety of reasons - but the main one that comes to mind is that neither of them have a coherent future oriented mindset - the result is that they both are present oriented hedonists that think only in terms of the here and now. Tea Party wants tax cuts, liberals want hand outs. I'm simplifying of course. Both liberals and conservatives are parasites that are slowly draining this nation of its vitality.

[vendurra]

@abc3m4 Yes. Those conservatives think like Mr. Santorum, who claimed that abortion was responsible for depleting the social security reserves because of all the people who could have been contributors to the trust fund have been aborted. Conservative logic makes no sense 80% of the time. I'm not going to argue that argument fully, because suffice to say it should be obvious that it is a bad argument.

[vendurra]

@mechmusician Surely something with three business degrees could make a better argument than the one you just posted. There is lots of cool knowledge they disperse in those classes, and your point is only superficial at best.

Engineers and Managers aren't the only people in the world who live by thinking. Accountants, Actuaries, Financial Experts, Architects, Real Estate Brokers, Mathematicians, etc, all live by thinking... aka using math and analysis to solve problems.

[vendurra]

@mechmusician No. I don't agree with that. But there is something everyone "ought" to know. I believe many people up top in political circles are having private discussions right now about how to deal with the upcoming "resource" crisis.

So they made a practical decision to outlaw inefficient lightbulbs, that in the long run will only stall the inevitable running out of oil & coal. Consumer waste has to be curtailed, since we are running out of resources.

[vendurra]

@mechmusician Ok. Pause for a second after what you said. "Landing on the moon didn't do anything to help America succeed." ................. (pause)

Ok. Lets look at reality now. Think of all the inventions that had to be made and advances in electronics that had to be made in order to achieve that goal. What happens when major projects like that are undertaken is that we get the phenomenon of "trickle down scientific advances", that were made in order to achieve that goal.