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Portion of the John Galt speech from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.

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[ssyphilis]

if morality is for the dead gay is for the living

[Tekebo]

Could you explain that for me? Kinda lost me there.

[zeekzilch]

Ayn Rand was anti-nature and pro development and sprawl. It's the likes of Ayn Rand who bring us eye-sores like New York, Glen Canyon Dam, and shopping malls. Read her books - did any of her "heros" ever see a tree that didn't need chopping, a river that didn't need damming, or resources that didn't need extracting for the manufacture of trinkets and other simple pleasures?

[Tekebo]

Well, though I thoroughly revere her work, I'd like to say this: I do not agree with all objectivism and Rand have to offer. She wrote this novel in a different era than ours. She believed that our success should not come at the cost of another. I would think that Rand would've been an environmentalist as destroying/polluting the planet is success at the expense of others. She was a capitalist & believed in trade without government intervention. This is NOT how it works today.

[drewskione]

Thanks Tekebo.

[Tekebo]

No, thank you.

[jrainey16]

Well put Tekebo.

A man who makes money is not always a man who keeps his integrity in doing so.

A world where John Galts and Howard Roarks are able to act without restrictions would be entirely different from what we see now. They strove for beauty and quality in work (and rightfully demanded payment in return).

Sadly, there is very little of this today.

[Reckoning91101]

Ragnar Danneskjöld comes

[frozen78996587]

ignore the state and it will go away.

[sethian93]

John Galt. Atlas Shrugged is pretty exciting stuff - a scientist-inventor, stops the world through the power of his genius, by denying the world the genius it seeks to appropriate. Unfortunately, your reading and the visual aspect of the video is pathetic. I would like to see John Galt read this speech. Incidentally, for my money R. Buckminster Fuller is John Galt (though Rand would disagree with Fuller in many ways).

[asiantiger01]

Great job. Schools need to allow children to develop rational thinking instead of spoon-feeding them collectivist propaganda. Perhaps a School of Reason should be established.

[nero8289]

wow such a great speach thanks for adding it on here