"This is John Galt speaking" #8 (Second Draft)

"FORCE" (second draft) final version here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKWWrDL143Q

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

For the full novel read unabridged, visit BlackstoneAudio.com

Editor's note: Hello everyone! I got my hard drive situation remedied finally. Thanks for all your support ! Here's #8. I had to recreate it from my source materials- the original Final Cut file was corrupted. I think it turned out pretty good. It incorporates sections from two first version vids- putting them back in Ayn Rand's original order. I was able to keep more then I thought I would. I think as I go forward, more and more of the first series material will be reused. Not because I'm lazy, but because as I worked on Version 1.0 my skills were getting better and better. Aside from technical issues I'll want to fix, much of episodes 10-17 I think I'll keep.

I think this vid is an improvement over the originals for several reasons. It keeps the pace swift and brisk and the images intercutting more swiftly. I think it's got more power than the original, particularly in the clip from "Sophie's Chice". I decided that the original music from Schindler's list was too on-the-nose and was an obvious choice- and that the music was actually making the original more syrupy than harrowing. The new music is from Williams' score to "Nixon" and I like it much better.

No lack of dark images again. I'm fond of setting up stark contrasts. I went back and forth about including the two clips from the end of episode #7 but I felt the need to tie the two little girls together, however tragically.

NOTE: I've changed the last video from #9 to #10. I will be working on a new #9 this week and will upload soon. It is essentially the old episode on "Original Sin" with some updates and improvements. SO- the final order is #8 "Force", #9 "Original Sin", & #10 "Sacrifice". Looks like I will be toiling in dark vineyards for the immediate future.

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[XCowboy2]

Hello All! I Posted an alternate version of #8- Thanks for your input.

[natdavi]

i think galt's demand to choose "our work or your guns" really clashes with the Nazi demanding a mother to choose which of her children will die. I was like "why did he use that picture?" galt's ultimatum is meant for the Nazi, not the holocaust victim.

[XCowboy2]

hey Nat- I'm uploading a alternate version- so many comments are coming back negative I'm rethinking this episode. Maybe I did rush it a bit- trying to recover from the hard drive failure.

[JohnGaltAustria]

I find this episode considerably weaker than "The Destroyers, Part I". Why did you exclude footage of Hitler and the exploding swastika?

Not to mention the missing music from Schindler's List.

[XCowboy2]

Um, Hitler's still there, the exploding swastika is still there. The Schindler's list music was a bit too syrupy, but I still would have used it but the corrupted hard drive also corrupted that audio file so that the mp4 permissions wouldnt work any more. I tried all sorts of ways of capturing the music before deciding that something else might be called for. I'm disappointed after so much effort my first comment should be so negative. If others feel the same I'll consider yank it and star over.

[sjgibbs80]

Its interesting you should depict a slim woman dressed in a white sweater with shoulder length brunette hair before speaking of retaliatory violence. Co-incidence or artful selection?

[XCowboy2]

I'm not sure which image you're talking about.

[Ddvex]

@LeeFoxRox

Ayn Rand PROMOTES selfishness and egotism. I believe that is wrong. That promotes division, hate, violence, social unrest.

I believe altruism and "loving your neighbor as yourself" to be PROMOTED; not by force or coercion, but by words and persuasion. Its in the Bible!!! Rand is intelligent but not that much.

People are more charitable when they are not coerced by high taxes.

We are all in this together!!! Together we stand, divided...

[LeeFoxRox]

@Ddvex

Clearly you do not understand Rand.

She had no problem with altruism. Voluntarily taking care of those who are incapable of taking care of themselves is well within the Randian lexicon.

Altruism at the point of a gun is what Rand argued, highly intelligently, against.

If you support government taking taxes and then spending those taxes on those who have not earned them, you are an enemy of your fellow man for you are advocating the use of Force to achieve your, and other's, goals.

[shilltheshillXXX]

Who is William Hickman?

[duffh]

John Galt is not real.

[Ddvex]

Ayn Rand's vision is so different from Ludvig von Misses.

Rand believes in self love, selfishness and egotism.

Misses, although a true believer of freedom, understands better human nature; he believes in human altruism... not due to coercion, but free will.

[lachlandtait]

@Miggins88 Miggins Hitler delt with people thru force. John Galt neither proposes violence or force nor excepts force and eals with force only in retaliation of force and does not initiate it. He deals with man thru logic and reason. He excepts reality as his judge and both parties learn and prosper. Hitler dealt with people with the threat to their life if they do not obey his irrational want of worship. John Galt simply walks away if both parties can not agree. I am sorry you cannot see this.

[carlmelanson1]

It's amazing that there's really that much energy in just a few grams of Uranium.

[Miggins88]

Who is this John Galt guy? He sounds like an arrogant nazi cunt about to commit an act of genocide. Fuck him.

[jmiungerich]

i hope they don't ruin the book with this movie they're puttin together next yr

[Nintendomanwill]

I will not inflict the diseases of tax and spend on society; it harms others, it does not aid them. If I spend it to seek my profit, it hones their productivity and gives them more potential wealth-my interests is theirs, the more our subjective values are different. The division of labour makes society profit from heterogeneity.