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Where is John Galt?

Now would be a good time for someone, not unlike DJT, to play the role of John Galt. Someone to collect the greatest minds of this generation and move away from this insanity, to an island or somewhere to build their own society. Everything we enjoy was created by very few people. What would happen if they said, "Screw this, we are leaving?"

If you have never watched or read Atlas Shrugged (1957), you should. It is an interesting idea.

Now would be a good time for someone, not unlike DJT, to play the role of John Galt. Someone to collect the greatest minds of this generation and move away from this insanity, to an island or somewhere to build their own society. Everything we enjoy was created by very few people. What would happen if they said, "Screw this, we are leaving?" If you have never watched or read Atlas Shrugged (1957), you should. It is an interesting idea.

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Whether he was the “good guy” or not (and it doesn’t matter now) Trump is part of the problem, as was looking to him for answers. The best thing about him wasn’t what he, himself, brought to the table, which in sum wasn’t much, but instead what he represented (and also what the current tin horn power brokers fear most), a unity of thought behind people sick of thirty years of PC thought and the Overton Window being dragged harder and harder toward cultural (and actual) Marxism.

Today, the “Atlas” class aren’t the “titans and captains of industry,” like Zuckerbot, Jack, Bezos, and the glut of billionaires playing at being “industrialists.” Instead they’re the guys who can repair a car engine, fix home appliances, know HVAC, and can solder, write in assembly language, and know how to put their ideas to work for them.

The era of the “mind as slave” has been upon us for decades. Those who’d comprise “Galt’s Gulch” opted out of going to college and already “shrugged,” choosing instead to become plumbers and mechanics rather than enter the mines of the surveillance technocracy.

Stop waiting for Superman. Stop hoping for John Galt. Instead realize that genuinely useful people find useful people. It’s in their nature. And if you haven’t encountered them, yet, it’s because you aren’t one yourself, yet. But keep working. Keep learning. Keep growing. Keep forging bonds. Keep your mind in the present, and what you can do right now, and one day you’ll be the John Galt you seek.

That’s who John Galt is.

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I agree, John Galt is a meme, an idea. The dr that discovered penicillin would not patent it because he made it for the common good. Drug companies altered it and patented it for their profits. Brilliant people create things wonderful things to help humanity. The internet was one of those things. Google, Facebook and the others have seized something that belongs to the people. YouTubes content, that they ban at their digression, comes from the people. It is like the Libraries of Alexandria and faces the same fate.

They have become overlords because people cannot or will not walk away. We have come too far to be the fodder for fools.

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YOU are John Galt.

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I was told I would hate this story, but I loved it. I think about it all the time. Galt would be a visionary, charismatic and brilliant engineer.

Not me, maybe Elon Musk. Maybe Mars.

Edit: Chills

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I read it many years ago and just recently listened to it on audiobook. I really wish she would have cut out her weird sex scenes and she was Way too wordy at times. An entire page for what should have been two sentences. But over all I like Atlas.

But no seriously. You are John Galt. I am John Galt. If you oppose the looters and leaches and jewey communism You are John Galt.

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If you want cringy sex scenes read Heinlein LOL