Lessons from John Galt
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Lessons from John Galt
by Cato Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:54 pm
This is a part of a peice called "Lessons from John Galt". John Galt is the hero in Ayn Rand's work "Atlas Shrugged." I'm reading the book now and it is scary how accurate it is to what we are seeing today.
...John Galt leads a revolt by the productive class and outlines Rand’s philosophy in his 60-page radio address. Here, he explains how human beings—alone among life forms—can choose to be mindless:
A living entity that regarded its means of survival as evil, would not survive. A plant that struggled to mangle its roots, a bird that fought to break its wings would not remain for long in the existence they affronted. But the history of man has been a struggle to deny and destroy the mind.
Sad to say, for a movement powered by the mindlessness, there is plenty of fuel to sustain “hope and change”:
• Who but the mindless can believe that government run health care will reduce costs and improve care while covering more people?
• Who but the mindless can believe that this President is now serious about reducing the deficit after shattering spending records during his first year?
• Who but the mindless can take seriously the sham “jobs summit” held by a President whose every policy is a lesson in job destruction?
• Who but the mindless can believe Obama’s lie that “Cash for Clunkers” which cost taxpayers $24,000 per car was successful?
• Who but the mindless would not outraged that our government has reneged on its promise pay back the unused TARP fund to taxpayers?
• Who but the mindless would not question the morality that the world’s finest health care, which has extended and improved human life in unimaginable ways—conceived and produced by countless unsung heroes in the private sector—should magically be transformed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi into a “human right”, taken over by the state and rationed out as they please?
The assault on reason by our President and Congress goes on ad infinitum. It is mindlessness that elected “hope and change” and mindlessness that sustains it...
Read more here!!!
...John Galt leads a revolt by the productive class and outlines Rand’s philosophy in his 60-page radio address. Here, he explains how human beings—alone among life forms—can choose to be mindless:
A living entity that regarded its means of survival as evil, would not survive. A plant that struggled to mangle its roots, a bird that fought to break its wings would not remain for long in the existence they affronted. But the history of man has been a struggle to deny and destroy the mind.
Sad to say, for a movement powered by the mindlessness, there is plenty of fuel to sustain “hope and change”:
• Who but the mindless can believe that government run health care will reduce costs and improve care while covering more people?
• Who but the mindless can believe that this President is now serious about reducing the deficit after shattering spending records during his first year?
• Who but the mindless can take seriously the sham “jobs summit” held by a President whose every policy is a lesson in job destruction?
• Who but the mindless can believe Obama’s lie that “Cash for Clunkers” which cost taxpayers $24,000 per car was successful?
• Who but the mindless would not outraged that our government has reneged on its promise pay back the unused TARP fund to taxpayers?
• Who but the mindless would not question the morality that the world’s finest health care, which has extended and improved human life in unimaginable ways—conceived and produced by countless unsung heroes in the private sector—should magically be transformed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi into a “human right”, taken over by the state and rationed out as they please?
The assault on reason by our President and Congress goes on ad infinitum. It is mindlessness that elected “hope and change” and mindlessness that sustains it...
Read more here!!!
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