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Excerpt: John Galt's speech

Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 6 months ago to The Gulch: General
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I have been listening to AS and I am up to John Galts speech. I found this part to be particularly prescient.

“This country-the product of reason-could not survive on the morality of sacrifice. It was not built by men who sought self-immolation or by men who sought handouts. It could not stand on the mystic split that divorced man’s soul from his body. It could not live by the mystic doctrine that damned this earth as evil and those who succeeded on earth as depraved. From its start, this country was a threat to the ancient rule of mystics. In the brilliant rocket-explosion of its youth, this country displayed to an incredulous world what greatness was possible to man, what happiness was possible on earth. It was one or the other: America or mystics. The mystics knew it; you didn’t. You let them infect you with the worship of need-and this country became a giant in body with a mooching midget in place of its soul, while its living soul was driven underground to labor and feed you in silence, unnamed, unhonored, negated, its soul and hero: the industrialist.

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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the focus then is on unleashing the potential as something positive. To make that sort of positive change will require assuming or re-assuming control. The three alternatives are leave, accept, or use ballots as bullets that leads to the fourth step.

    The biggest best weapon available is the military those who are still loyal and reminding of the fact of their oath of office and mention how they are being treated despicably most recently in their paychecks and future retirement checks.

    It doesn't take tanks in the streets. These bozos are very open to a take down without violating a single law. Not even the Secret Service will object. But they won't move without support from the population. Right now they are none to sure about the general population.

    Sorry I'm not about to give the other side the juicy tidbits..
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Prior to all documents were written The United States of America are. Afterwards The United States of America is. The Federalists having won the war got to write the history and the rest of it. The only real point is that Lincoln was the first to suspend civil rights and the Constitution followed by if memory serves Wilson, Roosevelt and everyone that followed all left wing all socialist all fascist and all still in charge. The only major change recently is establishing the one party system and admitting to being openly socialist. The rest is machs nichts since nothing is being done about it except talk talk talk.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 6 months ago
    When I ran a retail business, not a week went by that someone while trying to get me to lower my prices, told me how rich I was getting. Many of them were under the impression that the mark-up on products were huge and had no concept of overhead such as taxes, rent, maintenance, salaries, plus legal and accounting fees. I often think that most Washington practitioners of politics think the same way as those customers who look only at the gross and never the bottom line.
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  • Posted by elstonc 9 years, 6 months ago
    Food for the soul. Thank you. Time for me to read, "Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal."
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  • Posted by Esceptico 9 years, 6 months ago
    Rand made a number errors, among them was in her various writings she dealt with the United States as if it were one nation from the beginning — as distinct from the thirteen independent nations which formed a compact of states. Even England, when it recognized the independence of the states in the early 1800s did so by recognizing each of the thirteen as independent countries. The concept of independence was chipped away, even by Jefferson after he became president. Prior to 1865 the phrase was “these” United States, indicting the voluntary association.

    DiLorenzo put it: “The use of the words United States in the singular did not become acceptable until after 1865, when the voluntary union of the states was overthrown by a bloody and violent revolution.”
    DiLorenzo, Thomas (2009-01-16). Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe (Kindle Locations 903-904). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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  • Posted by $ Sesabatka 9 years, 6 months ago
    Great post. Thanks for putting it out there. I needed to read something like that today. It really helped.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 6 months ago
    That's a great passage Rich. Thanks for posting it. You just reminded me that I want to grab my copy of The Virtue of Selfishness to read on the plane.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The fact that you judge someone as "brainwashed" based on a John Galt's speech shows your lack of thinking. Sometimes it feels like the enemies of the ideas in the speech are everywhere.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But is irrelevant. The fact that you thought it could even sound like nationalism shows your thinking. I quit. No more.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "CG, the fact that you could see this as nationalism shows how brain-washed you are."
    I said it's not nationalism but rather what actually happened. What's the matter with you?
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you, K. CG, the fact that you could see this as nationalism shows how brain-washed you are. You are trying to see truth, but you have a lot to overcome.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, they have the satisfaction of having hurt us, sometimes to the point of making it impossible for us to produce. Also, they want the money!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Which makes the government the number one enablers in the country. Quick somebody find Some Who May Be Offended. Making a profit off of evil makes you or they or some or it what?

    EVIL! Now go vote for them again and brand your forehead
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    Posted by khalling 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the key phrase here is "what greatness was possible to man"

    not society, not to the country, but for the individual
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 6 months ago
    "In the brilliant rocket-explosion of its youth, this country displayed to an incredulous world what greatness was possible to man, what happiness was possible on earth."
    This sounds like nationalism, but in this case it's what actually happened.
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