Terry Blanton wrote:
Inventor of a free energy engine using static electricity (fiction).
I am seeing bumper stickers with the subject title all over lately.
Can't figure out why. ;-)
People who have "Who is John Galt?" bumper stickers are devotees of the
novelist Ayn Rand. When I was young and foolish, I was infatuated with
Ms. Rand's ideas. Atheism is an integral part of her philosophy however,
and I was already rejected the idea of a godless universe when I was
exposed to her theories.
Randian Philosophy (Objectivism) is more about the celebration of self
(selfishness), and property rights, than F E machines, which are
ancillary to the story. Rand contended that the people who drive the
economic engine of the world would with draw their creative input,
resulting in economic collapse. IMHO, she got it backwards, most people
want to live well, and enjoy the other perks of business success, and
will voluntarily work very hard in order to do so. What's bringing about
the sort of economic collapse spoken of in Atlas Shrugged is the
government, rather than vice versa, as Rand contended.
Now that I think of it, some of the most successful people are big
liberals. The people behind Goggle are proof of that. I wonder which one
of us Ayn would have found more galling?
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