When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt?
I don't know,but I have a niece named Dagne.
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It was a favorite book of my father and family....
Found Ayn Rand through some bumper sticker. Many college age friends in the town had seen the sticker & we ended up reading some books.
Best local enlightenment trick in the early 2000s near me. Made it easier to find others who would question things. Should have found out who owned the cars & met up. Maybe they are on this board.
Yes, everyone in my family read it too, all 6 of us
No wonder you turned out so well!
Kek.
bah - beat me to it by 17 minutes... silly
Kek.
I saw a sticker on a couple cars around the county I lived in decades ago that simply said, "Who is John Galt?"
It got dozens of us to read this books when we were college aged guys. I am so grateful for those bumper stickers & the journey it started many of us on.
I read it through the Obama years.
Every night my husband came home I would say you are not going to believe this.
It was exactly what was occurring during those eight awful years.
Now I wish I had read it again during that time. That would have been crazy. It did prepare me for the Obama years though.
It was if Obama was acting it out.