Comments on: Going My Way? http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/03/going-my-way/ Loving this country enough to leave it / Loving this country enough to save it Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Vlad Tarasov http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/03/going-my-way/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Vlad Tarasov Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:02:58 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=153#comment-217 This is where I stand: this world we live in is a continuous perpetual struggle between the parasites and the producers. There is no singular course of action that can be taken to change this. My position is to persevere as long as I'm alive, to pursue my Happiness to the exhaustion of my ability (aka my death). Big part of my pursuit and commitment to it is truth - finding it and commiting to it. Beyond that, I refuse to subsrcribe to anyone's wars - be that the wars of any religious fanatics or that of "liberators of the opressed", or the opressors, for I feel that all of those groups are guided by parasites. Think the following over: historically, ANY AND ALL evils of statism started to materialise with mass calls for patriotism (go back to history books and read about any tyrant and oppressive regime, from Roman Empire to Nazi Germany to Soviet Russia, to...) We are now several years past these calls for Patriotism in the U.S. (and tasteless displays of flags everywhere) of 2001, and there are some other nations that are building up patriotism (among them Iran, Russia, North Korea, China - to name just a few of the most powerful ones); consider where we are being lead and what kind of weapons are now available for deployment... first, we are going to be lead to into voting ourselves economically insolvent (we're about half-way there, with all the wars and bail-outs), what do you think will be next??? And remember, we have no Atlantis to go to, no John Galt to come for us in a private plane and wisk us away from cities running out of food and failing electrical grids... you wanna see "scaremongering"? I don't have to reason with fiction - I have only facts to produce a reasonable prediction! This is where I stand: this world we live in is a continuous perpetual struggle between the parasites and the producers. There is no singular course of action that can be taken to change this. My position is to persevere as long as I’m alive, to pursue my Happiness to the exhaustion of my ability (aka my death). Big part of my pursuit and commitment to it is truth – finding it and commiting to it.
Beyond that, I refuse to subsrcribe to anyone’s wars – be that the wars of any religious fanatics or that of “liberators of the opressed”, or the opressors, for I feel that all of those groups are guided by parasites.

Think the following over: historically, ANY AND ALL evils of statism started to materialise with mass calls for patriotism (go back to history books and read about any tyrant and oppressive regime, from Roman Empire to Nazi Germany to Soviet Russia, to…) We are now several years past these calls for Patriotism in the U.S. (and tasteless displays of flags everywhere) of 2001, and there are some other nations that are building up patriotism (among them Iran, Russia, North Korea, China – to name just a few of the most powerful ones); consider where we are being lead and what kind of weapons are now available for deployment… first, we are going to be lead to into voting ourselves economically insolvent (we’re about half-way there, with all the wars and bail-outs), what do you think will be next??? And remember, we have no Atlantis to go to, no John Galt to come for us in a private plane and wisk us away from cities running out of food and failing electrical grids… you wanna see “scaremongering”? I don’t have to reason with fiction – I have only facts to produce a reasonable prediction!

]]> By: salmongirl73 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/03/going-my-way/comment-page-1/#comment-132 salmongirl73 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:34:28 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=153#comment-132 You already know my position, Dagny. =) And I am really, truly hoping that you can prove me wrong, that society in general is worth saving. After all, this is the same civilization that brought us candles, orchestra music, the Internet, art deco, and <i>Metroid</i>, a few of my favorite things. <i>Or is it?</i> Aristocracy has been democratized here in America, and we peasants are forced to toil for their comfort. Oddly enough, numerous peasant revolts have been orchestrated by a member or members of the reigning aristocracy or from elsewhere. Why? Because peasants traditionally hold a fatalistic philosophy, a "death and taxes" attitude toward the world. You and I are going to break that cycle of fatalism, because we have what no peasant in history has ever had: certainty of our own efficacy. Notwithstanding, there are going to be horrors in the days and years ahead: some hauntingly similar to Rand's predictions, but many that even Lovecraft would refuse to contemplate, figuratively speaking. Don't let those horrors break your resolve! You are on a right path, and your efforts will succeed if you keep after them. Stick to your guns, like I will stick to mine. We'll meet somewhere on the field of battle. =) You already know my position, Dagny. =) And I am really, truly hoping that you can prove me wrong, that society in general is worth saving. After all, this is the same civilization that brought us candles, orchestra music, the Internet, art deco, and Metroid, a few of my favorite things. Or is it? Aristocracy has been democratized here in America, and we peasants are forced to toil for their comfort. Oddly enough, numerous peasant revolts have been orchestrated by a member or members of the reigning aristocracy or from elsewhere. Why? Because peasants traditionally hold a fatalistic philosophy, a “death and taxes” attitude toward the world. You and I are going to break that cycle of fatalism, because we have what no peasant in history has ever had: certainty of our own efficacy.

Notwithstanding, there are going to be horrors in the days and years ahead: some hauntingly similar to Rand’s predictions, but many that even Lovecraft would refuse to contemplate, figuratively speaking. Don’t let those horrors break your resolve! You are on a right path, and your efforts will succeed if you keep after them. Stick to your guns, like I will stick to mine. We’ll meet somewhere on the field of battle. =)

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