Saving America and The Rest Of The World is the ambitious (if not meticulously planned) long-term mission of this blog. Too many good people despair that their fate is to labor one hour for government’s benefit for every two they labor for their own. Too many good people fear that freedom’s value and reputation will inevitably decline year after year. And far too many good people still hope that someone else will take the steps necessary to fix all that is broken.
This blog will explore what can be done, and how best to do it. This blog is here to remind productive individuals that they are the force that makes the world turn. And with a little help, this blog just might help coordinate the concrete actions needed to show the world who’s really in charge.
It may not yet be time for a strike, but it’s certainly not too early to plan a “job action”.
You sound like the fucking CIA, just trolling for fools.
John – Please contact me directly with the e-mail I provided.
i agree with peter barker, you sound like the biggest douchebag ever!
Sad, sad day! There was a rumor that American’s had lost their ability for critical thinking – a rumor is one this, arriving at a web-site that validates this accusation it is quite a wake-up call. I love the novel Atlas Shrugged, and regret that some moron’s inability to decipher the actual point of the story has caused it to be affiliated with such malicious intent…she’s be rolling in her grave!
don’t take my word for it – maybe try reading the book, or ask rand’s ex-lover, he’s still in LA: dr nathaniel branden -
let’s refrain from trivializing one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century by immitaion. How about REAL ACTION?
and moderating comments??? haha
As opposed to fiction in Atlas Shrugged, try reading “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal” by Ayn Rand
Having read Atlas Shrugged I’m not sure who in the real world lines us with her fictional characters. The whole relationship between Halliburton and the last administration don’t really make them look like any of her heroic characters as I understand them.
It might be good to re-think this whole idea of fictional characters saving the world for us. Maybe take a lesson from the “Watchmen” that good and evil can get messed up in spite of any of our best efforts.
We just need to keep talking and working toward a better world and not look for a utopia ushered in by fictional archetypes with perfect solutions.
Its certainly ridiculous to stop working because we’re scared of the govt taking our money from us. But its equally ridiculous to assume that redistribution automatically translates to greater productivity and economic growth.
I don’t think many of us have brilliant ideas.. but for those that do, the best thing we can do is stay out of there way and wish them the best. This is how America’s gotten to where it is today.
anyone who agrees with this guy is selfish. The rich have more money than any other class so they should be taxed more. This guys needs grow up and look around, we are in a recession and everyone has to sacrifice. There are plenty of poor people out there who don’t even have a job and this guys pissed because he has to give up a little more of his money. what a dick.
http://taxdayteaparty.com/
this is not spam, its in conjuction with what most of us believe. a modern tea party of sorts. get out and be heard!
also, i am moving to belize. is anyone already there to help me?
thanks in advance
Look into what Russell Means is doing in the Republic of Lakotah. The Republic of Lakotah is a huge territory with in the United States spanning over three states. No taxes, no regulation, a place to for true independence. The only catch is we’d be starting an economy of our own from scratch. But this is the best site I know of to start a Galt’s Gulch! Too soon? Not too soon to be thinking about it.
Read this dude’s bio, he is an unemployed computer programmer, how the heck is he a producer? My Dad came here with 20 dollars and is now a CEO of a company he started. My mom is an EMPLOYED former programmer and now manager at a tech company. And yet somehow, they don’t mind their tax dollars helping the worthless poor, and seem to vote for the dirty Democommunists John Galt here wants to escape. I guess they understand that everyone who is rich and succeeds here benefits from the rule of law, resources, and educated labor force that the shared coercion of our government. However, my parents or anyone else who wants to redress the problematic inequalities within this system that benefits the so called “producers” are acting oppressively? Maybe you shouldn’t take your political cues from ham-fisted speculative fiction that has all the obsessive repetitive prose but none of the cool aliens and lasers.
I would love nothing more than for the people who espouse this philosophy to follow the example of John Galt and withdraw from the rest of society. I would love to see how long Galt’s Gulch would last without any janitors, fry cooks, or housekeepers.
“I like paying taxes. With them, I buy civilization.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ayn Rand will always be popular among awkward teenagers who can’t get a date, but our real oppressor is not government — Our real oppressor is Big Business, which is largely after all not a noble fraternity of creative, hardworking knights but rather a scheming, lawless bunch of lazy, sociopathic criminals (see B. Madoff, K. Lay, etc. etc.)
Haven’t we noticed? Most rich people are rich because they inherited their connections, or are lucky. The system is heavily weighted so that the rich get richer.
“We don’t need you? You have nothing to offer us?” Don’t be bloody silly. Everybody knows that Big Business needs Cheap Labor, and lots of it.
Managerial strike? Who cares if the boss doesn’t show up? Corporate board members aren’t the ones operating machinery, driving trucks, counting inventory, selling products on the floor, or installing them in people’s homes.
A strike is also a completely empty gesture if you’re not actually taking the risk of losing something in the act of protest. A strike among laborers has meaning because they know they are losing wages or even their jobs to make a point.
What would corporate guys even be striking against? Ineffectiveness of the labor structure they themselves designed? Government “bailout”. That’s called a plain old protest
When you work in a corporate office and won’t lose anything by striking, it’s not a strike, it’s a fucking vacation and it’s an incredible insult to those who’ve lose their livelihoods and lives in pursuit of protections thereof. Pretending for even a second that corporate employees have something worth striking about just reveals the enormous sense of entitlement these people have.
I guess Rand only oppose entitlement only if you can’t afford to buy what isn’t outright given to you.
I think going John Galt would be a wonderful thing…. and I am a communist!!!!
I do not think you understand just how close true communism and Rand’s IDEALIZED version of capitalism are the same. Communists have recognized her works and philosophy to be completely in agreement to Marx and Engel’s. The symantics are a bit different but they both agree that…
1. government should be de-centralized and run by those with the most ability not political power. The the government should not get in the way of those who have the most creative power. There should be no laws restraining individuals to be as creative as successful as possible.
2. Her vision of capitalism is merely communism ran by those with the most ability. Using “friendly” competition to keep everything in check. As we know in a true capitalist system that the only goal is to be greedy and to generate money and not to fulfill a human need or desire as the main goal. In Rand’s writings about capitalism she sees the consumers as the guilty party for bringing the nation to its knees where the truth is that companies in collusion with each other are often the main source of fraud and economic disasters. (ie… savings and loans, sub-prime mortagages….etc).
3. A real monetary system based on a commodity (gold, silver, oil). Remember they were all hording gold and copper in the gulch… because the printed money wasn’t backed by anything that their word (bonds)…. well we have that system now. And our currency only looses value and is based on debt from the government (bonds). The Federal Reserve is in complete control of the monetary system and it is ran by too few private bankers that have their own agendas. Marx writes about this at length in his book Das Kapitol…. it was required reading for me at university and it is the most accurate depiction of how a true capitalist system really works… Rand knew this but decided that the competitive nature of humans would keep things in check… but she also knew that if the monetary system is manipulated by government than the economy will always be at the mercy of the government. This is how governments control and manipulate the economy… If we all used something like gold or silver then that has no national origin… no way of the government to control.
4. That the only thing that has ever made humans lives better is technology. Not religion or money. Knowledge and the application of knowledge is humanities greatest and highest value. Both Rand and Communists see technology as the most important priority for a society.
5. Rand and communists both recognize that religion and mysticism is the ultimate enemy of man’s mind. That if you are willing to believe in someone that is not logical and is based in fiction or “faith” than how could you be logical about all other dealings? This was RAND’s ultimate lesson in Atlas Shruged and why it is so much more than just a tale about government and economics…. it is a philosophical treatise. Only us that are completely logical about every aspect in our lives are full human beings. Those who have sold out a part of their thinking to some ‘higher?” power have not come to terms that we are that higher power. And that as a race… we are an even higher power.
Please go back and read and listen to the chapter “this is John Galt speaking” put up the whole unabridged 50+ pages of that chapter on this site. Let your readers who are going to “GO GALT” read this and see that they HAVE to abandon mysticism and religion and embrace logic and thinking. They have to embrace philosophy and technology as the pinacle of the human race and not some all knowing and vengeful deity. The computer… airplane… skyscrapper… were the result of man’s mind…. not mysticism. No amount of praying will ever help you invent something out of nothing… only your creative mind will.
It really wasn’t until after reading much of Ayn Rand’s works that I formed my own personal philosophy of self assurance and self esteem based on my own thoughts and not those inherited from a god or a preacher or a guru. Rand has the same goals as us communists and Technocrats… a society with a fair economic system (be it capitolist, communist, or a non-monetary system); free from the restraints of religion and mysticism; where technology and philosophy thrive and are rewarded accordingly.
Just as a disclaimer….. When I mention Communism I am not referring to other past governments such as the USSR.. North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Italy, or China. I am referring to a system of economy and social order that is de-centralized. Those governments are or were Fascist and Authoritarian. Some of them are more successful than others in fulfilling Marx’s vision of economics but were ultimately unsustainable for a list of reasons… except that of maybe Cuba and Venezuela. The type of communism that I am talking about is more grass-roots… Think “credit unions, public works, wikipedia, linux, and doctor owned hospitals” These are organizations that are run by them selves and are either owned and operated by its employees not share holders and investors. The incentive of the workers is to keep the business going and thriving and they are in direct control over the profits. No government intervention telling them what to do just workers doing the right thing and decisions to get the work done and to take responsibility. The goal of communism is sustainability… not rapid growth and generating as much money as possible.
Feel free to email me if you want to discus this at length.
Brian
What Brian said.
I think you are missing the point of the book.
The point of the book is not to “go john galt” but to explain what happens when the government destroys the successful to give to the unproductive poor: you get an unproductive, poor country.
You get what you reward.
Ayn Rand, for her part, made us aware that an individual is incapable of generating wealth and prosperity without the aide of the workers. That there is, in fact, no single person capable of creating alone the vast sums of wealth that a character like Reardon held. It is a shame she didn’t seem to realize this herself. Of course, Rand was a particularly self absorbed author. And Reardon was the embodiment of an Idea. To her the Idea was everything–that’s all a book is. In the real world though an idea is nothing without the hands that move it from the minds of its creators into the world. Even her book was nothing without the printers, and cutters, the floor sweepers and bookstore clerks who together turned it from an idea into cash moving through the marketplace.
Finally. This financial disaster is making people realize that the parasite is the one at the head of the corporation, sucking at the teat of American Labor, stealing the hard earned wealth of the retiree’s 401K, and shuffling the deck of a three card Monty game that was quietly being dealt out behind the closed doors of the Bush administration.
… I am your Father …
I own a business. What if I went on strike ? I am the guy who gets the work, makes sure it is done and pays the bills. My business is small, only 9 people, but what happens if I say to hell with it ? There are 9 people out of work. Believe me with the current tax and goverment structure the ONLY reason I don’t “go on strike” is because of my employees. BUT if things continue like they are I am going to say to hell with it and close up. I made mine !!!
Found a job yet? Really hope you focus more on finding a real job rather than spending time on your useless web site. Going Galt? LMAO…You have already removed yourself from the workforce and the world still continues…..Producer my ass