This is John Galt speaking... (about our current collapse)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_qQt9IrUc0

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part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpo3OoyUUUc

[Kludge]

Good find!

Watching Howard Roark's court speech from The Fountainhead right now....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc7oZ9yWqO4

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Part 3/4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V-kTeWozXQ

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Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKYX_o-g-b0

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part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ajrwka2RE

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part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJJC-J2g7A

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part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOd42r7szQY

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Part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16N_76mlsMk

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Part 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-4oehFZI-k

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Part 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FWKaFrQ4f4

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Part 12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03sQzS-pM8

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Part 13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkSXqFUtKD4

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Part 14: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxMeLEoPa_o

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Part 15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZamzenkteTk

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Part 16: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0JcGpKqso

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Part 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNeqjZmmFA

[Xenophage]

You just reminded me why I never actually read past page 10 of Galt's speech.

TOO.
FUCKING.
LONG.

And I already knew exactly what she was going to say by the time I got to the speech. Its just a summation of the rest of the novel, which is much more entertaining to read.

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You just reminded me why I never actually read past page 10 of Galt's speech.

TOO.
FUCKING.
LONG.

And I already knew exactly what she was going to say by the time I got to the speech. Its just a summation of the rest of the novel, which is much more entertaining to read.

Skip to the end.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Who is John Galt?

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Who is John Galt?

Who is Ron Paul?

[Kludge]

Who is Ron Paul?

That old White Supremacist who is supported by hookers, pot-smokers, and batshit crazy loons with signs and megaphones, IIRC.

[Xenophage]

that old white supremacist who is supported by hookers, pot-smokers, and batshit crazy loons with signs and megaphones, iirc.

omg i heard he votes to starve african aids babies!

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John Galt's Speech
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For twelve years you've been asking "Who is John Galt?" This is John Galt speaking. I'm the man who's taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world. You've heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis and that Man's sins are destroying the world. But your chief virtue has been sacrifice, and you've demanded more sacrifices at every disaster. You've sacrificed justice to mercy and happiness to duty. So why should you be afraid of the world around you?

Your world is only the product of your sacrifices. While you were dragging the men who made your happiness possible to your sacrificial altars, I beat you to it. I reached them first and told them about the game you were playing and where it would take them. I explained the consequences of your 'brother-love' morality, which they had been too innocently generous to understand. You won't find them now, when you need them more than ever.

We're on strike against your creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. If you want to know how I made them quit, I told them exactly what I'm telling you tonight. I taught them the morality of Reason -- that it was right to pursue one's own happiness as one's principal goal in life. I don't consider the pleasure of others my goal in life, nor do I consider my pleasure the goal of anyone else's life.

I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice. I don't force anyone to trade with me; I only trade for mutual benefit. Force is the great evil that has no place in a rational world. One may never force another human to act against his/her judgment. If you deny a man's right to Reason, you must also deny your right to your own judgment. Yet you have allowed your world to be run by means of force, by men who claim that fear and joy are equal incentives, but that fear and force are more practical.

You've allowed such men to occupy positions of power in your world by preaching that all men are evil from the moment they're born. When men believe this, they see nothing wrong in acting in any way they please. The name of this absurdity is 'original sin'. That's inmpossible. That which is outside the possibility of choice is also outside the province of morality. To call sin that which is outside man's choice is a mockery of justice. To say that men are born with a free will but with a tendency toward evil is ridiculous. If the tendency is one of choice, it doesn't come at birth. If it is not a tendency of choice, then man's will is not free.

And then there's your 'brother-love' morality. Why is it moral to serve others, but not yourself? If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but not by you? Why is it immoral to produce something of value and keep it for yourself, when it is moral for others who haven't earned it to accept it? If it's virtuous to give, isn't it then selfish to take?

Your acceptance of the code of selflessness has made you fear the man who has a dollar less than you because it makes you feel that that dollar is rightfully his. You hate the man with a dollar more than you because the dollar he's keeping is rightfully yours. Your code has made it impossible to know when to give and when to grab.

You know that you can't give away everything and starve yourself. You've forced yourselves to live with undeserved, irrational guilt. Is it ever proper to help another man? No, if he demands it as his right or as a duty that you owe him. Yes, if it's your own free choice based on your judgment of the value of that person and his struggle. This country wasn't built by men who sought handouts. In its brilliant youth, this country showed the rest of the world what greatness was possible to Man and what happiness is possible on Earth.

Then it began apologizing for its greatness and began giving away its wealth, feeling guilty for having produced more than ikts neighbors. Twelve years ago, I saw what was wrong with the world and where the battle for Life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality and that my acceptance of that morality was its only power. I was the first of the men who refused to give up the pursuit of his own happiness in order to serve others.

To those of you who retain some remnant of dignity and the will to live your lives for yourselves, you have the chance to make the same choice. Examine your values and understand that you must choose one side or the other. Any compromise between good and evil only hurts the good and helps the evil.

If you've understood what I've said, stop supporting your destroyers. Don't accept their philosophy. Your destroyers hold you by means of your endurance, your generosity, your innocence, and your love. Don't exhaust yourself to help build the kind of world that you see around you now. In the name of the best within you, don't sacrifice the world to those who will take away your happiness for it.

The world will change when you are ready to pronounce this oath:

I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.

http://www.working-minds.com/galtmini.htm

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the short version works too.

[Aratus]

cool!

[OferNave]

John Galt's Speech
mini-version
[ 964 words ]


I like this version better, because it's not 68 pages long. :)

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[purplechoe]

I listened to the wholw thing while at work. I just finished reading Fountainhead and started on Atlas Shrugged. And I thought that the speech in the courtroom by Howard was way too long... Oh well, it's the jurney that matters... :)

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I listened to the wholw thing while at work. I just finished reading Fountainhead and started on Atlas Shrugged. And I thought that the speech in the courtroom by Howard was way too long... Oh well, it's the jurney that matters... :)

I listened to Atlas Shrugged, book on tape. I use to have 40 minute commutes. It made the drive interesting.

[DirtMcGirt]

They should clean up the video a bit and insert an obama opening segment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_qQt9IrUc0

are they making the movie yet, that mustache Brad has right now makes me think something is in the works...

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Below is my favorite part of the speech, really hit home for an earlier part of my life and I wonder how many others gave up in despair. I have since stopped shrugging, but how many others have not, and how many others never did?
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Do you want to know who is John Galt? I am the first man of ability who refused to regard it as guilt. I am the first man who would not do penance for my virtues or let them be used as the tools of my destruction. I am the first man who would not suffer martyrdom at the hands of those who wished me to perish for the privilege of keeping them alive. I am he first man who told them that I did not need them, and until they learned to deal with me as traders, giving value for value, they would have to exist without me, as I would exist without them; then I would let them learn whose is the need and whose the ability - and if human survival is the standard, whose terms would set the way to survive.

I have done by plan and intention what has been done througout history by silent default. There have always been men of intelligence who went on strike, in protest and despair, but they did not know the meaning of their action. The man who retires from public life, to think, but not share his thoughts - the man who chooses to spend his years in the obscurity of menial employment, keeping to himself the fire of his mind, never giving it form, expression or reality, refusing to bring it into a world he despises - the man who is defeated by revulsion, the man who renounces before he has started, the man who gives up rather than give in, the man who functions at a fraction of his capacity, disarmed by his longing for an ideal he has not found - they are on strike, on strike against unreason, on strike against your world and your values. But not knowing any values of their own they abandon the quest to know - in the darkness of their hopeless indignation, which is righteous without knowledge of the right, and passionate without knowledge of desire, they concede to you the power of reality and surrender the incentives of their mind- and they perish in bitter futility, as rebels who never learned the object of their rebellion, as lovers who never discovered their love.
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The problem is the current collapse was not caused by an intelligensia strike. This time the motor has stopped because it has run out of inexpensive energy.