"Who is John Galt?"
John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although he is absent from much of the text, he is the subject of the novel's often repeated question
"Who is John Galt?"
and the quest to discover the answer.
As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator and inventor who symbolizes the power of the individual capitalist. He serves as an idealistic counterpoint to the social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces the stifling mediocrity and egalitarianism of socialistic idealism. In this popular mass ideology, the industrialists of America were a metaphorical Atlas of Greek mythology, holding up the world, whom Galt convinces to "shrug," by refusing to lend their productive genius to the regime any longer.(Stolen from Wiki)
John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although he is absent from much of the text, he is the subject of the novel's often repeated question"Who is John Galt?"
and the quest to discover the answer.
H/T to Rightside for pic
I just finished Atlas and now I know who Galt is. Howard is reading now and it is tempting NOT to tell him Who is John Galt? Long and arduous reading...wanted to substitute names...like Obama, Biden, Reid and the rest of the clowns in DC.
ReplyDeleteEver play the game of casting actors in the movie version???
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