Pulled over by a honking van
A big white van honked at me and waved me to the side of the road today. I thought my truck was on fire or something.
Turns out he'd seen my "Who is John Galt" bumper sticker and just wanted to talk to another rational animal. We chatted for a bit, shook hands, and went on our ways.
It was my first experience of that kind, and I found it much more satisfying even than waving at other bikers when on a motorcycle or waving at other BMW Z3/Z4 owners. In some ways, I wish we Gulcher's had a secret sign and a convention of waving or nodding to each other in acknowledgement of the sacredness of our knowledge.
I'd love to hear similar stories from fellow Gulch members.
I'm leaning against nearly running people off the road to tell them that I appreciate their bumper stickers as a standard means of acknowledgement. I don't see many Ayn Rand references on my daily commute anyway.
At any rate, to pass along some semblance of my morning thrill... A message to all of you: *Wink* I see you and I know what it means.
Turns out he'd seen my "Who is John Galt" bumper sticker and just wanted to talk to another rational animal. We chatted for a bit, shook hands, and went on our ways.
It was my first experience of that kind, and I found it much more satisfying even than waving at other bikers when on a motorcycle or waving at other BMW Z3/Z4 owners. In some ways, I wish we Gulcher's had a secret sign and a convention of waving or nodding to each other in acknowledgement of the sacredness of our knowledge.
I'd love to hear similar stories from fellow Gulch members.
I'm leaning against nearly running people off the road to tell them that I appreciate their bumper stickers as a standard means of acknowledgement. I don't see many Ayn Rand references on my daily commute anyway.
At any rate, to pass along some semblance of my morning thrill... A message to all of you: *Wink* I see you and I know what it means.
fisk.
my bad.
my really, really bad.
They're all done, except for my part.
up to the top of the list.
I am fine. You?
Regards,
O.A.
Miss you. I am fine as well.
NMA :-)
I also took a picture of a pickup truck in front of me in traffic, which had a WIJG sticker on his bumper. We were on a two lane road, so I couldn't pull up alongside and give him a thumbs up.
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older sister -- "she doesn't bother us." . she was glad
to say that. . I don't know why -- I always liked Elaine. -- j
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Another thought: My grandmother and mother make needlepoint antenna flags of the American flag. Hmm.
The other day I saw a real-estate investing colleague wearing a shirt with an excerpt of d'Anconia's speech about money printed on both sides. I complimented him on it, and we got to talking. His level of understanding of Objectivism was wonting, but he liked that part about money.
Most of my meaningful conversations (outside of this Galts Gulch), have been on Facebook. Last year I posted my favorite quotes from Atlas Shrugged, about one quote per day. Just about 50 quotes. Many of them were ignored; some were attacked; some generated very good and constructive discussion.
I feel a little lonely as a student of Objectivism here in San Antonio, but I suppose that may be the nature of Objectivists. Many of us want to just be left alone, and maybe tend to be introverted.
I do wonder: where do you think are the largest concentration of Objectivists located?
Given that at election time, rural is generally red and urban is generally blue, I'm ambivalent about where we'd be most likely to be found. One would think that more populated areas would have a greater concentration of any philosophical demographic, and that urban centers would tend to draw more capitalists. I'd bet though, that dropping the top 1% of the wealthiest and bottom 1% of the poorest, tallying up individual equity/net worth per capita on the remaining individuals, tallying up business equity in the same way (Disney drops out of Orlando and Casinos drop out of Las Vegas as part of the top 1%), one could generate a sort of "heat map" of likely locations to find middle-aged, working Objectivists who haven't Galted.
It seems like a fun project actually. I wonder if I could use Google map API's to generate it... It'd be neat to cross-reference it with sales of Ayn Rand books by the reader's location, or even a heat map of active members of the Gulch.
I've received numerous compliments on it, over the years.
or dit dah / dit dah dit (AR). -- j
p.s. we saw an old black background sticker saying
"Who is John Galt?" years ago at a gas station and
the conversation was delightful. . must've been
25 years ago. . wish I could find him now. . or I
might be addressing him here?!!!
p.p.s. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mors...
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