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Tell us: Who is John Galt?

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 8 months ago to Entertainment
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*** SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet read the book, you may want to skip this post. ***

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When asked "Who is John Galt?", how do you typically respond? The inventor of the motor? The man who stopped the motor of the world? The best within each of us?

We're looking for the clearest, most concise, answers to help promote the message of Atlas and the film. So Gulch... who exactly is John Galt? Submit a comment on this post with your answer or vote on the answer you think is best. The best answers just might be used on upcoming ASP3 promotional materials and, if your answer is used, you’ll get a special thanks in the credits of the film “Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?”

This is your chance to not only help spread the word about Ayn Rand and what John Galt symbolizes but also... to forever be a part of Atlas Shrugged history.

How long should your answer be? No longer than 15 seconds to say/read. Submit as many answers as you like but please submit them as individual comments.

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  • Posted by StudentOfObjectivism 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Galt shapes his world for himself. Choosing his values
    and virtues independently, he acts to achieve them,
    melding his life, mind, values, and action into one
    rationally-integrated whole: he is the man of integrity.
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  • Posted by ShruginArgentina 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who is John Galt?

    Does he really exist?

    Could he ever exist?

    If he doesn't exist, why is he being hunted by the government of the United States?

    Does he hold the key to a source of unlimited power that would change the country and the world?

    If he does, why has he refused to give this power to the world?

    Who is John Galt?
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  • Posted by drss1942 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Galt is the spirit of America as envisioned by our founding fathers and as burned into the hearts and minds of millions of men and women who have so fatthfuly served their county.
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  • Posted by RAB2235 10 years, 8 months ago
    A wise ingenious inventor with a plan to save the free enterprise system & individual liberties by
    convincing industrialists & entrepreneurs to resign to an isolated retreat to bring down a bloated, Marxist style government dependent on such individuals for the generation of necessary funds & products.
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  • Posted by ProudProducer 10 years, 8 months ago
    It might not be what you are looking for, but the most concise and most clearest answer to me is what Dagny answers before she enters the first train running on the John Galt Line, one of the most brilliant scenes of the book/movie:

    (Reporter) "Mrs. Taggart, who is John Galt?"
    (Dagny, after a short pause) "We are!"

    And yes, that's it. The most brilliant thing about it is that Dagny gives the right answer in an act of rebellion against moochers, looters and nay-sayers, without even knowing or assuming that it is indeed the right answer to that question.

    And if you can give that answer without hesitation, truly from your heart, you understand what this is all about: We are. Not they.
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  • Posted by dougthorburn 10 years, 8 months ago
    I saw John Aglialoro introduce Atlas Shrugged Part 2 for a Reason Foundation showing. He rambled on for 20 minutes about Objectivism and other completely unsalable points about Atlas. I wanted to stand and shout out, "It's the greatest story ever pitting market entrepreneurs against political entrepreneurs," but I didn't. I will forever regret my show of restraint. Yet that is what the story and movie are really all about. John Galt told market entrepreneurs to stop protecting political entrepreneurs, their political minions and the idiots who vote for them from the consequences of their actions, just as codependents need to stop protecting their alcoholic parasites.
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  • Posted by terrycan 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who is John Galt?
    He is taking away the 1% the collective hates.
    He is speeding up the destruction government started.
    Tomorrow the individual will rebuild.
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  • Posted by Bill-6969 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Galt is the person we could be if we refuse selling out to range of the moment thinking. Self deception is the cornerstone of failure, John Galt is the cornerstone of self creation.
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  • Posted by courtcopphil 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who is John Galt ?
    John Galt is the embodiment of the indomitable Human Spirit, despite the wide belief in the "collective over the individual", of the Man who can save us from the suicidal demands of a "Society" that makes demands that will benefit everyone in Society......... except the authors of Man's true greatness, the Producers.
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