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2008-09-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-26 10:52|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Who is John Gault?

Posted by Eddie Willers 2008-09-26 13:30|| 2008-09-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

#2 http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/C_is_for_Chicken.jpg

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-26 13:40|| 2008-09-26 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 shrug

Posted by Atlas 2008-09-26 13:53|| 2008-09-26 13:53|| Front Page Top

#4 A character from Atlas Shrugged.

Quick Bio from Wiki-

The son of an Ohio garage mechanic, Galt left home at age 12 and began college at Patrick Henry University at age 16. There he befriended Francisco d'Anconia and Ragnar Danneskjöld. All three of them double-majored in physics and philosophy. They were the cherished students of the brilliant scientist Robert Stadler and the brilliant philosopher Hugh Akston.

After graduating, Galt becomes an engineer at the Twentieth Century Motor Works where he designs a revolutionary new motor powered by ambient static electricity with the potential to change the world. Like Ellis Wyatt, he creates what many had for years said was impossible. When the company owners decide to run the factory by the collectivist maxim, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", Galt organizes a successful labor strike (but this time getting employers, inventors, businessmen and industrialists to go on strike against statist laws that violate their rights), proclaiming his promise to stop the motor of the world. Galt begins traversing the globe, meeting the world's most successful businessmen, systematically convincing them to follow in his footsteps; one by one, they began abandoning their business empires (which, Galt convinces them, were doomed to failure anyhow, given the increased nationalization of industry by the government). This strike forms the backdrop of the novel as the mystery which protagonist Dagny Taggart seeks to uncover, with Galt as her antagonist (the novel was originally titled The Strike).

Secretly, these captains of industry, led by Galt and banker Midas Mulligan, create their own societya secret enclave of rational individualists living in 'Galt's Gulch', a town secluded high in a wilderness of mountains in Colorado. Taggart accidentally finds the townand a shocked John Galtby crash-landing a light aircraft while pursuing Quentin Daniels.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-26 14:38|| 2008-09-26 14:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Sure, lets overthrow em. I'm in. I aint buyin the whiskey though.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-26 18:05|| 2008-09-26 18:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell there's probably enough whiskey in the Kennedy compound to supply our needs for _years_....

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-26 18:49|| 2008-09-26 18:49|| Front Page Top

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