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'This is John Galt Speaking...' Submitted by Peter Cresswell on Thu, 2007-09-20 00:16.
This is a stunning presentation:
The centrepiece of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged -- which is currently rocketing up Amazon's ranks after the New York Times declared it "one of the most influential business books ever written" -- is the tour de force that is Galt's Speech. It took Rand two years to write the Speech (the effort of writing it, she once said, gave her at least ten more IQ points) and you can now see a four-minute video introduction to this incisive and powerful piece of writing here on YouTube. Don't waste your lunch hour reading about the new taxes imposed upon you for the sin of offending Gaia; spend four minutes instead watching this YouTube presentation, and hearing words that cut through and explain all the crap: "You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis... Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish... "Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that's through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality–you who have never known any–but to discover it." Discover morality? What could that mean? The answer is here in this short article on 'Galt's morality' in New Statesman: Objectivism. A philosophy for living? - the first of a four part series by Onkar Ghate. Do yourself a favour. Watch and read today. Do it not because it's your duty, but because it's selfishly important to you.
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Very nice
I think this is how Galt's speech (much shortened, ofcourse) should be shown in a movie version of Atlas Shrugged.
Thanks for the links to the articles. Here is an introduction to Objectivism by Onkar Ghate, short (10 mins) and sweet, just right for another lunch break.
Part 4 now online
Part 4 is here: Objectivism's Appeal and Demands.
Cheers, Peter Cresswell
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The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. But observe the results.
- Ayn Rand
Well
done Peter!
This is the 'good side' of Objectivism!
...getting back to basics without the bitchiness, rivalries, wankfests and esoteric nitpicking.
Is the chap at 2 minutes 16 seconds Ivan Boesky?
I think people should give Fred Thompson a bit more credit...he has the record for 99 - 1 votes in the US Senate
which means he has been doing the right thing for years!
Good find Peter.
I notice a lot of Brian Larsen's art work used throughout.
Captivating
I especially enjoy seeing that snake in the grass Fred Thompson in the beginning showing his true altruistic colors.