(off topic) For those who do not know who John Galt is.
Answer: He pirateered the radio airways and told everyone the truth,
but to no avail, as after he finished one unscrupulous person told another
unscrupulous person, don't worry they heard but do not understand,
and even if it makes it into a movie or tv series and is seened by the masses,
once again, don't worry they will see and hear, but will not understand.
"Who is John Galt?"
He said he would stop the motor of the world, and he did.
But who is John Galt? A destroyer or a liberator?
Why does he fight his battle, not against his enemies,
but against those who need him most?
Atlas Shrugged portrays the murder and rebirth of the human spirit.
The Fountainhead
On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles
as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating,
and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey.
But the book addresses a number of universal themes:
- the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil
- the threat of fascism
- The confrontation of those themes... |
