Who is John Galt

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If we value life and seek rational solutions to the world's problems, are we not at least driven to consider the outmoded, but perhaps useful concept of freedom.  Or does the percieved duty to our fellows demand life be lived as a perpetual ritual suicide in the name of compassion?  Aynn Rand is one of my favorite authors.  The passion she exudes for true kindness and true love of humanity towers above most expressions of moralty and ethics.   These videos touch these same issues. 

"There are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle . . . those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. . . . No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are their aims: in matter - the enslavement of man's body, in spirit - the destruction of his mind . . . make no mistake about the character of the mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power, the power to rule you by force, has always been their only lust. . . . But it cannot be done to you without your consent. If you permit it to be done, you deserve it."