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On 24 May 2002 at 9:37, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> What you want is technical elitism
> and in that, you are a lot like the John Galt character of
> Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, believing that the only choice
> of the technically advanced and sophisticated is to go to
> their own enclave until the world failing without their
> sage advice comes to beg them to rule.
Correction - "Atlas Shrugged". The leaders left because they refused
to compromise their beliefs and the adopt the popular socialist
policies/beliefs of the time (e.g. those who do well are punished the
most, etc).
Disturbingly fitting for our times, imho.
Sorrry to wander off-topic.
Who is John Galt?
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