[lbo-talk] going galt

[123hop at comcast.net]

"curious about the bumper stickers that say, "atlas shrugged" with the 
date of the 2008 election on them, I googled and found this: 

http://washingtonindependent.com/32772/battling-obama-by-going-galt" 

Yeah, well, the drift toward an underground economy is totally comprehensible 
given the degree of taxation the middle class is subject to and the services they 
derive from that -- not much. 

But, what no-one remembers about Atlas Shrugged is that, at the 
end, when all the "creative" people are off to the hidden valleys 
of Colorado, what enables them to survive is the discovery of an infinite 
supply of energy. So, the problem of actual drone work remains; Rand 
simply produces an energia ex machina to supply what normal 
workers would. That way the creative people can remain creative 
without dirtying their hands. 

Endless cluelessness.... 

Joanna