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My memory for titles is definitely going with my hair. As I remember (not good), the paraphrase is, if one is rewarded according to needs and worked according to abilities, over time more are needy and fewer are able. One has to inquire, on balance, if intelligent adaptation means the capacity to overcome the training effects of environmental feedback and choose a course by which one both contributes and conserves. I sat in a B-29 and a B-24 this weekend with pilots whose arm patches read "Confederate Air Force" but whose pamphlets read "Commemorative Air Force" and wondered about the rights of the men who flew these to claim a name of their own choosing without being harrassed by those who didn't. Who is John Galt? len From: John Evdemon [mailto:jevdemon@a...] 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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