Glen Beck goes Full Galt

[Rhythmdvl]

Per Right Wing Watch:

On his program last night, Beck revealed that his intention to “go Galt” is quite literal, unveiling grandiose plans to create an entirely self-sustaining community called Independence Park that will provide its own food and energy, produce television and film content, host research and development, serve as a marketplace for products and ideas, while also housing a theme park and serving as a residential community.

Any speculation about what’s going on? Publicity stunt to get some headlines? (Is Beck even a thing anymore post-Fox?) Could a handful of investors really pull this off? What rides do you think the theme park will have? Can’t wait to find out how basic services are doled out!

Please oh please let this come to fruition! And please oh please, let there be Big Daddies and Little Sisters!

(ETA: apologies for misspelling ‘Galt’. It’s been a long time since I was a high school sophomore, the maximum age anyone should take Libertarianism seriously.)

[Robot_Arm]

@Rhythmdvl

Any speculation about what’s going on? Publicity stunt to get some headlines?

Real estate scam?
Pitch for a reality TV show?
Vowed to put Disneyland out of business ever since he was 6 and was traumatized by someone in a Baloo costume?

The possibilities are endless, really. We’ll just have to see how it plays out.

[Robot_Arm]

You know, now that I think about it, there is one even sillier possibility. Perhaps he thinks it will actually work.

[C3]

They’re going to create all their own energy for film production and a theme park. That seems a bit ambitious.

[Meatros]

I have scary visions of flavor aid being distributed when the community starts to go down hill…

[Giraffe]

Awesome. Beck seems like a perfect representation of entitled libertarianism (see also: Internet libertarianism), whereby people born into a safe, well-off society complain bitterly about having to contribute in any way and are convinced they could build a far better society from scratch despite not having any real skills. They are usually also of the opinion that being the “ideas guy” is one of the more valuable positions of said Brave New World, since they’ll tell all the know-nothing labor types how many wells to dig or windmills to build. Unfortunately, everyone who shows up will be of similar self-deluded grandiosity and the whole thing will collapse almost immediately.

[Typo_Negative]

More power to him. I hope it works out.

It won’t though.

[billfish678]

Research and Development?

In what? How to get shinola out of shit?

[Enkel]

Operation Ew-Beck-Istan! My guess, he saw all that super cheap acreage in TX and figured he’d try to make a killing on it by creating a commune. (And this isn’t the first commune rodeo out there… look at the guy selling the underground condos for insane prices, NM has a boat load of commune type places… so, he’s in the heart of nutterville)

Like someone else posted, how will this be self-sustaining when he described insane electrical loads?

No cars? Well, the masses won’t be walking forever, so guess it will be a golf cart city.

Archives, education center… hmmmmm… is Scientology going to get a cut of this place? (What odds that this will be a church of some sort by the end of 2013?)

They have a tiny ‘ranch’ off in the corner, but dedicate 5x as much space to the amusement park (hmmmm… what evangelical made that massive amusement park using the donations of ‘church supporters’ that hasn’t broken even, but has managed to pay involved people salaries in the millions?)

Housing that doesn’t reflect status… OMG… that is a socialist idea!

“National Archive” — uh, do they intend to raid the US National Archive? OR, they may as well admit that they’re getting COPIES of the official documents. The day the Constitution ends up in that place, we are ALL in trouble!

Can’t wait to hear how they intend to deal with water issues. Maybe follow T. Boon Pickens’ idea and declare a water district so they can suck the aquifer dry? Local ranchers will LOVE that one.

Immersion experiences for today’s problems… can’t wait to see the immersion experience for coal… will they sit you in a room and subject you to coal dust, gas build up and mine explosions? Maybe a little lunch in the presence of burning coal and a touch of acid rain to replace that facial that you’ll miss?

For an immersion experience for natural gas, they can sit you next to a 100’ gas flair… that will be a hoot! (Of course, your hearing will be impaired, so you won’t actually hear your fellow students hooting or anything like it).

I have to admit, the idea of following this actually makes me tempted to find out how to sign up for his stuff… but, only ‘almost’. This is going to be fun to watch!

[Enkel]

@billfish678

Research and Development?

In what? How to get shinola out of shit?

Surely, all the top scholars across the globe are filling out applications for acceptance into their research facility as we speak. Who wouldn’t want to work in an ideologically neutral organization like Ew-Beck-Istan?

[Bryan_Ekers]

It could be a new Mecca only without, y’know, all the evil anti-American Muslim stuff.

[Enkel]

@Giraffe

Awesome. Beck seems like a perfect representation of entitled libertarianism (see also: Internet libertarianism), whereby people born into a safe, well-off society complain bitterly about having to contribute in any way and are convinced they could build a far better society from scratch despite not having any real skills. They are usually also of the opinion that being the “ideas guy” is one of the more valuable positions of said Brave New World, since they’ll tell all the know-nothing labor types how many wells to dig or windmills to build. Unfortunately, everyone who shows up will be of similar self-deluded grandiosity and the whole thing will collapse almost immediately.

AND they’re all adamant 2nd amandment supporters who will be packing heat any where and every where they go.

This is going to be such a FUN community to watch develop. I truly hope they get at least 500 people moved into it, so it can be used as a credible model for what happens when the nutters are cut loose to develop their own world. I can’t wait for the first time they try to organize mowing of the residential area or charge everyone a home owner’s fee.

I bet Beck could sell portions of this as a reality show.

[Enkel]

@C3

They’re going to create all their own energy for film production and a theme park. That seems a bit ambitious.

I bet they think they’re going to run it all on a Tesla generator.

[River_Hippie]

@Enkel

(snip)…No cars? Well, the masses won’t be walking forever, so guess it will be a golf cart city…(snip)

Hoverrounds.

[Enkel]

@River_Hippie

Hoverrounds.

hehehe… they’ll have antennas so they can charge directly off the Tesla generator (also housed on the island at the center of the lake) and the battery will never run out on them.

And here is their version of the hoverround: http://www.powerchair-review.co.uk/tankchair.htm

[elucidator]

John Galt was an atheist, wasn’t he? Bit of a hurdle, there, don’t you think, Glen?

[Enkel]

@elucidator

John Galt was an atheist, wasn’t he? Bit of a hurdle, there, don’t you think, Glen?

No, they’re going to worship gold and all that is made from gold… (I wonder where Beck intends his gold statue to be placed)

Of course… God won’t mind them worshiping gold statues… no, He’s never had a problem with that before…

[River_Hippie]

@Enkel

hehehe… they’ll have antennas so they can charge directly off the Tesla generator (also housed on the island at the center of the lake) and the battery will never run out on them.

And here is their version of the hoverround: http://www.powerchair-review.co.uk/tankchair.htm

That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

[elucidator]

@Enkel

No, they’re going to worship gold and all that is made from gold… (I wonder where Beck intends his gold statue to be placed)

Of course… God won’t mind them worshiping gold statues… no, He’s never had a problem with that before…

“Take me out to the Baal game…”

[Enkel]

@River_Hippie

That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

Read the article. They’re a US company and looking for a couple (qualified) people to test out their chairs and give feedback. They really are cool if you have a desire to go ‘off road’ in a chair.