# Glen Beck goes Full Galt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231 "2013-01-14T23:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/21 "2013-01-15T01:27:41Z")
You won’t have Glenn Beck to hey-whatever-happened-to-that-crying-Fox-News-guy anymore… Never go full Galt. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/22 "2013-01-15T01:28:20Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “Take me out to the Baal game…” Ohhh… so those were Baal fields he was talking about in the residential area… the plot thickens. (Of course, no one would ever believe this as a fiction story because it is just too weird). ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/23 "2013-01-15T01:34:55Z")
It’s like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Planet of the Apes, and Atlas Shrugged all rolled into one dystopian nightmare. I love it. Can you imagine a place where people would gladly defect to the USSR circa 1970, or modern day North Korea? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/24 "2013-01-15T01:36:37Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > I bet they think they’re going to run it all on a Tesla generator. Nah, all they have to do is make sure there’s a wind turbine in front of Beck at all times. > [@zoid](#): > > It’s like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Planet of the Apes, and Atlas Shrugged all rolled into one dystopian nightmare. You forgot _Lord of the Flies_. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/25 "2013-01-15T01:48:33Z")
And a touch of _Brazil_ I would imagine ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/26 "2013-01-15T01:48:45Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Nah, all they have to do is make sure there’s a wind turbine in front of Beck at all times. Clearly you didn’t watch the video. There are wind turbines in the illustration and Beck specifically commented that they’d been put in there by ??? to “piss [him] off” he said “there will be NO wind turbines” in his special magic land. Now, he is in Dallas area… maybe he intends to install his own gas drilling pads and frack the snot out of the place. But (a) most acreage is already leased and he’d have to buy up those leases and (b) a gas based generation plant isn’t going to be so cheap. I imagine that just those two factors would drive him over the 2 Billion dollar mark. PLUS, a gas well production isn’t really a long term thing and he’s talking a heck of a lot of electricity to run a major production studio, amusement park, education center. Oh… and I’m sure all the EwBeckIstanians will want power and lights in their monoculture designed homes. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/27 "2013-01-15T01:52:16Z")
Hey, I played this game! > [@](#): > > I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No!’ says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’ ‘No!’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘It belongs to God.’ ‘No!’ says the man in Moscow, ‘It belongs to everyone.’ I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well. It…didn’t turn out well. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/28 "2013-01-15T01:52:25Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Clearly you didn’t watch the video. Why would I do a foolish thing like that? I’ll watch him babble the day I develop a psychic telewedgie power, and not before. (And then only briefly, so to speak.) ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/29 "2013-01-15T01:53:19Z")
Didn’t check out the video in the OP, but to paraphrase from Tropic Thunder, never go full Galt! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/30 "2013-01-15T01:54:13Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > > [@zoid](#): > > > > It’s like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Planet of the Apes, and Atlas Shrugged all rolled into one dystopian nightmare. > > > > I love it. Can you imagine a place where people would gladly defect to the USSR circa 1970, or modern day North Korea? > > Nah, all they have to do is make sure there’s a wind turbine in front of Beck at all times. > > You forgot _Lord of the Flies_. Also _Brave New World_:“. . .The result of the Cyprus experiment was convincing.” “What was that?” asked the Savage. Mustapha Mond smiled. “Well, you can call it an experiment in rebottling if you like. It began in A.F. 473. The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and re-colonized with a specially prepared batch of twenty-two thousand Alphas. All agricultural and industrial equipment was handed over to them and they were left to manage their own affairs. The result exactly fulfilled all the theoretical predictions. The land wasn’t properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories; the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed; all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were. Within six years they were having a first-class civil war. When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island. Which they did. And that was the end of the only society of Alphas that the world has ever seen.” ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/31 "2013-01-15T01:56:19Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > It’s like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Planet of the Apes, and Atlas Shrugged all rolled into one dystopian nightmare. > > I love it. Can you imagine a place where people would gladly defect to the USSR circa 1970, or modern day North Korea? I just wish that when people check in, they can’t check out. That would make this one of the best all time social experiments in the history of the world. Could you imagine the second generation? We could finally prove or disprove the Idiocracy Theory 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/32 "2013-01-15T02:04:46Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Hey, I played this game! > > It…didn’t turn out well. Personally, I can’t wait until this becomes the plot of Bioshock 4. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/33 "2013-01-15T02:09:23Z")
> [@C3](#): > > They’re going to create all their own energy for film production and a theme park. That seems a bit ambitious. Not at all. The theme of the park is “Stoop Labor, Just Like Our Ancestors!” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/34 "2013-01-15T02:10:26Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Personally, I can’t wait until this becomes the plot of Bioshock 4. Failed amusement park as a setting? Dystopian utopia? Glen Beck as a boss mob? This could work. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/35 "2013-01-15T02:10:42Z")
Whatever happened to that artificial libertarian island nation? Still building it? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/36 "2013-01-15T02:10:59Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > You forgot _Lord of the Flies_. In this scenario I think we know who is Piggy. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/37 "2013-01-15T02:12:15Z")
What a brilliant idea. Pack all the brave New World libertarians off into some self-contained community. They should call it the Beck Ark, or B-Ark for short. No doubt it will feature **The Restaurant At The Arse-End of The Universe**. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/38 "2013-01-15T02:22:36Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > They should call it the Beck Ark, or B-Ark for short. No doubt it will feature **The Restaurant At The Arse-End of The Universe**. I just hope they remember to create a class of telephone sanitizers. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/39 "2013-01-15T02:25:27Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “Take me out to the Baal game…” [hijack]Dear **elucidator** : This post epitomizes why I have \*such \*a Doper crush on you. Loving you madly, Morgyn[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-goes-full-galt/647231/40 "2013-01-15T02:27:41Z")
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