And hence the “code red” thingy
Of course, to prove it’s really “self-sustaining,” it would have to be sealed off from the outside world as hermetically as a Biodome (excepting air), or a small-scale North Korea, for at least a year or two. No one enters, no one leaves, no material goods cross the town-line, nothing goes in, nothing comes out, complete autarky.
And Beck, if he’s serious about this, would have to stay there all that time . . .
Go, Glen! Do it, dude!
Break a deal, face the wheel!
Glengarry Glen Beck
When it collapses, maybe they can make tableware.
Soylent Glen.
Wow. Way to get it just as ass-backwards as possible.
So, how would you characterize a True Randroid colony-town, then?
The BESTEST.
No, you are thinking theory, **Giraffe **is just mentioning what happens in practice.
Isn’t part of the point of “going Galt” that society would cease to function without these people? The only ones who will suffer from a lack of Glenn Beck are the writers for The Colbert Report.
Aynal.
Fine. So first the whole thing will collapse, then the grandiose self-deluded idea men with no skills will show up…
Mmm, can’t wait for them to start re-domesticating agricultural animals and grains. And smelting metal.
Yeah, about that, you don’t actually know anything. You’re the ignorance we’re trying to fight.
Alright now I realize I don’t sojourn into all the threads where this guy hangs out - but doesn’t he self identify as one of those types of people described by Giraffe? (though not explicitly of course - only through my indirect inference could I draw such unkind and assumptive conclusions)
So him calling out Giraffe’s characterization of Beck’s utopia as “ass-backwards” is quite what one would expect; no?
Unless Rand Rover’s actually a welder/electrician/plumber/carpenter and he just doesn’t come across that way. Cuz I didn’t know you could be both rich and skilled in manual labor. Kind of a one or the other type of thing…
Unless I am misremembering, RR is a tax lawyer. Yes, yes there is enormous cognitive dissonance happening there. But more importantly, if they managed to truly go Galt, he would have no place there for his chosen career. His primary skillset would not be applicable to the utopia proposed by his name sake. Kind of tragic in a way. He has spent his life ensuring if that dream did come true, he could only watch from the outside.
Well, if the literary Galt’s Gulch is any guide, Rand Rover should be eagerly grateful to work for someone else of greater skill. Isn’t this the attitude of Andrew Stockton, a character who sets up a foundry in the Gulch and anticipates that when Henry Rearden gets there, Stockton will gladly work for him “as a cinder sweeper”?
As I recall, this was the only example of people in the Gulch with comparable skillsets (and thus the potential for competition). Everyone else had set up their little niche industries, though I recall wondering why Ellis Wyatt was glad to be able to produce 200 barrels a day of shale oil, when the valley could be handily powered by Galt’s static-electricity machine.
Anyway, would anyone else anticipating living in Beck’s utopia gladly accept having to do manual labour for somebody of greater skill, and being grateful for the opportunity?
A lot of people are happy to do manual labor for a living. But I doubt anyone in their right mind would want to do anything for, with, or near Glen Beck.
But, Shirley, there are exceptions? His indictment. Sentencing. Funeral. Any number of festive occasions.