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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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Subject: Who Is John Galt?
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Date: 2 Jul 90 16:08:21 GMT
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John Galt is a sort of Buckminster Fuller on cocaine: an eccentric
engineer who mixes philosophy and engineering in equal doses ... but
instead of a sort of proto new-age without the flakiness, Galt's
philosophy is a aggressive mix of social darwinism and sociobiology.
 
Oh yes, he's also only a character in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", a
political statement thinly disguised as fiction.