Quick Newsflash.

Okay, two bits of news I wanna tell whoever reads this. = D

1st : Honda F1 is now Brawn GP, having been bought over by the former Honda F1 team principal, Ross Brawn. Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button will be driving (Sorry, Senna. = ) ), and super-rushed testing has begun (with only 3 weeks left till Australia!).

2nd : The following caught my eye as it ambled past on my RSS ticker.

'Going Galt: Everyone's doing it!'

Being a self-proclaimed Rand buff, naturally, I clicky-clicked, and you should too.

Here's the link.

One bit really got to me:

"The point is that you are not John Galt. The point is that you are, at your best, Eddie Willers. You’re smart, hardworking, productive, and true. But you’re no creative genius and you take innovation — John Galt — for granted. You don’t even know who he is! And this eventually leaves you weeping on abandoned train tracks. "

- writer Will Wilkinson on 'Atlas Shrugged', Quoted from an article by Eric Etheridge, The Opinionator, NYT.

Whoa, deep.

Is it possible?

The point of a novel that has probably shaped me more than any other is that, no matter what I do I'll end up, at my best, 'weeping on abandoned train tracks'?

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Really?

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Nah.

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It also served to make me wonder what would happen if the Eddie Willers went on strike? Would the effect be as dramatic as when the John Galts go on strike? (I smell an essay which noone will end up reading.)

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Anyway. To end this post.

I do think the author of the passage, in arguing that the point of 'Atlas Shrugged' is that 'you are not John Galt', is rather misguided.

Nope.

Instead, I take Atlas Shrugged as, ultimately, a tale of hope.

Yes, hope.

Hope that John Galts are possible and that there are minds out there worth the effort of communicating with.

And, watching MTV and E!, and reading the paper, that hope is what gives me a reason to get up in the mornings.