{"id":11470,"date":"2010-03-02T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2010-06-26T09:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T16:41:38","slug":"splendorquest-should-we-celebrate-john-galt-day-on-june-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11470\/splendorquest-should-we-celebrate-john-galt-day-on-june-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"SplendorQuest: Should we celebrate John Galt Day on June 1st?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this coming on four years ago, one of my last posts to PresenceOfMind.net<\/a>, my philosophical\/political\/literary home on the web. The planned strike of our undocumented friends has come and gone, but the underlying idea — a strike against the looters on June 1st — still resonates with me. What say you? Is this something worth pursuing? –GSS<\/em><\/p>\n

 
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Francisco looked silently out at the darkness. The fire of the mills was dying down. There was only a faint tinge of red left on the edge of the earth, just enough to outline the scraps of clouds ripped by the tortured battle of the storm in the sky. Dim shapes kept sweeping through space and vanishing, shapes which were branches, but looked as if they were the fury of the wind made visible.<\/p>\n

“It’s a terrible night for any animal caught unprotected on that plain,” said Francisco D’Anconia. “This is when one should appreciate the meaning of being a man.” –Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The photo above is the Sonoran Desert, a vast unpopulated wasteland in the midst of which is Metropolitan Phoenix, home to three million children of Cain.<\/p>\n

Contrary to popular opinion, the desert was not designed by Walt Disney, and it will kill you with a blithe indifference if you make even one small mistake. If you have never been to the desert, you do not have a referent for solitude. Far more than the serenity that comes from a fundamental awareness of your own aloneness, true solitude must carry with it at least a tinge of fear. When you experience a silence so total that you can hear the footfalls of a tiny lizard fifty yards away, you also come to realize that no one, no one, no one will hear you if you shout for help. Twist an ankle and you die. Lose the path and you die. Misjudge the weather and you die. Set you hand where you should not — and you die.<\/p>\n

And yet I can go to the desert on a lark, armed as a child of Cain with nothing but two bottles of water, a tank Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this coming on four years ago, one of my last posts to PresenceOfMind.net, my philosophical\/political\/literary home on the web. The planned strike of our undocumented friends has come and gone, but the underlying idea — a strike against the looters on June 1st — still resonates with me. What say you? 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