Atlas Shrugged: The Colossal Contradiction<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Alright I\u2019m kind of getting fed up with all this.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Well we good sir were already fed up! In fact we\u2019re the most fed up, objectively speaking.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> This isn\u2019t a competition.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> My good sir everything is a competition, and I\u2019m going to win this one the same way I\u2019ve won all my others, by hiding and declaring that I\u2019m the victor.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I don\u2019t know why I continue to feel compelled to argue but you realize that hiding doesn\u2019t mean winning right? You have to compete to win a competition.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Only if you aren\u2019t the best. My friends and I here are already the best, so the competition itself is merely perfunctory. Nothing but ceremony you see. Simply by existing we are the best, and we can prove it by not having to prove it.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Brilliantly circular logic as always.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> That\u2019s it, I\u2019m striking from this conversation!
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> And I\u2019m joining him!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Joining him in giving up? What courage.
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> Oh no not giving up. For you see morality\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> This isn\u2019t going to be some dumb monologue is it?
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> Rather short by our standards actually.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Fine, get on with it. I need some time to warm up the tractor anyway.
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> Ahem, as I was saying. Morality is best derived from smart people making useful things. Actually I\u2019m writing a book about it that would save the world if I ever let the world see it which I won\u2019t.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Not two words of what you said made any sense.
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> That\u2019s only because you haven\u2019t read my book.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I don\u2019t want to read your stupid book!
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> Fine! Because you can\u2019t anyway!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You know I\u2019d be upset that you\u2019re preventing the world from having access to a \u2018world saving invention\u2019, but I kind of think you\u2019re just not publishing that book because it\u2019s drivel.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Nonsense! It\u2019s objectively the greatest philosophy ever, because I came up with it!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You can\u2019t win at philosophy! That\u2019s not how philosophy works!
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> Nu-uh! Can too! We just don\u2019t feel like showing anyone because it\u2019s too super special to share with folks.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well anyway, from what I gathered through your nonsense basically you\u2019re saying the height of moral truth is for geniuses to make stuff. Useful stuff.
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> But of course.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> And despite my sincere disagreement of the title you yourself are a genius who is now not making anything.
\nHugh Akston:<\/b> Well\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> It\u2019s funny, because a lot of the people here I think of as monstrous jerks. But in your case I can\u2019t really think of you as being immoral or even amoral since I\u2019m pretty sure you\u2019re just an idiot.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Hey, stop making my strikers cry!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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