Atlas Shrugged: Do Not Adjust Your Set<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Alright now\u2026 just about time to turn on my super television hacking device that I invented\u2026 ah I can just imagine the looks on everyone\u2019s faces when I really start tearing into them. I mean objectively speaking a genius such as myself certainly could have saved everyone, if he really cared to, but why should I be burdened to do anything other than what I want? Which means that his gloating will, quite clearly, be what I want to do. Just one last switch to flip and\u2026
\n*Static*
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Wait a second\u2026 what\u2019s this? There\u2019s an even more powerful broadcast running on every single channel than my own? How is that\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Greetings to the people of the world. And to you especially Mr. Galt.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> YOU! How!?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh please, broadcasting a message to the entirety of the world? You\u2019re really stepping into my territory on this one. What you consider the pinnacle of your plan is usually just step one for me.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> But\u2026 but I had a big speech\u2026 a big speech I was going to give to everyone! EVERYONE!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh not to worry Johnny boy, I\u2019ve taken gone ahead and connected my broadcast to the microphone you\u2019ve set up. I just figured that since the public would really find your monologue to be quite\u2026 exhausting, well why not turn it into a dialogue?
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> You fiend! Of all the indignities and horrors of my life, never have I faced one as awful as being forced to share equal time with someone else! Why as soon as I
\n*Click*
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yes yes\u2026 I\u2019ve also taken the liberty of putting in an off switch for when you run your mouth on for too long. A good host should have a sense of timing after all, hm?
\n*Click*
\nJohn Galt:<\/b>\u2026 show everyone my superior intellect and charming\u2026
\n*Click*
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Ah getting to shut you up, this will be fun. In any case, to the people of the world. You know full well your lands are falling into chaos. Rioting, looting, disappearing industrialists. And with such an incurious media and incompetent leadership I, Cobra Commander, have taken it on myself to present to you the man responsible for your woes. I do this out of my great love and affection for you all, and as proof of my good heart I shall introduce you now, on live television, to the greatest villain in all the ages of the world. The man who has plotted not only how to become rich and powerful beyond wildest imaginings but has unnecessarily decided to destroy the world only to cement his hold upon it. John Galt.
\n*Click*
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> YOU STOLE MY INTRODUCTION! HOW DARE YOU!?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> So you don\u2019t deny it?
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> I vehemently deny being a villain! Also you left out the fact that I am the answer to \u2018Who is John Galt\u2019 which I think was a very incredibly clever question, considering the answer is John Galt which is really an encapsulation of objectivist\u2026
\n*Click*
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> But you don\u2019t object to the rest of what I\u2019ve said, do you?
\n*Click*
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Stop cutting me off! Also no. Still, really burns me up about the \u2018Who is John Galt\u2019 thing.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yes well I\u2019m sure the public will find a way to cope.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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