GOING GALT IS THE NEW DISNEYLAND
Jan. 21st, 2013 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: Glenn Beck states his plans to create Independence, USA, a "city-theme park hybrid" that will marry "media, live events, small business stores, educational projects, charity, entertainment, news, information, and technology R&D".
The same week, another group announces plans to build The Citadel, an independent community featuring: "No credit check. No background check. Zero down payment. Zero interest. Zero property taxes.").
Gawker has the breakdown for you, if yr interested.
Both of them are essentially groups of people intending to “go Galt” and drop out of the American economic system (or, as they describe it, Cuba) in favor of independent Libertarian communes.
Well, the Citadel does. Beck’s idea sounds more like an Ayn Rand theme parkmoney pit business opportunity than any serious attempt to withdraw from the real world.
Either way, my reaction is the same: if you want to go Galt because yr terrified of the next four years of Obamastan, you go right ahead and do that.
Just be advised that, as John Scalzi has already pointed out, you don’t actually live in an Ayn Rand novel, so be prepared for disappointment when no one notices yr gone.
Bon voyage,
This is dF
The same week, another group announces plans to build The Citadel, an independent community featuring: "No credit check. No background check. Zero down payment. Zero interest. Zero property taxes.").
Gawker has the breakdown for you, if yr interested.
Both of them are essentially groups of people intending to “go Galt” and drop out of the American economic system (or, as they describe it, Cuba) in favor of independent Libertarian communes.
Well, the Citadel does. Beck’s idea sounds more like an Ayn Rand theme park
Either way, my reaction is the same: if you want to go Galt because yr terrified of the next four years of Obamastan, you go right ahead and do that.
Just be advised that, as John Scalzi has already pointed out, you don’t actually live in an Ayn Rand novel, so be prepared for disappointment when no one notices yr gone.
Bon voyage,
This is dF
