I received via snail mail, an advertisement from Omaha Steaks company. The return address was xxxx John Galt Blvd, Omaha Ne. The envelope was carefully prepared to look personal, not another mass mailing. It even had a stick-on stamp, uncancelled, no postmark. The tech for this is so common that it has no positive effect now, just more advertising silliness.
I read Atlas Shrugged as a sincerely ignorant teenager. I swallowed it all with enthusiasm. At nearly the same time I read James Baldwin's Go Tell it On The Mountain. I could not make heads or tails of it. It was completely beyond me. Now I believe Baldwin had a much better handle on the ills of the world and what to do about it than did Ayn Rand. What puzzles me is how a merchant selling mail order to the general public would not take that address as a commercial handicap.
Does Omaha have a John Birch Drive?
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Who Is John Galt?
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Re: Who Is John Galt?
Omaha Steaks isn't the only company on John Galt Blvd in Omaha.
College Hunks hauling Junk and Moving
Ebay & PayPal Graphcs
KBBX Radio 97.7FM
Curley Immigration Law
AseraCare Pallative Care (a hospice provider)
Election Systems & Software
Option HeathCare pharmacy
along with several real estate, legal, and tech companies.
Some of those might be worse associations with Atlas Shrugged than a mail order meat company.
It's possible it could be a different John Galt - This one was a Scottish author.
Now, Johngalt Ct in Roseville, CA probably DOES commemorate Atlas Shrugged; considering the nearby streets: Rand Way, which in turn intersects Taggert Ct., Reardon Ct. and Francisco Ct. Though the spelling is wrong on 2 of them.
The only John Birch Drive I found quickly was in Vermont, near Readsboro, less than a mile north of the Massachusetts border.
College Hunks hauling Junk and Moving
Ebay & PayPal Graphcs
KBBX Radio 97.7FM
Curley Immigration Law
AseraCare Pallative Care (a hospice provider)
Election Systems & Software
Option HeathCare pharmacy
along with several real estate, legal, and tech companies.
Some of those might be worse associations with Atlas Shrugged than a mail order meat company.
It's possible it could be a different John Galt - This one was a Scottish author.
Now, Johngalt Ct in Roseville, CA probably DOES commemorate Atlas Shrugged; considering the nearby streets: Rand Way, which in turn intersects Taggert Ct., Reardon Ct. and Francisco Ct. Though the spelling is wrong on 2 of them.
The only John Birch Drive I found quickly was in Vermont, near Readsboro, less than a mile north of the Massachusetts border.
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Re: Who Is John Galt?
From https://www.vuomaha.com:
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And as near as I can tell, this was written and posted sometime around 2017 by — surprise!! — Ron Abboud.John Galt Boulevard was named in the early 1970s by real estate developer and commercial investment real estate broker Ron Abboud. Ron Abboud was a 50% owner and developer of Empire Park. Empire Park is located between L & Q Streets, from 108th to Interstate I-80.
Among the first few buildings constructed, in the Empire Park development was the Honeywell Building (today it is called the Metropolitan Business Center, at 11128 John Galt Blvd).
Among some of the many great companies Ron Abboud brought to the Empire Park development were Ford Motor Company headquarters, Allstate Insurance main office, the Omaha Inn, Omaha Steaks, and Honeywell, just to name a few.
The book Ron Abboud enjoyed the most was Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. “Who is John Galt?” is the opening line, and Galt is the hero in the Rand classic, which extols economic individualism and motivates individuals to get ahead by creating new products and services that benefit society as a whole.
In the novel "Atlas Shrugged" foresees the decline of “men of the mind” and the decline of civilization as we know it. It sets the stage for the birth of a new hidden world run by men of the mind. The hero, John Galt, invented the kinetic engine — a motor that runs on electro-magnetism and it was suppressed…
The final movie of the three part saga will spell out the final ending of the book. I will not spoil it here, so you will need to buy the book or wait until the movie comes out.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Re: Who Is John Galt?
This brings back "50 Shades of Jay", our resident Ayn Rand promoter and self styled objectivist libertarian. I haven't thought of him for a long time, but he was resolute in this pursuit. Indeed, I am not sure if he ever posted here, but he was a major presence on at least many of the predecessors. If I am not mistaken, he passed away quite a while back.
While many of us alive in the 60s read Rand (I know I did and even thought of her works as deep and compelling (then I grew up), but other than for the diminishing number of people who saw the movie The Fountainhead most have no idea who she is (used to use Howard Roark as an example of moral rights in my classes, but I had to describe his story as most had never heard of him).
While many of us alive in the 60s read Rand (I know I did and even thought of her works as deep and compelling (then I grew up), but other than for the diminishing number of people who saw the movie The Fountainhead most have no idea who she is (used to use Howard Roark as an example of moral rights in my classes, but I had to describe his story as most had never heard of him).