"Closer to the truth than you realize." Apparently so - I wrote the initial comment based on my loose recollection of reading the book a few years ago. Looking

"Closer to the truth than you realize." Apparently so - I wrote the initial comment based on my loose recollection of reading the book a few years ago. Looking up the big speech the Galt character gives in Atlas Shrugged, it's amazing how much of it relates. This paragraph in particular reads like it could have been pg's battle cry against soul-sucking faceless corporations that demand all of your creativity and trust none of your judgement: "While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of justice, of independence, of reason, of wealth, of self-esteem — I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp. I showed them the way to live by another morality — mine. It is mine that they chose to follow." http://compuball.com/Inquisition/AynRand/galtspeech_pmark_broken.htm http://compuball.com/Inquisition/AynRand/galtspeech_pmark_br... For the less literary-minded, Fight Club has also been inspiration for a few of my friends in a similar way.