But, putting philosophy aside for the moment, Atlas Shrugged is just a novel, and it was set in a time before air travel became common, before Sputnik’s first orbit signaled the beginning of the end of planetary privacy, when the chance of a hidden valley or an uncharted desert isle was still a possibility.
So then, if the idea is that an LFC example should be created then along with the mechanical, procedural and practical “how?” we must also consider the where. Today, here and now, on this planet with our current technology with reasonable and rational considerations for our world as it is... where is John Galt?
Hi Zip, it's me (RA). Just wanted to sign in and say I agree and am already searching for the best location.
ReplyDeleteWell RA, welcome. Hope you jump right in an add your opinions.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Zip
We could buy some uninhabitted island in the Pacific for a symbolical price from the country that owns it, since they have no use of it anyway. Good climate, isolatedness, probably no diseases. Although setting up the industry maybe tricky, it's the best choice to avoid big attention after we settle in. Maybe some of the Pacific Countries are failed...
ReplyDeleteLooking around there are a lot of uninhabited Islands in both the Pacific and Atlantic and although I doubt any Country would sell part of their sovereign territory for a nominal price I'm sure some would sell for a large one (specifically thinking of some of the more impoverished Micronesian states).
ReplyDeleteAnother big problem with unoccupied territories is that a lot of them are claimed by 1st World powers (UK, France, the USA) and of those a good percentage are also designated as "World Wildlife Refuges" or "World Heritage Sites".
This sort of UN/Eco sponsored foolishness places the habitat of the South Pacific Bearded Lobster or some such evolutionary has been in front and above the human beings of the planet... But that is their philosophy writ large...
To think of Man last and least.