An explorer, the greatest explorer that ever lived. The man who found
the fountain of youth.John Galt spent years looking for it. He crossed
oceans, and he crossed deserts, and he went down into forgotten mines,
miles under the earth.But he found it on the top of a mountain. It
broke every bone in his body, it tore the skin off his hands, it made
him lose his home, his name, his love.But he climbed it. He found
the fountain of youth, which he wanted to bring down to men. Only he
never came back.
Why didn't he?
Because he found that it couldn't be brought down.
Who is John Galt?
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of
being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire
of the gods, he broke his chains and he withdrew his fire -- until
the day when men withdraw their vultures....
only to the extent which -- in chains, in dungeo in hidden
corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders --
some men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able
to survive ....
Once there was a little nerd who loved to read your mail
And then yank back the i-access times to get hackers off his tail,
And once as he finished reading from the secretary's spool,
He wrote a rude rejection to her boyfriend (how uncool!...