rssYou’ve Got Galt
Monday, March 09, 2009 at 1:22 pm
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The Village Voice’s correspondent-on-the-right, Roy Edroso, does another round-up of conservatives and libertarians who want to “go Galt” as President Obama grows more left-wing and redistributive. After a lot of mockery, there’s this pithy point:
The triumph of capitalism to be found in the Galt schtick is of a more traditional kind: It excites the troops and drives them to increase rightbloggers’ web traffic. (Not to mention their t-shirt sales.) In modern America, revolution is something you sell to suckers to get them to buy your products. Go Galt, like Go Gulf and Go Greyhound, is not a battle cry — it’s a marketing slogan.
This isn’t a new phenomenon. The last few years have seen a number of conservative insta-causes spring up, be proclaimed as the awakening of a silent majority, and be marketed like crazy … before sort of sputtering out. Think of the “Drill Baby Drill” mania of last year, the Palin merchandise industry, and the cult of Joe the Plumber.
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7 Comments
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
It’s not wealth the common man is seeking. It is worth.
The common citizen feels lacking in worth. Nothing we have done seems to result in a fair shake. We don’t want hand-outs, we don’t want rigged shell-game mortgages. We only want to contribute to the country and have it make something meaningful.
Your Galt may be successful, but he just shrinks the pie. And economically sodomizes the rest of us.
I would be far happier if ‘free enterprise’ actually did work like your Adam Smith said it would
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
Sure. If the revolution won't be televised, how are we supposed to sell advertising?
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 7:33 pm
It’s not wealth the common man is seeking. It is worth.
The common citizen feels lacking in worth. Nothing we have done seems to result in a fair shake. We don’t want hand-outs, we don’t want rigged shell-game mortgages. We only want to contribute to the country and have it make something meaningful.
Your Galt may be successful, but he just shrinks the pie. And economically sodomizes the rest of us.
I would be far happier if ‘free enterprise’ actually did work like your Adam Smith said it would
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 8:45 pm
Sure. If the revolution won't be televised, how are we supposed to sell advertising?
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[...] David Wiegel makes a point that this phenomenen is another conservative insta-cause sprung up by the awakening of a silent majority, but that this idea of revolution will become more of a marketing slogan. Consider last year’s “Drill Baby Drill” mania, the Palin merchandise industry and Joe the Plumber. Posted by thu85 Filed in Uncategorized [...]
Comment posted September 8, 2010 @ 2:03 am
Kibbe has walked that number back, crediting the mistake to misinformation on Twitter, and that leaves ABC’s estimate of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters as the one that most media are using.
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 5:37 am
‘Sure. If the revolution won’t be televised, how are we supposed to sell advertising? ’
I AGREE WITH YOUR IDEA.
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