Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
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Why is Elon Musk being compared to John Galt?
Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Who is John Galt? What if I told you his name is Elon Musk? We talk about Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and how it connects to today's time. Mike Lee also joins the program, and we do a political and cultural introspection. Why are young women so, so Democrat? So liberal? We analyze and more. Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast application and type in Charlie Kirk Show. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Start a high school and college chapter today at tpusa.com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. In 1957, Ayn Rand published her book, Greatest work, Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand was a Soviet expat, a dissident. She understood collectivism rather well. I encourage you guys to read Atlas Shrugged.
It's not easy reading. It is very, very well written and thoughtfully put together. It is a novel. There is plenty of things that are goofy about the book, the overindulgence in the material and the flesh, the lack of a belief in the eternal and the divine, the worship of... let's just say immediate gratification. However, despite the fact that we do not agree with all of her views, she was an atheist after all, and a much more libertarian fundamentalist than we are. She was a supremely gifted writer and understood the left-wing mind better than almost any other author of the last 100 years. In the book Atlas Shrugged, it's a dystopian novel, and it paints a picture of what happens when a government is built on envy and resentment and collectivism. In the book Atlas Shrugged, it talks about what happens when there's burdensome laws and regulations and when you're able to find a singular person that you can pin all of your problems against.
The best characters in Rand's books are actually the villains. They are the perfect image of left-wing bureaucrats, academics, and parasites. People who can't build, but they try to gain mastery over those who do. In the book Atlas Shrugged, there is a quiet character who really does not emerge up until about two-thirds of the way through. And that is a guy by the name of John Galt. John Galt was an innovator. He's a builder. He did stuff. A risk taker. John Galt used his reason. He was non-ideological. He was a threat to the regime. John Galt famously gave his Galt's Galt speech, which goes on for like 55 pages, which really is Ayn Rand's personal philosophy. We have our own John Galt right now in America.
someone who was once celebrated by pop culture, someone who was once celebrated by mass media. And what Ayn Rand beautifully was able to put together in Atlas Shrugged is how a society turns on its innovators. Elon Musk was once admired broadly, especially by progressives, for his work with Tesla and SolarCity. Elon Musk was heralded as the innovator that will bring forward great new accomplishments. The future will be delivered by people like Elon Musk. But Musk's trajectory is eerily similar to that of John Galt in many ways. He went from an innovator to an enemy. Just like John Galt, Musk, of course, was wildly heralded.
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