Kirk was a meteorologist for the CRU?
Beam me up, Scotty. I’m tired of this s*it.
Kirk: "KAHN!!!!!!!"
I miss the Shat.....
Consider someone who actually lived: George Washington. He backed away from many conflicts to save his Army to fight again on another day on his own terms. When the time was right, he hit back - HARD and completely by surprise.
You don’t have to choose Kirk or Galt. You can be a Washington.
It doesn’t matter who you follow.....just stay well away from the fifth person in the five-man landing party!!
You mean like Ayn Rand did? While confronting the evil of collectivism she justified the removal of the sanction of the victim. Kirk and Galt, combined.
The writer neglects to add that the “rebooted Star Trek” is an insane failure of a drama in which cadets are given command of capital ships, the timeline is twisted for dramatic effect (i.e. lazy writing), and idiotic special effects substitute for the real physical universe. “Star Trek” is what many have become: observers who want to be taken care of despite reality. And as many of us know, reality is something that is strictly enforced, sooner or later.
Now Kirk....he's real.....or.....ummmm.....er.....will be real!
How many hot, green, alien chicks did John Galt get it on with?
Yes.
I'm thinking, "walk" until AFTER the collapse, then fight like hell to re-establish the Constitution, with the following small changes:
1) A line item veto for the president will be included.
2) Term limits for both houses of congress will be dictated.
3) NO mention of "the General Welfare" shall appear anywhere in the document. It has proven too confusing for some to understand.
4) The phrase "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" will be removed from the Bill of Rights.
5) The death penalty shall be mandated for ANY elected federal official who accepts money from ANY individual or corporation lobbying for ANY legislation; said penalty shall be carried out via hanging by the neck until dead on a gallows constructed on the front steps of the Capitol building for the express purpose of executing corrupt elected federal officials.
This country does not need the right people in place to run smoothly or improve even more. It needs a govt that lives within the rules. Courts that jealously defend the letter of the law. Lawmakers that work within the rules and guard against the Judiciary and the Executive, and a strong Executive with the fear of being kicked out of office if he steps on the toes of either one.
Of course we need upstanding people within these branches, but mostly we just need rules that are followed. Wouldn't it be nice if govt was out of line, you could handle it locally? States rights, they are important and are the keystone of our Republic. Too bad those idiots in Europe haven't figured out that if they emulated the US in its early years, they could have both a strong Republic, and a strong voice within their homeland.
America's founding fathers were mostly strong Christians, (that can only be argued otherwise, if you ignore their writings and what contemporaries wrote about them.) But Benjamin Franklin leaned towards Deism, a belief that God may have created, but other than that he has kept his hands off. After the great conflict of the revolution and with time for reflection, it was Benjamin Franklin that called for daily prayer citing that God does listen and answer our prayers as they all knew and experianced. In other words, he changed his mind.
It is not ungodly to be in conflict against evil, it is our heratige. Conflict seems to have a way of clarifiing our thinking like nothing else. It is good and right to take the Fascists head on, and now is the time. The outcome is in God's hands, and whatever it is, we can not lose.
So the resigning governor Sarah “Shrugged” just like Ayn Rand’s John Galt, then, di’n’t she?
That's the problem with fiction. It's easy to set up your own boogeyman and then knock them down.
In real life, it's the heads of industry that are the looters and they aren't likely to follow someone like Galt.
The question, of course, is a metaphor for the real one, does one fight or try nonviolent civil disobedience first? That assumes there is a choice. Given the proclivity of the Left for bloodshed toward class enemies, we may not have one.