I finally noticed today that my coworker who sits next to me has a Lululemon bag on his desk. His girlfriend works at the Lululemon headquarters just a few blocks from our studio. The thing that caught my eye on the bag was "Who is John Galt?" I wonder why a Lululemon bag would have the name of the main character from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" until I Googled that the company's founder is a big fan of Ayn Rand's books and philosophy. From the company's blog:
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson is insane. He has had to step aside because of it, but I assume in his time he managed to stack the company with like minded people.
The best part of that article is how Landm@rk clearly stepped in an threatened to sue the shit out of the author (as they are want to do) and forced a retraction that they almost certainly wrote.
Didn't John Galt just run away from an unfriendly system instead of fighting it or trying to change it to the better? What a hero!
Company sure sounds confused. What kind of bloated parasite do you have to be to need John Galt cheering you on? The rational selfish objective man has no benefit for trying to convince collectivist mediocretins to try to improve themselves; improving oneself is driven entirely by oneself with no need for some other person's encouragement and handholding. A is A! /traces sign of dollar, drops mic, walks offstage.
Worse, he stole his company's property when he did so. Pretty much everything he does at the start of the novel is the antithesis of modern capitalism.
I do really like being able to control how much money I make, though. Whenever I see a homeless person asking for change I say to them "Why are you asking people for spare change? Don't you know that you can control how much money you make?"
Holy crap. Ugh...I got a friend who got into that. I get calls from him about once a month where he's reading from a script trying to get me to come to one of the things. So sad.
You know RyanMM, with Landmark Forum, you will stop being a milquetoast tourist in your own life. The kind of watcher who perceived yourself locked out of being involved with anything or anyone, ashamed to be yourself I guess you could say. In The Landmark Forum sometime around the middle of the first day, that experience of shame and need to hide from others and just passively observe your own life will disappear. Gone. Leave The Landmark Forum and go back to your life and find for the first time you'll see yourself as others see you, You will be really ok. You'll start dating, enjoying going to nightclubs and dancing, and participating in group conversations like you never had before. Just these things will be worth 5 million $ to you. The Landmark Forum is the best thing you'll ever do.
