�Do you ever wonder,� wrote Dr. Helen Smith, �after dealing with all that is going on with the economy and the upcoming election, if it�s getting to be time to �go John Galt?��
It is October 12, 2008 and inspired by Barack Obama�s curbside debate with Joe the Plumber � and the likelihood of his election to the presidency � Smith, a forensic psychologist in Knoxville, Tenn., was tossing the readers of her blog a serious question. It had been years since she had read �Atlas Shrugged.� �I had to refresh my memory with the Cliffs Notes,� she said on Thursday in an interview. But the themes of Ayn Rand�s 1957 novel, and the themes of the climactic 40-page speech by self-imposed social outcast �John Galt�, had stuck with her.
The themes had stuck with her readers, too....
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