FINAL WARNING: The Illuminati Influence on International Affairs
lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York
go out, we would know that our job was done.”Galt led the men of the mind, on strike, and they retired to a self-
supporting valley, where a character, Midas Mulligan, says that “the
world is falling apart so fast that it will soon be starving. But we will be
able to support ourselves in this valley.” Galt said: “There is only one
kind of men who have never been on strike in human history ... the
men who have carried the world on their shoulders, have kept it alive,
have endured torture as sole payment ... Well, their turn has come. Let
the world discover who they are, what they do and what happens when
they refuse to function. This is the strike of the men of the mind.”The book describes what resulted from the strike: “But years later,
when we saw the lights going out, one after another, in the great
factories that had stood like mountains for generations, when we saw
the gates closing and the conveyer belts turning still, when we saw the
roads growing empty and the streams of cars draining off, when it
began to look as if some silent power were stopping the generators of
the world and the world was crumbling quietly...” And the culmination
of their efforts: “The plane was above the peaks of the skyscrapers
when suddenly, with the abruptness of a shudder, as if the ground had
parted to engulf it, the city had disappeared from the face of the earth.
It took them a moment to realize that the panic had reached the power
stations- and the lights of New York had gone out.” The men of the
mind had taken over the world.Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged, which was a bestseller; had
previously written We the Living (1936); The Fountainhead (1943),
which became a 1949 movie starring Gary Cooper as an architect
willing to blow up his own work, rather than see it perverted by public
housing bureaucrats; and Anthem (1946). She later wrote For the New
Intellectual (1961), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), and The New
Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1970). She also published a
monthly journal (with Nathaniel Branden, a psychological theorist)
called The Objectivist.Rand based her novel on her philosophy which she calls Objectivism.
As she puts it: “We are the radicals for capitalism ... because it is the
only system geared to the life of a rational being ... The method of