The Apparent Danger of John Galt (Monica Rodriguez)

In my first blog post I mentioned my utter frustration whenever on of the characters, who are now referred to as looters, used the expression “who is John Galt”. I discussed how the use of this expression caused the looters to abandon their problems by giving up a question with no answer. Upon learning the origin of expression and who John Galt is I have realized that this expression is even more dangerous then I originally thought. The workers blamed John Galt for all of their problems because he told them that he would “put an end” to their system by stopping “the motor of the world”. John Galt, as well as the system the workers had voted for, made them develop an external locus of control, in which nothing could be their fault because everything was out of their hands. In feeling this the workers would just give up, not trying to fix any issues that arose, instead blaming them on John Galt, as though he where their scapegoat. Only further reading will shed light onto whether or not he actually had a direct role in the fall of the factory and the economy, however even if he did not personally cause the factories to fail, he contributed because of the way in which his name, and the expression it is a part of, causes people to just give up.