"For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who dread knowledge—I am the man who will now tell you …
(Which portion(s) of Atlas Shrugged best illustrate this paragraph from Galt’s Speech?)(Referenced source.)
In my opinion, the train-wreck illustrates the ultimate consequences of evasion, negation, and the sense of duty on the part of the common worker who knows no better than to follow orders.
Atlas Shrugged opens with the question “Who is John Galt?” and reiterates the question and proposes various answers to the question with the book ultimately leading to John Galt publicly addressing the question in the chapter, “This Is John Galt Speaking.”
John Galt essentially owns up to being the cause behind the national crisis as he sets forth to contrast it using his world view as the source of his motivation.