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"John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957)."

What I meant was: Who is John Galt?

A fictional character.

Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.

If only it were so! Profound confusion would be much easier to spot in a world that worked like that.