Wendy McElroy gives what seems to me a pretty good breakdown of the difference between “Going Galt” and “Gulching” and explains why she prefers that first thing.
Me, I’m more of a gulcher. Though the word is obviously derived from Atlas Shrugged, I believe it was coined by our very own Claire. To my amusement, it was deleted from Wikipedia in 2009 as an “Aynrandian neologism.”
Good. Disappearance is good, when you’re a gulcher. Of course that doesn’t explain why I sit here and blog about it day after day, but you know what Emerson said about foolish consistency.
Some of us still caught behind the barbed wire read your blog to vicariously enjoy the freedom you’ve found, as well as the occasional comic relief 🙂