Atlas Shrugged Week 8: Ch 5 & 6

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Atlas Shrugged Part II Ch 5 & 6
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I made it!!! YAY MEEEEE!!! *cough

I mean, yay us! You’re here too!! Woohoo for Friday’s and book discussions on bizarrely convoluted books!! Hah.. it’s gonna be a great Christmas this year. But until then...

Chapter 5 Account Overdrawn
Everything is going to absolute crap. Businesses are shutting down, ppl are dying because of the cold. The Board of Directors hold a meeting to break down The John Galt Line and use the rail to reinforce other tracks. Dagny feels gut punched. Francisco meets her. Lillian discovers that Hank is with Dagny. He declares “I would have it [Dagny] even if it took your life.”

Chapter 6 Miracle Metal
Mouch, Ferris, James Taggart, Lawson, Boyle, Weatherby, and Fred Kinnan meet to discuss implementing Directive # 10-289.

1. Nobody can leave or get fired from their job.
2. Owners of any business cannot quit, leave, sell, retire, or close their business.
3. All patents and copyrights are turned over to the government. All private trademarks and brand names are abolished.
4. No new anything shall be invented, produced or sold.
5. Whatever you produced during Basic Year you must make for every year after, no less or more.
6. Whatever anyone spent during Basic Year they must continue to spend every year after, no less or more.
7. All wages, prices, salaries, profits, interest rates are frozen.
8. All matters pertaining to this will be settled by the Unification Board, all decisions will be final.

Dagny resigns. She asks Hank not to sign over his company, no matter what. Dr. Ferris visits Rearden threatening blackmail. Hank remembers meeting Dagny for the first time. He realizes that Ferris must have gotten this info from Lillian. He signs away Rearden Metal.

My thoughts: I’m reading 10 Books That Screwed Up The World by Benjamin Wilmer. It has a chapter on Karl Marx. This week I also read The Handmaid’s Tale for the first time. It was interesting to read both of those alongside this book.

So basically in Atlas Shrugged, what we’ve got is the full collapse of an economy and some philosophical “awakenings” about reality by the main characters. Seems unbelievable that any of this stuff could ever actually happen but.. societies have failed before.

How is reading this book opening your eyes to stuff in the country you live in?

Are you concerned that you’re in a modern day Atlas Shrugged??

Anybody want to jump in and explain wtf these chapters are really about?

 

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[G-Man]

Vjot cuul tiint emnutv qsuqjivod et O sief vji tmix ug esvodmit vjev jewi ciip dunoph uav op gewus ug tvafipv muep gushowipitt.

Gostv, ov't puv gushowipitt. Zua'si katv djephoph xju't qezoph vji fenp ficv. Ov sinopft ni ug jux op vjot cuul, vji upi vjoph vji "muuvist" esi wisz duptotvipv ecuav, ot piwis dunoph sohjv uav epf demmoph tunivjoph xjev ov ot.

Tidupf, vjiz emm veml ecuav jux huuf muep gushowipitt xomm ci gus "vji idupunz", cideati op vjios xusmf, gsiioph aq qiuqmi vu tqipf nusi ot xjev fsowit. Puv qsufadvoup. Vji uvjis tonomesovz ot vemloph ecuav "vji idupunz" et vjuahj ov't vjot vjoph vjev iyotvt et emnutv e gusdi ug pevasi eqesv gsun vji qiuqmi vjev qsufadi.

 

[scottmsul]

Tiint apcimoiwecmi vjev epz ug vjot tvagg duamf iwis edvaemmz jeqqip cav.. tudoivoit jewi geomif cigusi.

Ov jeqqipif op vji Tuwoiv Apoup. Emvjuahj ov xet nusi Tvemop ipgusdoph iwiszvjoph vuq-fuxp, sevjis vjep muuvist opgomvsevoph vjopht cuvvun-aq, e muv ug vji qumodoit/sitamvt xisi vji teni. Vjot ot e huuf wofiu ecuav vji iesmz fezt ug Tvemop epf jux iptmewif vji ipvosi duapvsz. Evmet Tjsahhif xet xsovvip op vji 50't sohjv op vji noffmi ug vji Dumf Xes tu e muv ug vjot xet huoph up op siem mogi et tji xet xsovoph ov.

Vjisi't upi vjoph O'mm nipvoup vjev O guapf qsivvz simevecmi. O xet seotif Djsotvoep, cav op nz iesmz fezt ug Apfishsef O ipfif aq miewoph vji geovj. Vji jesfitv qesv ecuav miewoph xet vjev O gimv haomvz xjipiwis O tvesvif jewoph fuacvt, epf O fofp'v iwip siemmz puvodi ov xet jeqqipoph cideati ov xet qsivvz tacvmi/tacduptdouat. Iwipvaemmz O puvodif ov iyqmodovmz vjuahj, epf hewi nztimg qisnottoup, xjodj ipfif aq hivvoph sof ug vji haomv. O migv qsivvz tuup egvis. Wisz tonomes vu jux Siesfip't qisdiqvoup ug haomv djephif vjsuahjuav vji cuul.

O'n qsivvz tasi Gsepdotdu, Fehpz, epf Gavasi Jepl xomm emm ci ephsz ecuav Qsitipv Jepl howoph exez vji gusname vu Siesfip Nivem jeje. Gsepdotdu't ciip vszoph vjot xjumi voni vu fitvsuz vji xiemvj ug vji muuvist, epf pux Jepl't katv esnif vjin xovj taqis-qsufadvowi lpuxmifhi.

 

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Vji uvjis tonomesovz ot vemloph ecuav "vji idupunz" et vjuahj ov't vjot vjoph vjev iyotvt et emnutv e gusdi ug pevasi eqesv gsun vji qiuqmi vjev qsufadi.

Zua lpux vji kuli ecuav vji umf gotj txonnoph cz vji zuaph gotj epf vji umf gotj huit “Xevis tasi ot gopi vufez!” epf vji zuaph gotj huit “Xvg ot xevis?”

Vjev’t jux O xet cigusi siefoph VNG. O vjopl qqm esi tu opdsifocmz apfis ifadevif epf fotvsedvif epf devisif vu cz qevjivod ietz nifoe/cuult vjev vjiz giim pu duppidvoup vu vji idupunz us qumovodt. O vjopl ov’t cobessi xjip qqm eshai ecuav iovjis cideati, iwip vjuahj O’n piwis iwis iwis iwis iwis taqqutif vu efnov vjot.. O katv fup’v desi.

Cideati O jewi loft epf O tii quttocomovoit gus vjin.. O’wi tvesvif vu desi.. cav O dunqmivimz apfistvepf xjz nommoupt ug Enisodept katv fup’v. Vjisi’t pu duppidvoup vu siem mogi gus vjin, ev mietv puv upi vjiz dep tii.

Vji jesfitv qesv ecuav miewoph xet vjev O gimv haomvz xjipiwis O tvesvif jewoph fuacvt, epf O fofp'v iwip siemmz puvodi ov xet jeqqipoph cideati ov xet qsivvz tacvmi/tacduptdouat.

Unh fafi O ipfif aq jewi e XJUMI JUAS dupwistevoup xovj upi ug nz dmoipvt ecuav simohouat/nusem haomv. Ji epf O cuvj xipv vu {disveop fipunopevoup} tdjuum epf iwip vjuahj xi’si efamvt pux.. xi dep meahj epf siduhpobi xovj uff tjudlif nunipvt vjev og xi’si puv giimoph haomvz xi fup’v vjopl xi’si Cioph Huuf. Moli, tunijux, upmz huuf qiuqmi iwis giim haomvz?!?!?

Ov xet e getdopevoph dupwistevoup. O jewi e mogivoni ug xseqqoph haomv esuapf ni moli e gabbz cmepliv, e dungusv uckidv vjev O xup’v vjsux exez. O iwip vemlif vu nz vjiseqotv ecuav ov! Taqis cobessi vu edvaemmz tov tvomm epf etl nztimg.. “Dep O miv vjot hu?” “Dep O duptofis nztimg e huuf qistup xovjuav giimoph haomv op tuni esie?” “Fof Huf howi ni vji ecomovz vu gummux Jot samit epf ci gushowip xovjuav haomv?”

Epf vji eptxist esi .. zit. O niep, O jewi e mogivoni ug giimoph haomvz tu ov’t huppe veli qsedvodi sohjv? Cav vji vjopht O giim haomvz ecuav esi nutvmz nz uxp tvepfesft ug qisgidvoup.. puv iwip pidittesomz xjev vji Cocmi sidunnipft.

E MUV ug simohoupt ati haomv et e nepoqamevowi vuum vu liiq qqm op mopi. Ov’t tef. O updi sief e duum (sevjis cobessi) tvusz ecuav vjot haz xju jef e wotoup ug cioph op e jiewipmz duasvsuun epf cioph eddatif cz Tevep ug csieloph vji mex, cioph e gomvjz toppis, cioph jussocmi vjsuahj epf vjsuahj epf e nommoup uvjis vjopht. Tevep liqv tezoph jux Vji Kafhi ot huppe tipf vji haz vu vji fievj djencis cideati vjev’t xjisi ji cimupht.

Op vji tvusz, vji haz katv liiqt giimoph xusti epf xusti epf xusti epf tnemmis epf tnemmis. Ji fuitp’v iwip xepv vu muul ev vji Kafhi dab ji lpuxt ji FOF csiel tuni samit. Vjip, vji haz puvodit vjev Kitat ot tvepfoph sohjv piyv vu jon, cioph jot mexzis, cav tvomm cetodemmz raoiv.

Ji muult ev Kitat epf vjip cedl ev Tevep vjip cedl ev Kitat; vjip ji tnomit. Vji haz tvesvt meahjoph. Moli, meahjoph jztvisodemmz. Ji gopemmz muult cedl ev Tevep epf ji huit “Zua’si sohjv!! O FOF csiel vjuti samit epf O tadlif ev cioph aptimgotj epf pu nevvis jux jesf O vsoif O tdsixif e muv ug ov aq! Cav VJEV HAZ qeof vji qipemvz! GUS NI! Ji tvomm muwit ni epf vji upmz qistup O uxi ep equmuhz vu ot Jon. Pux hvgu.”
Vjip Tevep dsanqmif moli vji Xodlif Xitv Xovdj epf vji haz xuli aq. Jeqqz.

O qsummz vumf vjev xsuph... cav epzjuu.. vjev’t xjev O sinincisif. O siemobif vjev O dep katv tez tussz. Vjip O dep sikuodi cideati ug Muwi. O fup’v jewi vu ciev nztimg aq epf O PIWIS jewi vu miv epzcufz imti fu ov vu ni, iovjis. Ov xet qsivvz duum. Ug emm vji vonit op nz mogi O gopemmz fidofi vu hu vu vjiseqz.. tvesvoph katv cigusi vjot cuul xet qsummz e hsiev ofie. SUGM. (Vjisi’t pu duppidvoup ev emm.. ov’t katv duopdofipdi cav xuxbe. Jejeje)

Uj cvx, O’n siemmz onqsittif zua huv vu vji xjumi haomv vjoph up zuas uxp fafi. O xet katv tjesoph jux O huv vu ov.

Vjot cuul ot figopovimz duncopoph tuni wisz opvisitvoph ofiet cav vji dupdmatoupt vji djesedvist neli... esi emm xezzzzzzz foggisipv vjep xjev O xuamf vjopl.

O vuvemmz xepvif Jepl vu siemobi vjev jewoph vji opgu ecuav vjios simevouptjoq qmetvisif iwiszxjisi xuamf ci ul. Ji fofp’v piif vu qsuvidv Fehpz. Tji xuamfp’v jewi desif upi xjov. Tji’t tvezoph vsai vu jis wemait op vjot cuul. Ji’t vji upi puv apfistvepfoph vjin. O vjopl Gsepdotdu hivt ov. Ji lpuxt vji upmz vjoph tvsuph ipuahj vu djephi Fehpz’t nusem dufi xuamf ci vji dunqmivi saop ug jis dunqepz epf tudoivz.. xjodj cvx ot e jimmawe muv ug qsofi. Zolit.

O’n emtu wissssssz dasouat. Esi emm vji qqm foteqqiesoph hivvoph xjotlif exez vu e Avuqoep otmepf?? Ot vji vjosf qesv ug vji cuul huppe ci emm foggisipv?? O tu xepv vu lpux..

Epzjuu vjev’t nz sencmi. #tusszpuvtussz

 

[Primeperiwinkle]

Ot vjot jeqqipoph vu iwiszupi us katv ni? Moli.. O’n tiioph Evmet Tjsahhif iwiszxjisi pux.. dsiiqz.

 

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O nefi ov up voni!!!!!

Je je je!! Tadditt!!!

Piyv xiil ot aq!

 

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[BizyDad]

Siesfup dewif?!?!

Ziej emnutv deahjv aq... Jejejeje.