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Atlas Shrugged Part II Ch 7 & 8
Welcome to Friday!! Merry Christmas ppl! It’s a wonderful life! Hahaha.. here we go...
Ch 7 The Moratorium on Brains
Eddie talks to the mystery man and TELLS HIM WHERE DAGNY IS!!!! Rearden orders his lawyer to get him a divorce at any cost. Ragnar meets Rearden on the road and gives him a gold bar signifying much more wealth that Ragnar has been saving for him. Hank refuses to take it at first but then saves Ragnar by lying to the cops.
Several ppl demand things they shouldn’t leading weak-willed whiners to create an extremely unsafe situation and putting a terrifying responsibility on the shoulders of a young boy.
Every man, woman, and child left on the train were vehement adherents to UNthinking. They deserved what they found in the mountain. (SOOO dramatic aren’t I?!?!)
Chapter 8 By Our Love
Dagny is dealing w/ grief, alone, at her cabin when Francisco finds her to confess everything. Breaking news from the radio slices into their convo, informing her of the crash and she goes, rushing down the hillside, despite him begging her not to.
Dagny returns to her office to help the railroad. Jim slinks away, Eddie remains to assist her. Dagny faces the situation like a war torn general leading a broken army, she has no time for emotion. Dagny, yet again, relies on Hank to help her fight the great evil.
My thoughts: SUCH A CLIFFHANGER!!! GAH!!!
Thank goodness I can read more ASAP!
So we have a serious moral quandary, supposedly. Dagny can choose to give up on the thing she loves, abandoning it, because the entire country will just use her to help them while hating her for her accomplishments OR she can listen to Francisco and not go back.
This is fascinating. Thankfully, we don’t live in such a world where almost EVERYONE is unthinking, uncaring, impotent, arrogant, and worthless. Or do we? Hmmm.
So, there are only two types of people. Producers and Consumers. (Thanks MJ for telling me about that in a MUCH nicer way than this book! Egads!)
So.. I have to ask myself and all of you..
Can you go anywhere and produce or are you stuck relying on those who do?
If you are a producer, won’t the world ultimately take your production and twist it for their own means? When you make enough money won’t someone, sooner or later try to steal everything you’ve worked hard to create?
Does that probability sap your energy? Your drive? Why do we continue trying in the face of such knowledge? Why does ANY producer who creates ANY thing worthwhile keep going even after they are judged and hated, mocked and betrayed? For our love? Love of what?
Is Dagny’s love for the railroad.. mistaken? Should she have gone back?
Would you have?
As another under appreciated white knight once proclaimed..
Yippee ki yay mother......s!!!
Welcome to Friday!! Merry Christmas ppl! It’s a wonderful life! Hahaha.. here we go...
Ch 7 The Moratorium on Brains
Eddie talks to the mystery man and TELLS HIM WHERE DAGNY IS!!!! Rearden orders his lawyer to get him a divorce at any cost. Ragnar meets Rearden on the road and gives him a gold bar signifying much more wealth that Ragnar has been saving for him. Hank refuses to take it at first but then saves Ragnar by lying to the cops.
Several ppl demand things they shouldn’t leading weak-willed whiners to create an extremely unsafe situation and putting a terrifying responsibility on the shoulders of a young boy.
Every man, woman, and child left on the train were vehement adherents to UNthinking. They deserved what they found in the mountain. (SOOO dramatic aren’t I?!?!)
Chapter 8 By Our Love
Dagny is dealing w/ grief, alone, at her cabin when Francisco finds her to confess everything. Breaking news from the radio slices into their convo, informing her of the crash and she goes, rushing down the hillside, despite him begging her not to.
Dagny returns to her office to help the railroad. Jim slinks away, Eddie remains to assist her. Dagny faces the situation like a war torn general leading a broken army, she has no time for emotion. Dagny, yet again, relies on Hank to help her fight the great evil.
My thoughts: SUCH A CLIFFHANGER!!! GAH!!!
Thank goodness I can read more ASAP!
So we have a serious moral quandary, supposedly. Dagny can choose to give up on the thing she loves, abandoning it, because the entire country will just use her to help them while hating her for her accomplishments OR she can listen to Francisco and not go back.
This is fascinating. Thankfully, we don’t live in such a world where almost EVERYONE is unthinking, uncaring, impotent, arrogant, and worthless. Or do we? Hmmm.
So, there are only two types of people. Producers and Consumers. (Thanks MJ for telling me about that in a MUCH nicer way than this book! Egads!)
So.. I have to ask myself and all of you..
Can you go anywhere and produce or are you stuck relying on those who do?
If you are a producer, won’t the world ultimately take your production and twist it for their own means? When you make enough money won’t someone, sooner or later try to steal everything you’ve worked hard to create?
Does that probability sap your energy? Your drive? Why do we continue trying in the face of such knowledge? Why does ANY producer who creates ANY thing worthwhile keep going even after they are judged and hated, mocked and betrayed? For our love? Love of what?
Is Dagny’s love for the railroad.. mistaken? Should she have gone back?
Would you have?
As another under appreciated white knight once proclaimed..
Yippee ki yay mother......s!!!
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