Rearden, much guiltier than they tell you, but not in the way they preach. The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.
If you were punished for it, what was the nature of those who punished you? Yours was the code of life. What, then, is theirs? Who is John Galt? There are many legends — which, if any, is true? Is he the man who discovered the fountain of youth? The man who found the lost city of Atlantis? A modern Prometheus? Does he even exist? And why, if no one knows the answer, does the entire world know his name? As she fights to save her railroad, Dagny struggles to understand why incompetence, which she believes to be powerless, seems to be stopping her at every turn and winning every battle.
And to answer that question, she must grapple with another one: Why does the man she loves say that she is responsible for the victories of her enemies? His greatest achievement, a new alloy he calls Rearden Metal, has the potential to revolutionize the economy. But Rearden soon finds his metal under attack from the government, the media and so-called scientific experts. Rearden loves his work, but he does not regard it as a moral achievement and is unconcerned with defending it and himself from intellectual attack.
But as Rearden begins to understand the importance of championing his work, he starts to see a connection to why he is unhappy at home, where he is surrounded by a family who mocks and scorns him, caught in a loveless marriage, and plagued by a sense of guilt over his sexual desire, which he regards as a low, animalistic urge.
But what will happen as other players make their own backroom deals, threatening the very existence of Taggart Transcontinental?
And what does his response reveal about his soul? Unlike the heroes of the novel, he is not a creative giant, but he is unfailingly conscientious and deeply devoted to Taggart Transcontinental. Through Eddie we see that those of greater productive ability do not exploit those with less ability, but benefit them by giving them the capacity to be even more productive.
Eddie also reveals the way in which the best of the men of average intelligence require the creation of a rational society: whereas the heroes can create such a society, Eddie may very well perish without them. For Rand reason is needed not just by a theoretical scientist in his lab, but by all of us at all times. They choose their goals and values by a process of thought, never putting their desires above the facts.
As a result, they are in constant conflict with reality and achieve nothing. Atlas Shrugged challenges many conventional notions about good and evil: that sex is a low, animal desire; that money is the root of evil; that man is sinful by nature. One of the most prominent is the notion that selfishness is evil and self-sacrifice is good. The heroes of Atlas Shrugged are condemned for their selfishness, while the villains tout their selflessness and the moral duty to sacrifice.
Rand, a former Hollywood screenwriter herself, began writing her own screenplay, but died in with only one-third of it finished. She left her estate, including the film rights to Atlas , to her student Leonard Peikoff , who sold an option to Michael Jaffe and Ed Snider. Peikoff would not approve the script they wrote, and the deal fell through. Hart [72] and re-written by Randall Wallace , [73] but was never produced. Stephen Polk was set to direct. Filming was completed on July 20, , [76] and the movie was released on April 15, However, on February 2, , Kaslow and Aglialoro announced Atlas Shrugged: Part II was fully funded and that principal photography was tentatively scheduled to commence in early April Template:Ayn Rand.
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Retrieved November 19, The Treasury folks insisted that this shakedown, too, was all in "the public interest. Ultimately, "Atlas Shrugged" is a celebration of the entrepreneur, the risk taker and the cultivator of wealth through human intellect.
Critics dismissed the novel as simple-minded, and even some of Rand's political admirers complained that she lacked compassion. Yet one pertinent warning resounds throughout the book: When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in society, they start to disappear -- leaving everyone the poorer. One memorable moment in "Atlas" occurs near the very end, when the economy has been rendered comatose by all the great economic minds in Washington. Finally, and out of desperation, the politicians come to the heroic businessman John Galt who has resisted their assault on capitalism and beg him to help them get the economy back on track.
The discussion sounds much like what would happen today:. Thompson, leaping to his feet. How would we pay government employees? Abolishing the income tax. Now that really would be a genuine economic stimulus. But Mr. Obama and the Democrats in Washington want to do the opposite: to raise the income tax "for purposes of fairness" as Barack Obama puts it.
David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message.
Kelley jokes. Moore is senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal editorial page.
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