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FReeper Book Club

Atlas Shrugged

Part III: A is A

Chapter VI: The Concerto of Deliverance

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Prior threads:
FReeper Book Club: Introduction to Atlas Shrugged
Part I, Chapter I: The Theme
Part I, Chapter II: The Chain
Part I, Chapter III: The Top and the Bottom
Part I, Chapter IV: The Immovable Movers
Part I, Chapter V: The Climax of the d’Anconias
Part I, Chapter VI: The Non-Commercial
Part I, Chapter VII: The Exploiters and the Exploited
Part I, Chapter VIII: The John Galt Line
Part I, Chapter IX: The Sacred and the Profane
Part I, Chapter X: Wyatt’s Torch
Part II, Chapter I: The Man Who Belonged on Earth
Part II, Chapter II: The Aristocracy of Pull
Part II, Chapter III: White Blackmail
Part II, Chapter IV: The Sanction of the Victim
Part II, Chapter V: Account Overdrawn
Part II, Chapter VI: Miracle Metal
Part II, Chapter VII: The Moratorium on Brains
Part II, Chapter VIII: By Our Love
Part II, Chapter IX: The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt
Part II, Chapter X: The Sign of the Dollar
Part III, Chapter I: Atlantis
Part III, Chapter II: The Utopia of Greed
Part III, Chapter III: Anti-Greed
Part III, Chapter IV: Anti-Life
Part III, Chapter V: Their Brothers’ Keepers

[GOP Poet]

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[Still Thinking]

Eugene Lawson says that it’s Hank’s duty to comply and suffer because Boyle is simply too big to fail.

TBTF. It's the new "But it's for the chilllllllrun [whine]"

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[definitelynotaliberal]

Thank you for telling us about the Kohler plant. I’m going to have to look into it.

It’s probably really banal for me to say this, and I don’t know recent American history as well as I should, but the firing of Gerald Walpin seemed violent to me. Also, coercing the GM CEO to step down was pure Chicago thuggery, such as I know it.

[shove_it]

“corruption of the blood”

Sarah Palin and her family are certainly current victims of this.

[ozark hilljilly]

“...he is the guiltiest man in the room because he had accepted the reality that these men had created.”

Wow! That can be said of a lot of us today.
Everyone is just accepting the Obama reality, but there are some signs of intelligence stirring. Every chapter is becoming more and more non-fiction! Very scary!

Thanks for the tips! I did some of those intuitively when I tackled that upcoming chapter a few months ago. I may go back and review...got a whole week! : )

[stylin_geek]

A couple of years ago I had a conversation about Unions with someone who is a very smart engineer and conservative.

Yet, even he had bought into the canard that Unions were necessary, at one time, due to employer malfeasance.

I pointed out the labor problems were exacerbated because government was openly in bed with business. That a lot of the labor violence came about, because government allowed businesses to hire strike breakers, who were nothing more than thugs.

[whodathunkit]

Hank tells them he could have forgiven them had they urged him to desert.

This is a concrete action by Rearden that demonstrates Rands 'check your premises' advice. I am aware there are many other such instances in the book but this one stands out in my opinion. Perhaps because it took him such a long time to come to the realization of his true situation.

[whodathunkit]

...known by the legal term “corruption of the blood”, which is explicitly banned by the Constitution ...have we seen this in America in the past? Are we seeing hints of it today, and if so, where?

Ruby Ridge, Waco, MOVE in Philadelphia, and recent headlines read - 'More than 400 children have been rescued from a polygamist sect on a remote Texas ranch'.

While not necessarily complicit, the willingness of some law enforcement to endanger entire families in order to go after criminals is obvious. No knock warrants undeniably endanger immediate family members.

[TASMANIANRED]

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[r-q-tek86]

Part III, Chapter VII: “This is John Galt Speaking”