You're nuts. She's making a point. If you ever read her essays you would know that. She's part serious, but you have to realize that its fiction (come on! perpetual motion motors! talk about sci-fi). You also need to read The Fountainhead. She has the hero blow up a building. She doesnt really think ppl should blow up buildings, its just a point.
PS Any present tense should prolly be past tense.
>> You're nuts. She's making a point. If you ever read her essays you would know that. She's part serious, but you have to realize that its fiction (come on! perpetual motion motors! talk about sci-fi). You also need to read The Fountainhead. She has the hero blow up a building. She doesnt really think ppl should blow up buildings, its just a point <<
I compared her to uber-Calvinists, not to Al Qaeda. Atlas Shrugged certainly is meant to depict behavior she considers heroic! And her heroine would rather the destruction of all civilization to the present-day Socialism Lite. Frankly, I found her novel to be about the moral equivalent to "The Turner Diaries." In fact, it's quite ironic that her Final Solution [Damned straight that reference is deliberate!] results in a society remarkably similar to Rousseau's ideal village.
But the funny thing is that Dagney Taggart isn't the one who was successfully keeping the railroad running the whole time. Eddie was. While civilization was collapsing and she was off experimenting with her sexuality, Eddie was keeping the trains running. She can't even illustrate her point without using a character who complete undermines it: the success of her Titan rested on a paeon who she seems to deem unfit for survival.
Without the paeons who are less than worthless to John Galt, all Dagney can ever hope to do is pretend she's Gilligan in her little, tiny, inconsequential Rousseau village.
So if her point is to show that Captains of Industry (echo voice) don't need plebes, but plebes are helpless without Captains of Industry, she failed miserably.
Oh, and there's that pesky, inconvenient fact that Einstein, Newton, Mendel, Watson & Crick all fall into her category of worthless plebes.