Henry Rearden's Concerto of Deliverance Comes to Life
Posted by mshupe 4 years, 5 months ago to Philosophy
Armed with nothing but meaningless phrases, this boy had been thrown to fight for existence, he had hobbled and groped through a brief, doomed effort, he had screamed indignant, bewildered protest, and had perished in his first attempt to soar on mangled wings.²
How did anti-conceptual slogans become proof of intellect? Why does joining a mob pass for courageous self-expression? When did the threat of violence and mass looting of innocent lives become justice?³
He saw a lout scurrying across a patch of lamplight, swinging a lethal pipe at a wall of glass panes, battering them down with animal relish, dancing like a gorilla to the sound of crashing glass.²
How did anti-conceptual slogans become proof of intellect? Why does joining a mob pass for courageous self-expression? When did the threat of violence and mass looting of innocent lives become justice?³
He saw a lout scurrying across a patch of lamplight, swinging a lethal pipe at a wall of glass panes, battering them down with animal relish, dancing like a gorilla to the sound of crashing glass.²
The yet unanswered question is what must be done to stop "the mindless face of the thug with a club" when the people in government have abnegated their sworn responsibility to protect the lives and property of the producers?
"Then announcing their secession from the country, as if fighting murder with suicide: went on to seize all property within their reach, to declare community bondage of all to all, and to perish within a week. Their meager loot consumed, in the bloody hatred of all for all, in the chaos of no rule save that of the gun, to perish under the lethargic thrust of a few worn soldiers sent out from Washington to bring order to the ruins."
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I just have a really bad feeling that we are going to have a situation like the sabotage of Rearden's steel factory at Mount Rushmore and/or multiple monuments on July 4th. I feel like I ought to be in Frank Adams' (Francisco d'Anconia in disguise) role right now.