Talking about people who don't care. In Texas if a railroad crossing has only a track for one train, they don't have to put up lights so you can see it at midnight when a black train with no graffiti on it crosses. My children died (son and wife) because of this. Putting those lights up where they belonged cost the railroad dearly as compensation to my four orphaned grandchldren.

He did a good job reading with his style expression, it brought the story to life. I remember reading that scene in AS and my heart sank. Not because of any intense love for the people in the book, but because I saw the patterns in our society that similarly led to that fictional disaster. Things falling apart, people not caring, delegating their work to those who can't do it or don't care...

What really freaked me out was a few years after I read AS, they tore up one of the railroad tracks where I live. There were two parallel lines, I guess they only used one line, which still runs today, and so they thought they could salvage the steel and sell it to Japan. It got me spooked for awhile. I'm all better now.

Speaking of which, we need to bring back rail. 110 cars stacked two high, pulled by two diesel engines is way more efficient than 220 individual tractor trailers driving cross country. Truckers would run North South routes for regional distribution, but the East West national distribution would be by rail. It could be balanced so that truckers would not lose their jobs, and have shorter working hours, having a better lifestyle, and less accidents on the road.

When I am president, after I fortify the Southern border with 12,000 Dillon M134A miniguns mounted on towers every 1/4 mile, I will bring back rail. And the chain guns firing at will, will create a biological human wall the stench of which from cadaverine and putrescine will deter anything with a nose from approaching the Southern Border. The stench of death is all that is needed for immigration reform.

The genius of Rands Atlas Shrugged, in part was the way she could predict the consequences of the collectivist mush. This particular segment
Showed how potentially in real life ignoring reason and logic can be catastrophic , with the twist of projection we see so much of today.
The board reminds me of the January 6 deselect committee.

The USA is headed for a giant Taggart Tunnel disaster when it comes to the wanton printing of money, resulting in the destruction of the dollar. It will come quickly at some point, when the various ways of kicking the problems down the road come to an end.

Definitely one of my favorite parts of "Atlas"!

So many useless eaters, of the liberal "persuasion" gone, poof, just like that. 😄😄👍👍👍

Loved it....many parallels to the present day, laughing.

Thanks for that. Actually, from listening for an hour, I do not like the voice, it is rough and guttural. The characters portrayed are rough and crude but only when threatening down, within their set they would be smug and superior and pretend to be cultured. I will listen again to my Scott Brick rendering. I've not played it for years.
I listen to audio books a lot, while driving. (How long can that last?). Of all, the most compelling was Orwell's 1984, cannot remember the narrator, Stephen Ruszeki? a Polish name maybe, compelling, in fact chilling.
Example- Smith is reading a book to himself, it is a child's school book, you hear the narrator, and Smith, and a female teacher all at the same time in one voice- "London was not always the beautiful city we know today.. " Absolute irony combined with disgust.

As usual, skipping ahead doesn't work on rumble.