I've said in the past (actually, it was after watching Samantha Mathison's portrayal of Dagny's suffering at the hands of her stalker) that I'd have put a bullet in Galt at the first opportunity.

The scenes shown in this video reinforce that feeling. I dislike him intensely.

The conversational tone in the meeting scene... I've heard it before. Back in the 70s, when the cults were everywhere.

One thing that really annoyed me was when Galt threatened Dagny, coerced a promise out of her. So much for the initiation of force. "Either promise you won't try to come back uninvited, or we'll kill you." Or keep her prisoner, I suppose. I'd come back... at the head of a flight of bombers.

(oh, but the gulchers need not worry; we're all totally incompetent without their godly influence. I'm sure not a single bomb would land anywhere near the gulch).

But, something Dipsh... I mean David Kelly said made me laugh.

"(objectivism) means accepting facts as facts, whether you like them or not".

I LAUGH in your face, David Kelly. C'mere... no, wait a minute so I can eat some garlic first.... then I'll laugh in your face.

All the great things all the great men in history did... they did in the TEETH of "accepting facts as facts".

Thomas Edison found 10,000 ways how not to make a lightbulb. How'd that happen? Because he didn't accept facts as facts; he had FAITH that a way DID exist to make a lightbulb.
His emotion overrode his reason.

Reason tells us, "just do what you can do". Reason tells us, "some things are impossible". But the great things in history were not done by people who accepted limits.

There's a very inspiring song from "Wicked", where Elphaba sings, "I'm through accepting limits because someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change... *but til I try I'll never know*."

I know you rational godlings hate the very idea... but that's an assertion of... FAITH.

However David Kelly wants to put it, intellect is *dead* without emotion. it's a hard drive full of data, but no program to make something of it. The hard drive is full of ones and zeros... but imagination, the vision of what isn't but might be, turns those ones and zeros into an experience like no one has experienced before.

Reason and emotion are not only compatible, they are inseparable in human beings. But, these people don't want to be human beings. They want to be IBM machines.

Btw, please tell the producers and directors and actors and everybody else associated with this fucking moving to spend some time on a construction site.

Dagny makes an ass of herself when she claims, "I can build it in 3 months". Oh, she sounds very manly and cool, and watching all the boys look around confused (in spite of their own engineering experience) as she explains how she can build a railroad for them is very, very PC... But, she has no clue what she's going to use for MANPOWER. She has no clue where she's going to get the materials, such as... Rearden metal.
Only an inexperienced, egotistical ass would make such a proclamation on the basis of a few minutes of study. I know. I've done the same thing when I was young. But I'm no intellectual gulch-godling.

Give her a thousand men, maybe she could do it in 3 months. Give her three men, she probably couldn't do it in 3 years.

It's what I've been trying to get across to you people, but you've emotionally refused to believe what you don't want to believe. In order to accomplish these great things, you DO need manpower. They're going to need food and shelter, and someplace to be when they're not working. And, as their primary value lies in their back, they're not going to be intellectually-oriented philosophers. They're going to pollute your gulch with looters and moochers.

Think I'm pulling this out of my arse? Research a little history on the 'wild west'; the boom towns, the mining towns and cowtowns and oil towns. Same thing happened with them, that's why Tombstone, for example, eventually needed Wild Burp and his brothers.