This week’s
reading was by far the most negative and grueling to date. If something was not
going wrong for anyone who Rand labels as good in this novel before, at this
point it has all gone to complete shit. Even for Jim Taggart, the entire rail
has begun to crumble including the major Comet incident. And as the book has
progressed it has become more prominent that the negative force that is causing
all of the good to fall is these looters.
The way that these looters are described to
me is very interesting. They are referred to as this almost abstract idea,
where only one or two are seen but they just seem to be a growing abscess on
society. The way Rand puts it these people are the worst of the worst. Yet she
very rarely takes the point of view of the average looter. Sure she does look
at the all powerful, and a few to represent them all here and there but she is
missing a vital detail. She is describing these people all as lazy,
self-absorbed people but if fact they are not. These are people that have been
given unnecessary freedoms and taken advantage of them.
This point
brings me back to my main problem with the novel, at this point my famous comparison
error from Rand. This unreal socialistic ideal described does not and has never
existed. These looters are people to and they deserve the equal shot. But Rand doesn’t
believe in equality based on my deduction at this point. But that is a whole
other topic…
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