Our Strive Towards Perfectionism

    Rand this week consistently critiqued the industrialized world and the values that it is associated with. When reading in between the lines her audience perceives a world that is reaching towards perfectionism but can never achieve it. Yet, there is a paradox that is to perpetually strive for perfection suggests that one may not be at peace which hinders their ability to progress. When one attempts to reach perfection they are compensating for an inadequacy that they believe to be true about themselves. When forcefully making themselves thrust forward, Dagny and her society impinge on the very progress that they seek.  The industrialized culture is constantly driven toward excellence as the world is “supposed to do the best we can” at everything and anything. However, if the world world is consistently valuing performance more than tranquility or the ability to be present, society is slaughtering the idea of balance and the core value of what it means to be human.
    It is ironic that when one is truly present they may grow further and actually come closer to the intangible concept of perfectionism. The misery that has taken control of Dagny’s society cannot be cured as culture has taken the wrong path towards exterior perfectionism and cannot reroute their GPS’s to internal perfectionism.
    Rand further develops her hopeless, gloomy society and suggests that their fait has been set and they will no longer progress and therefore will never be able to come close to perfectionism. All that will be left will be a life of pain, doubt, and a yearning for something that people can never and will never achieve.