In this week’s
reading we were able to finish the first part of this lengthy novel. The end of
this part shows a clear distinction to all that has happened up until this
point. There is this surging force, the one that Dagny will fight, even though
she is unaware of the Origin. One question that this brought up for me is “Who
is John Galt?”
This question
may still be unanswerable, beyond the obvious of what we have previously
learned from earlier readings, but this force is obviously labeled as the
antagonist by Rand. This force involves a complete surge towards socialism.
Whether it is issues between the states or companies, many laws are enacted
that make it harder for those Rand labels as the protagonists to not only
flourish but survive. The stance that the author takes is so blatantly obvious
and one sided it is disgusting.
While I have
been strong in standing for what I believe Rand does make somewhat of a
convincing argument. The way that she shows these different acts of socialistic
origin looks very horrible. But this is her world, her rules, and pure
socialism. She is trying to make me take her side but I am able to identify
specifically her error at this point. There is this obviously conflict between
socialism and capitalism that is made time and again by the author. The problem
here is that she is comparing American Capitalism to Pure Socialism; these are
not opposites, in fact American Capitalism involves socialism in some ways,
with built in regulatory agencies that are effective even with the context of
the novel. Her argument would be invalid if she compared the purities of both
of these economic philosophies. Pure Capitalism would be much worse than Pure
Socialism. Pure Capitalism would allow underage children to drink and do
whatever drugs they like. Pure Capitalism leads to an economy where people are
only set on the now and the near future and never look down the road for the
betterment of humanity, only the betterment of themselves. Pure Capitalism is
chaos.
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