This section of Atlas Shrugged flipped my perception on the book entirely. Before I thought it was a confusing long
piece, that flip-flopped between the different sides of the story. After reading these chapters, I realize it is
the tale of a disadvantaged woman working together with other powerhouse
companies in order to fight controlling Unions and make personal
accomplishments that better the world.
By far my favorite character right now is
Dagny Taggart, what she represents is strongly similar to my views on
industry. She believes that Unions are
corrupt and are not in fact helping anyone at all, she sees the newly created
union as a way to shut down a powerhouse that is helping the industry. Instead of seeing how shutting down Dan would
put the oil company dangerously close to failing. Nothing good can come from the union other
than lobbyists being able to force their agenda upon the companies, nonetheless
the motion gets passed and Dan has to honor his word.
While before I had viewed both Dagny and
Rearden as work centered people who do not really care about anything else in
the world. I now realize that’s just what they were born to do, they were born
to change the world and that is what they intend to do. If only Rearden was not married, when they
both were talking about how much could be changed with Rearden Metal I realized
that they would be a perfect match for each other. But at least for no that will not be, and I will
have to keep reading to see how their relationship progresses.
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