So
far I find the second part of Atlas
Shrugged interesting, but I feel that Rand’s constant pushing of her
philosophy is getting annoying. Page after page she keeps repeating the same
concepts up to this point in the book.
I found the conversation between
Stadler and Ferris quite interesting. While for the most part I disagree with
the ideas in Stadler’s book, he brings up some interesting points. For example,
he wrote that many the theories and inventions of great scientists of the past
have been disproven, so even if we think we may know something, we may really
know nothing. I thought this was actually a good point. I also thought it quite
amusing that Ferris wrote the book for the public and admits that most of it is
nonsense. This made me think deeper about Ferris as a character. He is not
simply a socialist fanboy but is just trying to excel in the current state of
the world. He sees the way the world is going and realizes which side he needs
to take. He is the type of person Mayor Bascom described as willing to do
anything to survive and leaving morals behind.
I’m also beginning to see the
parallelism between this story and George Orwell’s 1984, not a direct correlation yet, but the world in Atlas Shrugged seems to be turning into
the totalitarian one in 1984. There
is a rapid change in this world. The government is given immense powers and
they are taking away basic economic freedoms from people like Hank and letting
those with connections do as they please.
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