My final reading showed him representing the fate of mankind who beat their heads against a wall saying 'we tried so hard. Then dying.' It's like the old story of the floods and the guy on his roof. turned down a ride in a row boat, a power boat and a helicopter. each time saying the Lord will provide. As he drowned he sez presumable in prayer 'Why hast thou foresaken me?" The Lord answers, "What do you mean i sent two boats and a helicopter?"

In the desert and they found out from a passing wagon train there were no bridges across the Mississippi. Tried to start the train but had he done so had no where to go. The rabbit was a symbol of what he saw himself become. Although it could of been worse. He could have become a moocher.

He chose not to go. Tried to restart the train ' in the name of the best of us' and went crazy presumably having to finally admit defeat. One track mind. There are times you must abandon the effort in pursue of some thing better not the least of which is yourself.

heh. I don't regard her as much of an alpha female.
Lillian was more like an alpha female.
Dagny was more like an alpha male.


But, she wasn't only seduced by the alpha male. Just by whatever male happened to be handy who SEEMED most alpha at the time. Whenever a more alpha came along, eh, screw you, I never loved you, I just enjoyed you til something better came along.

We have a word for people, especially women, who sell themselves to the highest bidder, regardless of the coin offered.

I tried finding her version on youtube but couldn't. I got another, ghastly rendition from someone else.

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/ki...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDc1RHLp...

"For we hold that in all disaster
Of shipwreck, storm, or sword,
A Man must stand by his Master
When once he has pledged his word."

I don't expect you to understand this. The reward is self-respect.

He was capable of loving someone or something more than himself. The ultimate sin, in the Objectivist religion (goodlife sect).

Hm...

In order to separate mere Objectivists from fanatical Objectivists, I'm going to borrow a term from Fred Saberhagen.

The fanatical Objectivists, such as yourself, I will in future refer to as "goodlife". (conservatives will remain "badlife" for clarity).

"But I have touched a few rare human minds, the jewels of life, who rise to meet the greatest challenges by becoming supremely men. "
- 3rd Historian... "Stone Place"

"I touched a mind whose soul was dead . . . "
3rd Historian - "Patron of the Arts"

"Men always project their beliefs and their emotions into their vision of the world. Machines can be made to see in a wider spectrum, to detect every wavelength precisely as it is, undistorted by love or hate or awe.

But still men's eyes see more than lenses do. "
-3rd Historian "The Face of the Deep"

"But I have touched a few rare human minds, the jewels of life, who rise to meet the greatest challenges by becoming supremely men. "
-3rd Historian "Stone Place"

I reasoned this out a long time ago, and forgot until now that I done so. It is reason that makes us able to survive; it is emotion that gives us reason to survive. The most powerful computer in the world, networked to a billion like itself, will have no reason to exist for itself, no, to use Ayn Rand's final word from "Anthem"... no EGO. Only our primitive, emotion-driven hindbrain gives us that. Without emotion to drive our lives, we're just lumps of goo, sitting around waiting to die.
When you read or watch about the great men and women of history... the word "driven" repeatedly shows up. "Driven" is not a rational, reasoned response to the world; it is an emotional one. Without that *emotional* drive, all the reason in the world won't create an iPhone.
Dagny Taggart suffered from the same loyalty as Eddie. She just wasn't quite as human as he. As evidenced by her eternal quest for the most alpha male.

Go worship at the altar of the machines, goodlife.


(I wonder how many Objectivists suffer from Asperger's?)