Atlas Shrugged
(Ayn Rand)
The word is largely inhabited bythose who live second hand lives. Those who themselves are not the producersbut subsist on the production of others. There is no problem with that but whenthey start demanding that they be served by the producers, and start treatingthe men with ability with disdain, the trouble begins. What can be tolerated istheir subsistence on the producers, what, however, is beyond toleration istheir unreasonable indignation. The fact that they hate the able simply becausethey are able is plainly abominable. That is what Ayn Rand?s magnum opus --Atlas Shrugged -- objects to and stands staunchly against. Theman who understands this best is John Galt, who remains an unknown face in thecrowd despite the fact that he is talked about by everyone as an inexplicablephenomenon (Who is John Galt?). He remains invisible and does his work quietly.And his work is to bring the world of the moochers down brick by brick. He isthe one who has promised to stop the motor of the world and he does succeed inbrining the world to a halt. He takes every man who is able and loves his workone after another. Theend result is that all those who made the world go around disappear. The world,naturally, fails to turn another round. It stops dead. And the world realizesthe worth of those who make it go round. The point is thus made.
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