From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 00:13:12 MDT
At 08:50 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>John Galt would have supported a privateer-run sabotage of the Iraqi
>oil industry (like the sabotage of the copper industry in the book).
Incidentally, this is one of the aspects I especially disliked about Rand's
two late novels. (There were many aspects I liked a great deal, when I read
them nearly 40 years ago.) Roark blows up a building constructed with funds
contributed by tax payers, and I don't especially care whether he did it
out of pique or principle. Righteous dudes `sabotage the copper industry'
in ATLAS SHRUGGED. I know this is a traditional tool of revolt among
anarchists, but I'd much prefer that the bad ways be defeated by a
surprising lateral upsurge of good ways. If I had a magic Galt cold fusion
motor (or whatever it was), I wouldn't hide it away in case Sneaky Weems
stole or banned it--I'd put the plans on the internet, and wait for the
world to improve as everyone became effectively wealthier.
Damien Broderick
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