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But he is also, quite clearly, an [[Literary type#Allegorical types|allegory]] of any businessman who, having decided to "go along to get along," continues to support his own would-be destroyers in the vain hope that the trouble will stop. The most important thing that Henry Rearden realizes, and the thing that ''all'' businessman might soon have to realize, is that as long as he is able and willing to "do something," the trouble will never stop—and on the day that he decides ''not'' to "do something" any longer, the trouble will stop because the system that causes that trouble must inevitably collapse under the weight of its own illogical laws.
But he is also, quite clearly, an [[Literary type#Allegorical types|allegory]] of any businessman who, having decided to "go along to get along," continues to support his own would-be destroyers in the vain hope that the trouble will stop. The most important thing that Henry Rearden realizes, and the thing that ''all'' businessman might soon have to realize, is that as long as he is able and willing to "do something," the trouble will never stop—and on the day that he decides ''not'' to "do something" any longer, the trouble will stop because the system that causes that trouble must inevitably collapse under the weight of its own illogical laws.
== Real-life mention ==
On June 18, 2009, Mr. [[Glenn Beck]] mentioned the name of Rearden Steel in a segment describing the many businesses that have "gone along to get along" with the policies of the [[Obama Administration]], policies that Mr. Beck considers disastrous. Though Mr. Beck failed to elucidate the reference fully, he can only have been talking about the character named Henry Rearden and the business that bears his name. Mr. Beck wants to see a real-life businessman stand up to the pressure from the current government in Washington, just as Henry Rearden does in the novel.
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