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Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 (view source)
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, 02:05, November 26, 2011→Motivations of the characters
But what game is d'Anconia playing? Why does he deliberately make a thoroughly bad business mistake, just to deliver a sucker punch to politically minded men like Jim Taggart?
But what game is d'Anconia playing? Why does he deliberately make a thoroughly bad business mistake, just to deliver a sucker punch to politically minded men like Jim Taggart?
John Galt's motives remain the deepest mystery of all. But by film's end, we know his purpose: the complete and utter destruction of American society, or rather the quasi-socialistic state that America has now become, and the supplanting of it with a new civic, economic, and social order. Its name is [[Atlantis (Atlas Shrugged)|Atlantis]], a name that translates as "that which belongs to Atlas."
John Galt's motives remain the deepest mystery of all. But by film's end, we know his purpose: the complete and utter destruction of American society, or rather the quasi-socialistic state that America has now become, and the supplanting of it with a new civic, economic, and social order. Its name is [[Atlantis (Atlas Shrugged)|Atlantis]], a name that translates as "that which belongs to Atlas." His method: to encourage the most productive people in America to go on strike, and refuse to support a society that taxes them to death.
One other character gets no screen time, but bears frequent mention in newscasts and newspapers: [[Ragnar Danneskjøld]], a [[buccaneer]] famous for hijacking "government relief" cargoes that are the new [[foreign aid]] in this era. But is Danneskjøld a buccaneer—or a [[privateer]]?
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