There's a moment in AS when the people running Dagny's company, the people who have been in a place of power to make decisions, choose to do something that causes the deaths of about 300 people and the destruction of a major and necessary feature of the infrastructure of the railroad. You can see it coming from the minute that section of the book starts. It is so preventable that a three-year old child with only a rudimentary understanding of how the world functions could have stopped it, would have told the folks running the show that they were going about the situation in such a way that they were bringing disaster down on themselves as fast as they could. Dagny isn't able to stop it from happening, and it's one of the last great eye-opening things that happens for her as she watches the seemingly deliberate glee with which some people seem to race head-first into embracing things that are the opposite of life, the opposite of creation and preservation, the absolute glee with which they throw themselves into the grinding teeth of the destroyer.
Excuse my ramblings. I guess I've just had AS on the mind today.
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