For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. Robert Jastrow
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The story ends like a bad dream. This is the last and most famous of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged quotes, and it’s worth studying, because it shows the absolute reality of the world and the ideology that Ayn Rand expressed in her novels. The world is full of problems and pain and misery, but we can solve them, if we want to. We don’t have to accept what we’ve been given; we don’t have to accept the status quo; we don’t have to accept the reality of our own lives. We can overcome it all.

We can make things better. And we can do it by not accepting what we’re taught all around us — by not accepting the idea that we live in a fallen world of scarcity and evil and that there is no inherent reason for these things to exist. By not accepting that our lives are shaped by nothing but chance and that nothing can be done about any of it.

Source: The Enchanted Loom

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