The most villainous character in Atlas
It's easy to identify the greatest hero in Atlas as John Galt. I would be very interested to hear who Gulchers would choose to be the most villainous character in Atlas, and why.
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In the words of Albert Einstein, "He has been given his big brain by mistake. Unprotected spinal marrow was all he needed".
Without such a faceless jellyfish existing in countless numbers, Wesley Mouch would rise no higher than a filing clerk. TT's executives and top workers would walk out, start their own rail company and crash TT's stock price to pennies, then buy out Jim's controlling share and regenerate TT with Dagny as CEO.. Robert Stadler would be back teaching at Patrick Henry University, carefully toeing the line, having given up on any idea of funding scientific research at the point of a gun.
A hero serves a just cause; an anti-hero serves an evil one.
Likewise, a villain serves an evil cause, and an anti-villain serves a just one.
But one of the first things my instructors told me to disabuse myself of, is the classic definition of "hero" as "a character serving a just cause."
He was "villainous" until he came to his senses.
I still take issue with his willingly supporting his brother Philip, and his wife, and mother in law. He was demonstrating a textbook definition of Altruism.
the guy that allowed himself to be shot dead rather than make a decision. Should be the next Joe The Plumber
But you're right; Rearden had to claw his way through all the confusion and pain to find his way. He had incredible strength, and I think Rand showed that well, even in the admiration that the Gulchers had for Rearden.
Rearden wasn't villianous, he was misguided. He is only as villianous as the other industrialist that go on strike once their eyes are opened. Once Rearden was ready to accept the truth he walked away just like the rest.
I was going to say Floyd Ferris because he was also a man of the mind, but he was never really in that group. He was a thug of the muscle because he just wanted to create methods to extort the men of the mind to do what he and the other looters wanted.
I think those who know better, and continue down the road are the worse. That makes them liars and hypocrites.
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