Daylight AtheismOriginally posted on Atlas Shrugged: Motive Power.
Dagny Taggart: And so, I have decided that I must go.
Francisco D’Anconia: Oh Dagny! But if you go you will still come back one day because despite my favorite thing about you being your rough, individualistic spirit I also understand that we are all helplessly bound by predeterminism!
Dagny Taggart: I’m sorry Francisco, but I have to return to the great world beyond. For there is a giant corporation out there that I cannot bear to abandon in its time of need.
Francisco D’Anconia: You fool, with your sentimentality for large, faceless profit driven constructs!
John Galt: And I too must be leaving.
Midas Mulligan: No! John! How can we ever live without you!? How shall we have any original thoughts without you telling us what to do and guiding us through our rugged individuality?
John Galt: Now you stop that right now. If I want to kill myself that’s my own business.
Midas Mulligan: Ah, you’re right, of course. I almost actually did something for myself for once, it’s a good thing you were here to remind me of what my purely internal motivations were, since they’re not surely all born from my cultish slavery to your ideals.
Cobra Commander: Not that I’m complaining here, but why are you leaving?
John Galt: Because even though Dagny here was never even invited to join us, and only stumbled on our community by luck, and I never bothered to take the time to go meet with her to explain my ideals or my conception for either our little hideaway or my perfect society, and even though I am still coy about the true nature of things even with her here right now serving as a member in our society, I am still prepared to abandon my work and my people to go hide around her and watch her creepily and stalker like from a distance to ensure that I am readily available to swoop in and save her when she is at her lowest moment. Which, I should note, is something I am one hundred percent sure will happen.
Dagny Taggart: Well that all sounds very romantic.
Cobra Commander: Well fine, you two go off and play your little love triangle between the pair of you and your corporation. Will give me some time to finalize my control over this place before he arrives…
John Galt: Ah, speaking of though, not one of you need worry for in my absence I have found a man capable of taking my place. A super genius since birth, created to be a perfect physical specimen, I have found this fellow to be quite in agreement with our ideals!
Cobra Commander: Oh no…
John Galt: While he’s a bit more aggressive about implementation of our plans like my good friend Ragnar, I see that only as a sign of the zeal this charming hero has for putting the greatest of humanity in their rightful place. So may I introduce to you my good friend, and the newest member of our valley. Serpentor!
Serpentor: ALL WILL BOW DOWN BEFORE THE MIGHT OF OUR VAST INTELLECT! THIS I COMMAND!
Midas Mulligan: My word! He’s saying out loud what we’re all thinking!
Cobra Commander: Oh no no no…
Serpentor: THE WEAK MEN OF THE WORLD BEYOND THIS VALLEY BELIEVE THAT THEY DESERVE SOMETHING FOR MERELY EXISTING, BUT IT SHALL BE THEIR BETTERS WHO REAP THE REWARD OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET, AS WE SHALL SEE THEIR CITIES LAID TO RUIN AND WASTE WHILE WE FORGE AHEAD TO CREATE A NEW RULE OF LAW, WHERE CHILDISH CONCEPTS LIKE MORALITY ARE TORN ASUNDER BY THE STEADY MARCH OF PROGRESS!
Francisco D’Anconia: Well he certainly has an interesting fashion sense, but I must say my metal faced friend is rather right on the money when it comes to how we should be handling those upstart villainous looters.
Dagny Taggart: Well everything looks like it’ll be in good hands with you gone, I suppose we shall be on our way then hm?
John Galt: Yes it’s finally good to have met someone with the same strong moral fiber as the rest of us. I think I’ll go get the plane ready, Dagny if you could please put a blindfold on.
Dagny Taggart: Oh I still have the one Francisco gave me I’ll be right along.
Cobra Commander: Please! Take me with you!
Serpentor: COBRA COMMANDER! YOU SNIVELING WORM! DESTRO HAS TOLD ME OF YOUR INABILITY TO PROPERLY MAKE USE OF THIS WONDERFUL VALLEY WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED, WASTING YOUR TIME ON FOOLISH REVENGE AND PETTY BICKERING!
Cobra Commander: M-my ever gracious and magnanimous lord Serpentor! I… I can explain! These people were simply so infuriating that I… I had to…
Destro: How dare you talk back to your emperor!
Serpentor: SILENCE! I DO NOT NEED YOU TO DEFEND ME DESTRO. I SHALL DEAL WITH INSUBORDINATION MYSELF, AS I SHALL DEAL WITH ALL OF YOUR GRIEVANCES BY THE MIGHT OF MY OWN UNSTOPPABLE POWER!
Ragnar Danneskjold: Oh no grievances here, if John vouches for you I’m sure everyone will be happy having you on board. I mean look at me, despite the constant protestations to everyone about not desiring any application of force, by virtue of some simple verbal gymnastics they are quite happy to invite an avowed pirate into their midst! I hardly think you’ll be causing much of a stir.
Destro: It is as I told you oh great Serpentor, these fools have themselves so convinced of their own perfection that the slightest stroking of their egos will have them eating out of your hand!
Serpentor: THERE WILL BE TIME FOR MANIPULATION LATER, FOR NOW I WILL TEACH THAT PITIFUL IGNORAMUS COBRA COMMANDER THE LESSON HE SO RIGHTLY DESERVES!
Destro: But emperor! Cobra Commander, he is already fled!
Serpentor: SNIVELING COWARD! BUT NO MATTER, WITH THE MIGHT OF THE INFINITE ENGINE AND THE RAY SHIELD WITHIN MY GRASP, ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER MARVELS YOU HAVE ACQUIRED FOR ME DESTRO, I SHALL CONQUER THIS VALLEY, AND AFTER THA T, THE WORLD! FOR I AM SERPENTOR, AND THIS… I COMMAND!
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