Atlas Shrugged: Natural Capital<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Why didn\u2019t you want to ride over in the car with us?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You see that would involve spending more time with you and Dagny, so I believe you\u2019ve answered your own question.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> I don\u2019t even know how you found parts out here to modify that tractor into a giant snake head that belches fire.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You have your talents, and I have mine. Anyway, who was that woman we passed on the way here?
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Oh she\u2019s some crazy person who thinks she\u2019s written this whole world we live in, we let her live here kind of as a joke.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Wait she thinks she\u2019s the author of the universe? Because, and I hate to admit I was observant enough to notice this, I\u2019m pretty sure she was checking you out.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Yes but I\u2019m obviously way out of her league.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Because she\u2019s insane?
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> No, because she\u2019s just generally pathetic. I mean she\u2019s a writer! A criminally under-appreciated writer whose keen insight into the human mind is wholly misunderstood by a world that can\u2019t accept her genius truths about the human condition, but a writer none the less.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> With how hard you\u2019re shilling her I\u2019d half expect she did write you into existence, especially with how poorly conceived and slapdash this world is in general. But I\u2019d figure any god that created a world as hollow and devoid of logic or reason as this one, clearly crafted with very non meticulous hands for the sole purpose of preaching an under-cooked and bizarrely nonsensical ethos would at least be someone so self centered they\u2019d not write themselves in as someone to be pitied.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Of course! I mean a person like that would have to have unspeakably gargantuan martyr issues coupled with a massive inferiority superiority complex. Why considering such a creator would be almost completely counter to the ethics espoused in the eat the poor and weak morality we advocate it\u2019d cause someone to completely question her ability to lecture on behalf of such a system. Thankfully for us she\u2019s just some crazy lady!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well it\u2019s not like your idiotic worldview needs any more holes in it anyway. And wait, was she fishing?
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> For the entire community, yes.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> But she doesn\u2019t have any vehicle.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> You don\u2019t need a car to fish! She\u2019s got a battery of fishing rods.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yeah but to transport fish so that they remain fresh you keep them in water or on ice. Also \u2018battery\u2019 is an odd choice of words there, usually you use \u2018battery\u2019 to describe stuff that\u2019s hooked up together.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Oh I know, just felt like using it for some reason. But so what? She can just carry them around.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> De pending on what she\u2019s fishing for those fish could weigh like\u2026 one to ten pounds each, and be quite cumbersome.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Well maybe she just doesn\u2019t catch that many fish in a day.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well see that\u2019s a problem. Either she catches few fish, and then doesn\u2019t really supply enough for the community. Or she catches a lot of fish, but doesn\u2019t seem to have any way to get them to the market.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Well maybe she borrows the tractor.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Not anymore she doesn\u2019t! Also what the heck is there a guy out there cutting down trees by himself?
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Yeah, so? Self sufficient Ted Nielsen, our lumberjack!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> How in the\u2026 Okay forget the fish thing, I mean\u2026 that seems like it\u2019s problematic but on the boundary of the believable but this is just insane!
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Why cutting down a tree is the easiest thing in the world! Just swing an axe and down it goes!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> How have you idiots not all killed yourselves yet? Logging requires\u2026 well a sharp division of labor. You\u2019re capitalists you should know this!
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Nah, old Ted Nielsen is strong as twenty men, he can handle it himself.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> It\u2019s not a question of strength! How the heck is Ted getting that tree out of the forest!?
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Well we used to have a super powerful tractor\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> This tractor, even with my improvements, isn\u2019t getting that tree out of the forest. It\u2019s in the middle of a heavily wooded area!
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Right, you find trees in the forest.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Lumber crews find trees in the forest, CREWS. They usually set up full logging camps to clear out, with safety lookouts and men who climb trees to cut off their tops so that they can use rigging to ensure that newly culled trees fall in the right direction! And then they load up like dozens of logs into giant wheeled wagons to pull them out on cleared roads! Roads they cleared BEFORE they went in to the middle of the woods.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Well\u2026 maybe he just\u2026 I think they can move trees on water? Maybe there\u2019s a river?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well this Ted has to then somehow get that tree to a river, and then log roll it which is insanely dangerous especially without help or support, to an already built flume and sawmill.
\nJohn Galt:<\/b> Yes I\u2019m just going to say we have that because I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to care enough to check.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Right now you\u2019re lucky that my disdain for you is outweighing my hatred.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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