Atlas Shrugged: The Problem of Original Property<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Oh my, where did my metal faced friend go?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Destro is off\u2026 taking care of things.
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Ah! My other metal faced friend! Sincere apologies about earlier, I was so distraught over finding Dagny alive for a good five seconds there that I was barely able to process anything at all!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well now that you\u2019ve met your recently resurrected friend I\u2019m sure the two of you would just love to catch up\u2026
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Of course, and what better way than by giving an oppressively long monologue!
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Oh splendid!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You\u2026 you\u2019re not even going to really ask her how she\u2019s doing or something? I mean\u2026 just\u2026 just talk? Can you just talk so I can get out of here?
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Nonsense, now is the perfect time to expound upon my personal backstory.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Oh I\u2019d love to hear that! I bet it includes all sorts of information about how terrible other people are.
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> It does!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Wait\u2026 you two were\u2026 like\u2026 dating right?
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> And your point?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Shouldn\u2019t he at least have told you\u2026 I don\u2019t know\u2026 some of this? I thought you guys grew up together!
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Oh yes we dated for like\u2026 10 years. Before I broke up with her for John Galt.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Perfectly understandable.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> No it isn\u2019t! This\u2026 this is supposed to be the moment where you explain WHY you couldn\u2019t tell Dagny about any of this. Like that you and John had made a pact to keep it secret or\u2026 because you knew that everything was super dangerous and you didn\u2019t want to get Dagny involved because you weren\u2019t sure it would work or\u2026 I don\u2019t know. .. something!
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Look I just admitted that while I was dating Dagny and running my company I apparently never once told her any of how I actually felt about anything at the time, why would you think I would tell her about this?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Then why tell her now!?
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Oh well\u2026 in truth, all of everything I did up to this point was for the purposes of being able to give this speech. It\u2019s going to be a very good one, took ages to cook up!
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Oh I\u2019m looking quite forward to it myself! I might even interject a little like two word leading question into it to help you along. But of course otherwise I\u2019ll hold my tongue so as not to interrupt.
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Oh that would be splendid of you yes. I really can\u2019t wait to talk about how much I hate the common man though\u2026 awful ugly people. I mean do you realize how ugly common people are?
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Just awful.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Listen, I could i ntroduce you to someone who works for me named Baroness\u2026 though if she isn\u2019t your \u2018speed\u2019 Tomax and Xamot well\u2026 okay I\u2019m getting off topic here because what does that have to do with anything? What is even wrong with you people?
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Oh come on you know ugly people are evil. Or evil people are ugly. Same difference. But that\u2019s not really the point here. The point is to also brag about how amazing I am for having found a super rich copper mine here that I bought from Midas. Finally, something I own by right and not permission.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> But you do own it by permission. You own it by Midas\u2019s permission.
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> No\u2026 it\u2019s\u2026 it\u2019s different! The other stuff I owned because the government paperwork said I owned it and I had to pay taxes!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Right\u2026 for\u2026 maintaining things like roads and infrastructure. Which here I\u2019m just guessing you do directly\u2026 you just\u2026 pay John Galt for electricity probably. You paid Midas for the land\u2026 I\u2026 I guess you pay whoever constructed the roads for the roads?
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s ever really addressed.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well fine but let\u2019s just assume you\u2019re paying a usage fee for the roads or paying someone to maintain them for you or whatever. That\u2019s just\u2026 that\u2019s taxes.
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Heresy! All my money goes to private individuals\u2026 not some\u2026 \u2018government.\u2019
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well it\u2019s not a democracy that\u2019s for sure. Dictatorship I guess? Since you all just do mostly what Galt tells you? But everyone has to pay every other individual for every single piece of infrastructure they run so it\u2019s also absurdly complicated and time consuming?
\nFrancisco d\u2019Anconia:<\/b> Nonsense! It\u2019s certainly not a dictatorship! We do everything John Galt says because we naturally agree with him because we\u2019re all just as genius as he is even if he is the first among geniuses so why would we ever disagree about anything.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh right, how could I forget. You\u2019re a cult.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally posted on Atlas Shrugged: The Problem of Original Property. Francisco d\u2019Anconia: Oh my, where did my metal faced friend go? Cobra Commander: Destro is off\u2026 taking care of things. Francisco d\u2019Anconia: Ah! My other metal faced friend! Sincere apologies about earlier, I was so distraught over finding Dagny alive for a good five seconds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1308,"featured_media":0,"parent":9712,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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