Book Atlas Shrugged. Part 2. Either-Or
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The second part of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy debunks the delusions of optimistic fighters for equality and brotherhood. The story continues of the struggle of the main characters Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden against a ruthless state system that has already begun to destroy itself from within....
The government's policy is leading the country to economic ruin: society is plunging into chaos, devoid of leaders and goals, and slipping into a new savagery. The idea that thinking is an illusion is being persistently pushed into the minds of the masses, and that those who seek any meaning are simply wasting their time. The apotheosis of this process is the introduction of a ban on reason. Meanwhile, day after day, entrepreneurs are disappearing in the country, abandoning their achievements and destroying their businesses with their own hands, making it clear that they are in implacable opposition to the new government. Dagny begins to suspect that these processes are no coincidence, that an unknown Destroyer has appeared in the country, deliberately removing the most influential players from the economic field, thus accelerating general helplessness and social degradation. The woman does not give up hope of putting the perfect engine into production, going to meet with a desperate engineer who refused to work for the benefit of the ignorant. On the way, she meets a random tramp. It turns out that he once worked in the very crucible of «pure evil», which today devours the whole country...
