➔ Atlas Shrugged Part III Chapter 5: Their Brothers' Keepers - Rearden Finally Walks Away
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“Their Brothers’ Keepers” – the irony of that title should hit you like a truck. Every person in this book who claims to be their brother’s keeper is actively destroying their brother. Every single one. The title is not describing a moral principle. It is describing a murder weapon.
Everything Is Breaking
A copper wire breaks in California. Just one wire. No copper to replace it because the storekeeper sold their stock weeks ago to shady dealers connected to Cuffy Meigs. Nobody reports it. Nobody acts. Everyone too afraid of retaliation to do their job.