➔ Atlas Shrugged Part I Chapter 1: The Theme - Who Is John Galt?
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The book opens and immediately you feel something is wrong. Not in a dramatic way. In the slow, creeping way that infrastructure fails. A bridge doesn’t collapse overnight. It develops hairline cracks over years until one day a truck falls through.
Eddie Willers and the Feeling You Can’t Name
Eddie Willers is walking through New York City after work. Regular guy, loyal employee of Taggart Transcontinental railroad. He’s got this feeling. A vague, heavy anxiety that something is deeply wrong with the world around him. He can’t name it. He can’t point to one specific thing. It’s just everywhere.