Atlas Shrugged

2^nd blog: Explore Feelings

In the second section of the book, Atlas Shrugged, there is a horrible disaster that might not have happened if someone had taken initiative. The people of America were having a lot of problems because of new laws and so one no longer wanted to have responsibility for any thing that happened. The train Comet had slid of the rail inside of the Taggart tunnel and it had to get moving, but no one wanted to take that responsibility. The orders had gone all the way to the top and back all the way to the bottom, “The responsibility that James Taggart and Clifton Locey had evaded now rested on the shoulders of a trebling, bewildered boy.”(603). If you could not weave your way out of the way of the orders it was left to you. This scene of the book frustrated me because everyone was afraid. Some of the people were terrified of what might happen to them if they had to deal with it. When the problem wasn’t directed towards them they would not even try to help “The three men did not answer. They were middle-aged men with years of railroad service behind them. A month ago, they would have volunteered their advice in any emergency; but they were beginning to learn that things had changed and that it was dangerous to speak.”(590). Their poor choose not to do any thing about this problem caused an even bigger problem. The train was pull out of the tunnel by another coal running train so the passengers choked to death and then a different train ran in to them.