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Originally Posted by lendaddy
I'm not talking about freedom in the flag waving sense, freedom in the spiritual sense(not to be confused with religion). It's all about passion and the freedom to pursue it.
And back to your original claim, I've struggled to come up with a single beloved character in her books that celebrated the trappings of wealth.... I've come up with none. Money and wealth are byproducts of the passion not the goal.
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I am not talking about flag waving either - otherwise I would have chosen the image of a flag. She very specifically chose a dollar sign to replace a cross - she actually could have used a government symbol to be replaced, but she specifically replaced God's icon with her spiritual icon, the mighty dollar, money, her barometer of all.
As far as money, and how she views it - remember Francisco's very long speech on the virtue of money in Shrugged? If I remember (I'll need to dig up my rather tattered copy) he claims that the biggest achievement of America is that we are a country of money - that is how you define America.
However, you come to find out as you slog through Shrugged Francisco's speech was only 'very long' until you got to Galt's speech at the end - 90 pages - I wonder how the movie will treat it?