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I may have mistakenly read something into the book that wasnt there but I thought that Dagny had been "Allowed" to find the Valley by the strikers.....they knew that she was like them and had let her in. I think that the locked up generator was a slip on the authors part that indicated that subconciously knew that the basic idea of "producers" and "takers" or "parasites" was being blown Waaaaaaaayyyyy out of proportion to what mankind has ever known reality to be. I think that the lock was indicative of Rands understanding of Human Nature and the fact that no matter how moral a group claims to be that unfettered capitolsim requires mankind to lock up his greatest ideas and creations and even to keep them away from the light of day completely if he isnt properly fawned over and compensated for his efforts. If this is the case who cares what he has done or invented? And if he chooses to let mankind know what he has produced but refuses to allow man to use it what does that say about the morality of the producer?

I read "Atlas Shrugged" many years ago and was very much intersted in the philsophy of Rand but I had trouble finding an answer to the following question and have never received a satisfactiry answer to this day....why was the generator that was used in the valey to produce electrical current kept under a special lock by the creator of the generator IF every one in the valley had a higher morality and no one could accidentally find the valley?