 So Stefan asked that a fountain it question. Let's just take this quickly and then we'll get to Keating Keating Would you say the Dominique before she met work was destroying evil for the sake of destruction? No, because she wasn't destroying evil She was actually destroying the good and She wasn't destroying the good for the sake of destroying it She was destroying the good out of a sense of if you will justice She was horrified by the idea That bad people would be exposed would would get any pleasure or joy or any satisfaction from the good She wanted to destroy rock Because she was convinced he would be destroyed and she didn't want to give the people the the Tuis of the world then a satisfaction of doing it She didn't want to give to me the power That would come from destroying work. So she was gonna destroy him not in the name of destruction not in the name of evil But in the name of rocks virtues in the name of rocks independence in the name of rocks greatness and and that's That's a complicated character That is a very very complicated character, but think about the passion that's involved in Loving your values so much That the very thought that somebody bad an Evil human being would get be exposed to them. You don't upset you greatly So that you want to make sure That they never see That they never get exposed to them and it takes a while the entire book almost To see that she is wrong wrong in the sense that She's too focused on the negative too focused on the negative and not focused on the values and on the good people who have the good values and On the ability of good people to win So what walk teaches her is to focus on the positive to focus on The values themselves and not on evil. He teaches her that evil in the end is impotent That is the good that is powerful that the good that prevails That is the good that she should focus on she should Help and she should promote. She should help sustain and And that that is what her life. That's what will give meaning to her life. So Dominique is a very complicated character Very complicated character. Stefan says when I first started reading the foundation I thought it ran was going to make Dominique the antagonist. I love how that changed. It was brilliant Yes, I mean Dominique is so bewildering, but as soon as as soon as you see how to walk fall in love with it kind of It it it's I mean, it's hard for me to go back to when I first read the phone head So I don't remember what I thought exactly. I was so over one damn member where I read it But I don't remember exactly what I what I was thinking, but yes I mean, it's it truly is I mean Dominique is one of these colorful brilliant interesting Evocative and changing characters that I in man has In a woman in 1945 think about think about again independence Here's a here's a Dominique in in in I ran portraying Dominique in 1945 think of her how sexually liberated she is and Think about the way I ran portrays the whole relationship and This is 1945 When you know movies movies in Hollywood if they portrayed a married couple Their bedroom would have two beds in it because God forbid you imagine that a married couple might have sex So they had to have separate beds go back and look at all the movies in the 40s and 50s where married people live in So that's just one Way in which I meant but think about the whole novel think about the construction of that novel the characters in the novel There is no other to he and world literature. There is no other Dominique in world literature and they certainly know how to walk in world literature. I mean you want to think about somebody who is independent think I ran In terms of the character she she she created I mean Christian admits a crush on Dominique Christians way ahead of me because I Dominique was too bewildering for me I was young when I read the font hit way too bewildering me for me to really have a crush on her I had a crush on Dominique and Dagny But she was way, you know, you know way above my pay grade, but But it not on Dominique because I couldn't understand Dominique. I couldn't get Dominique It was certainly certainly first time really really too hard for me So think about rock right independence. That's what he is He lives by his own means Even if that means going to a query not to compromise his values right Not to compromise his values because he must live by his own standards his own values his own Judgment Independence is related the fact that you must judge That judgment is your responsibility and that's its connection to which virtue is the judging virtue is the virtue of our judgment justice Justice is all about judging and you must be an independent judge All again connected What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect Not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not give want to give in to today's despair cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist All right before we go on reminder, please like the show. 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