A Conflict Of Visions By George Sowell

a) Dagny considers John Galt to be the “destroyer” because he was the beginning of everything. He was the first person to quit his job and disappear. John Galt threatened that he would “stop the motor of the world”. Then the factories started closing and the great inventors and minds started disappearing. Dagny either needed the help of or was friends with some of these minds and resented Galt for taking them away from her. Galt, Francisco, Mulligan, and others in the valley reject this characterization because they do not see the factories closing and production slowing as Galt’s fault. It is not that they all wanted the world to be destroyed, they only wanted to sacrifice themselves to society. They do not want the government, or anyone else, making decisions for them.
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The rationalist that does not have enough reason to be taught the limits of conscious reason becomes the destroyer of civilization. Simply, he hates what he cannot understand. In A Conflict of Visions, Sowell would consider them having a constrained vision. The constrained vision is concerned about power inequality, which produces a rationalist ruling upper-class (Sowell 1987). The destroyers of civilization, for Hayek, are the rationalists who cannot accept anything that he cannot understand. Human reason has limits and some things go beyond those limits. If the rationalists could not accept this, it would undo years of civilization and history. Sowell (1987) writes that you can never account for “every sparrow’s fall”. This means that you cannot account for everything that happens. Some things are just too