Contra Ayn Rand - Edit3

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Contra Ayn Rand


Origami teaches more
    than dextrous fingers, memory,
    and seeing possibilities
    implicit in material unformed–

one also learns,
    having folded labor, time
    and vision intricately
    into matter, owning it–

to loose it freely
    into river, wind or fire
    without regret.

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Thanks to both critics!  I've incorporated most of the advice in this revision, except for @Knot's idea of returning to a blank sheet of paper.  That's an intriguing thought, but with origami paper there's a real note of entropy:  order is imposed, but it's one-way.  Usually you can unfold a figure (with great care to keep from tearing it), but the paper's no good for anything else afterward.  (And it would have compromised the didactic theme... not ready for that.)

@billy - contra, but not (I hope) all the way to altruism, Rand's favorite swear-word.  Maybe a little zen-like rather than altruistic.  And the structure did change, still a single run-on sentence but not quite as convoluted.  Unsymmetrical, but the world is unsymmetrical... and in that there is a certain symmetry [ow!  shouldn't have mentioned zen]