The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
I encourage all people who have a respect for intellectualism and individualism to please read this book if you have not already. Thank you
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Another one that is worth reading is Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Several of the chapters were written by none other than Mr. Alan Greenspan. Here's the closing two paragraphs from chapter five entitled "Gold & Economic Freedom" which he wrote in "66.
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."
You just convinced me to buy the book. Thanks for that quote.
This book comes up so often in conversation and posts - I'll try and read it soon. Still making my way through "Don Quixote" which is soooooooooo long --- but incredibly entertaining and insightful.
I enjoyed The Fountainhead more than Atlas Shrugged--something more about individual creativity and freedom as opposed to captains of industry. Either way, Ayn Rand is one of my greatest influences.
Somehow I believe the Ellsworth Tooheys of the media are winning out. I would highly recommend Toohey's monolog with Peter Keating for all of you that haven't figured out what liberal media bias is all about.
P.S. I like your name.
I agree The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are very different books, The Fountainhead is like Poetry for individualism, it is pure beauty and a magnificent read. Atlas Shrugged is more of ideology and is probably the best argument against socialism and/or communism that I have ever read, especially that speech between Dagny and the Tramp on the train.
What I liked about the Fountainhead is how dead on she was with her Characters. We all want to be Howard Roark but we all have a little bit of Keating in us, and hopefully VERY small amounts of Toohey because he was just pure evil. However we definitely have Gail Wynand in us if we are aspiring to be a Roark and are impressed and intrigued with Roark-Like Qualities.
I have seen the movie "The Fountainhead" and I fear I may have missed the point. Perhaps reading the book this time would be the way to go.
My biggest disappointment in the movie was that it failed to mention how Gail Wynand rose from nothing to build his empire--it really is an important element of the story that connects the the characters of Roark and Wynand. Furthermore, Ellsworth Toohey's character was not truly exposed for the monster that he was.
Yes, you should read the book; but there are a number of internet sites that have specific passages related to various Ayn Rand characters.
Mr. Wynand, you brought a quite relevant point into light. Yes, we all want to be more like Roark and less like Keating (at least I hope everyone else out there does). Just remember, it's OK to pity people though.