"If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"
This is an awesome summary! I don't think I could get through 750 pages so thank you so much for this. The more I listen to Ayn Rand the more I see truth in her writing and philosophies
"..the question is not who is going to let me..it's who is going to stop me"..Ayan's most quoted words...it's proves her mind...must read Everyman even today..
It is worth noting that this book is from a much younger Ayn Rand than the one who wrote “Atlas Shrugged”. This book is idealistic about the hero; the later book is far more focused on being cynical about society. I love the Fountainhead. But she is more “famous” for a later and angrier book, in my opinion. I want to be like Roark, not Galt, basically 🏗
I'm about half-way through reading The Fountain Head for the first time. Thanks for the interesting and informative summation of the book and its characters Brian. Next book - Atlas Shrugged.
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I am late to the party and I have a question... Help me understand Ayn when she says that serving other is, essentially, a crime to oneself? We/I are led to believe that to serve others is the highest accolade.. to put others before yourself is noble and this standpoint aligns with Buddhism to some extent yet Ayn (to my current understanding) turns that on it's head? I know from my own life experience that to be any use to anyone you need to be in control of yourself i.e you won't be able to help anyone if you are a mess or get overrun by other peoples issues... Her statement appears selfish?
She wrote a non-fiction book of essays called "The Virtue of Selfishness". She didn't agree with Buddhism. Helping someone you want to help is selfish in the way she uses the term and is ok by her. Serving others when it's a sacrifice of yourself is evil in her eyes. Remember, she heard all that crap in the Soviet Union as a child and fled the place.
Weird that a lot of these ideas are also Jordan Peterson's. Like "not helping people who can help themselves", "having an aim and purpose", "comparing yourself to you yesterday instead of others", and self-actualization, will, and individualism will make a better change in the world over anything else. Just now learning about Rand and Objectivism(which i dont fully agree with), but i feel like ive heard this all before through him. But never heard him compared to her.
Another comment on the video per se, as I'm living in socialist Sweden I really appreciate this more objective take on Rand's work. This review or whatever abstracts the most important values in the book!
Just my opinion :at one end a person should have his own chosen dreams, goals.. & pursuing what he wants because he's a selfish being, but on another hand sometimes he needs some opinion as they say 'feedback is the breakfast of champions' what I mean I can be selfish at the same time I ask or may take the opinion of others toward my own happiness especially if he /she is an expert in the field... In short : all thoughts & actions should be selfish
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Sounds very original. You work for the sake of work of you own vision. Can you imagine if everyone thought that way? Oh right, that was explored 100 years before in Crime and Punishment. Your own vision might be interesting but it helps no one but yourself. In Rand's world there are no families, no children, just antiseptic adults. Gotta be a reason why this book isn't taught in any literature class, philosophy class, economic class or in college at all. Junk is garbage is garbage is garbage.
As I can't comment on Ray Long below: If you ever read her views about this issue, you would find that she belived taking social security is, paraphrasing "taking back what's yours." If your work is taking from you by force, hence taxes, it's your right to take it back. If though you live of social security by non-producing it's immoral.
Wonder what Ayn Rand would think of someone who read her book and then synthesized it into a palatable form for lazy nitwits to save them the time of actual reading and thinking so they could regurgitate portions of it for the professor's test. Which, while they may get a passing grade, they have bypassed the whole reason for the assignment which was to apply their brain to pick apart someone else's "truths" to decide if they were valid or mere rubble. In two years, no in one, no by the next semester they will have no more of an idea of what The Fountainhead tried to say and the expansion of the brain the assignment was meant to engender. But then, it was a damn fun semester and it was Daddy's money anyway, right?
@@manofmartin No it's just bad writing. Just see the movie. Rand wrote the screenplay insisting that every word be included. After the film was released she claimed it was the worst film she had ever seen. It's pretty bad and the acting is a awful. But you can't run away from a bad plot, a bad idea and the fact that no one reads this drek anymore.
@@alg11297 lol. It was a best seller and many people still read it. You're welcome to your opinion but its doesnt make the book bad. It just means you dont like it. An argument about her screenplay being bad has little to do with the novel. Any literary work that moves from one format to another must go through a lot of changes. Her not making those sacrifices had nothing to do with the novel or story or plot.
I think im going against her advice here, but is thus book generally receiving a lot of hate or a lot of love? It seems to have a bad rep from the times Ive heard it spoken about, yet your breakdown is far more favourable!
I think the response most mainstream media portray is exactly how she portrays the newspapers in The Fountainhead. It's pretty hilarious to me. I think a lot of people can tell you how awful Rand is, but when you ask them if they read any of her books, they'll usually say no. Talk about second-handers.
Not sure why a nine year old video was in my recommended, but I'll comment anyway. I feel like you left out a whole lot of important points in The Fountainhead while bringing in a lot of points from other people that, while interesting, weren't really relevant to the book.
@@divyanshsharma8785 Well, I'm absolutely no scholar. But I look for meaning in my life everywhere around me. Buddhism teaches balance, humility, empathy. Staying away from extremes. That ridding oneself of their own brand of suffering, involves giving back to society, to be selfless. And its kind of the path I've chosen, while still keeping my ambition intact. Ayn Rand really admires people in power and getting one's self in a position of power is uber important. Instructs one not feel bad about being ambitious. However, people interpret this as, it's ok to look down upon those who do not succeed as well. Makes it seem ok to hoard and hide wealth, to squeal every time they pay out to society's needs. I dont think that Ayn made Howard Rourke to be a money hungry, "give me all of the pie" type of guy (i.e. a tea party member, Wall street buffoon, "social elites", etc.). He is about integrity, and only wants to achieve more for the sake of his ambition to create. Another thing that crossed my mind is that you have to take into consideration, the author's past. The Bolshevik War, the involvement of government intruding on people's lives and pretty much robbing them blind. War. This is why Ayn Rand despises government involvement so much. Just a side note worth looking into. But yes, now that I think of it, I do not think that an elitist wealthy person that is very interested in the amassing more wealth can ever honestly be a Buddhist.
@@pascopride "Ayn Rand really admires people in power and getting one's self in a position of power is uber important." *****Not sure if you read The Fountainhead, FYI might be some spoilers below.**** 1) Howard Roark calls people who seek power the worst kind of "second-handers". 2) Ellsworth Toohey is the main antagonist in the novel, and he tells Peter Keating his main goal is grabbing power. 3) Gail Wynand has very similar characteristics to Roark, but chose to seek power which lead to his ruin. Power hungry people might use Rand as an excuse to grab more power, but she clearly does not support people grabbing power in this book.
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Nice video Brian, the content is great. Don't take this the wrong way, but the sound should be worked on. It may seem like a small thing, but the sound of a video is as important as the langue of a book. The difference between Capitalism and Socialism is Capitalism motivates the individual and Socialism destroys it.
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This is an awesome summary! I don't think I could get through 750 pages so thank you so much for this. The more I listen to Ayn Rand the more I see truth in her writing and philosophies
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Toohey: " why you dont tell me what you are thinking about me?"
" But I dont think about you".
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Thus spoke Howard Roark
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It is worth noting that this book is from a much younger Ayn Rand than the one who wrote “Atlas Shrugged”. This book is idealistic about the hero; the later book is far more focused on being cynical about society. I love the Fountainhead. But she is more “famous” for a later and angrier book, in my opinion. I want to be like Roark, not Galt, basically 🏗
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Roark would never want to be like anyone else
I'm about half-way through reading The Fountain Head for the first time. Thanks for the interesting and informative summation of the book and its characters Brian. Next book - Atlas Shrugged.
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Always great!
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An awesome review thanks a bunch!
Great stuff; thanks!
Excellent vid
"Criticize by creating" love it!!!
Brilliant breakdown
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Great video, Brian. Thanks
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Great video! Thanks !
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Brian I've watched your film 3 times now, love it this is indeed powerful stuff!!
I am late to the party and I have a question...
Help me understand Ayn when she says that serving other is, essentially, a crime to oneself?
We/I are led to believe that to serve others is the highest accolade.. to put others before yourself is noble and this standpoint aligns with Buddhism to some extent yet Ayn (to my current understanding) turns that on it's head?
I know from my own life experience that to be any use to anyone you need to be in control of yourself i.e you won't be able to help anyone if you are a mess or get overrun by other peoples issues...
Her statement appears selfish?
She wrote a non-fiction book of essays called "The Virtue of Selfishness". She didn't agree with Buddhism. Helping someone you want to help is selfish in the way she uses the term and is ok by her. Serving others when it's a sacrifice of yourself is evil in her eyes. Remember, she heard all that crap in the Soviet Union as a child and fled the place.
Weird that a lot of these ideas are also Jordan Peterson's. Like "not helping people who can help themselves", "having an aim and purpose", "comparing yourself to you yesterday instead of others", and self-actualization, will, and individualism will make a better change in the world over anything else. Just now learning about Rand and Objectivism(which i dont fully agree with), but i feel like ive heard this all before through him. But never heard him compared to her.
Another comment on the video per se, as I'm living in socialist Sweden I really appreciate this more objective take on Rand's work. This review or whatever abstracts the most important values in the book!
Great book analysis!
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really man your work is outstanding .
Just my opinion :at one end a person should have his own chosen dreams, goals.. & pursuing what he wants because he's a selfish being, but on another hand sometimes he needs some opinion as they say 'feedback is the breakfast of champions' what I mean I can be selfish at the same time I ask or may take the opinion of others toward my own happiness especially if he /she is an expert in the field... In short : all thoughts & actions should be selfish
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I love this book. Freakin love it
So good
Thanks man...
Great synopsis. I thought it was anyway! Lol!
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Sounds very original. You work for the sake of work of you own vision. Can you imagine if everyone thought that way? Oh right, that was explored 100 years before in Crime and Punishment. Your own vision might be interesting but it helps no one but yourself. In Rand's world there are no families, no children, just antiseptic adults. Gotta be a reason why this book isn't taught in any literature class, philosophy class, economic class or in college at all. Junk is garbage is garbage is garbage.
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As I can't comment on Ray Long below: If you ever read her views about this issue, you would find that she belived taking social security is, paraphrasing "taking back what's yours." If your work is taking from you by force, hence taxes, it's your right to take it back. If though you live of social security by non-producing it's immoral.
Apparently Roy Long missed the entire point of the book review.
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Hey Man, would like you to comment on the book " Hiding in unnarural happiness" by American author Devamrita Swami
Wonder what Ayn Rand would think of someone who read her book and then synthesized it into a palatable form for lazy nitwits to save them the time of actual reading and thinking so they could regurgitate portions of it for the professor's test. Which, while they may get a passing grade, they have bypassed the whole reason for the assignment which was to apply their brain to pick apart someone else's "truths" to decide if they were valid or mere rubble. In two years, no in one, no by the next semester they will have no more of an idea of what The Fountainhead tried to say and the expansion of the brain the assignment was meant to engender. But then, it was a damn fun semester and it was Daddy's money anyway, right?
Hey bad writing is bad writing. Even if it takes you 700 pages
@@alg11297 bad writing? I think it's more a style of it's time and is similar to lord of the rings. Long winded.
@@manofmartin No it's just bad writing. Just see the movie. Rand wrote the screenplay insisting that every word be included. After the film was released she claimed it was the worst film she had ever seen. It's pretty bad and the acting is a awful. But you can't run away from a bad plot, a bad idea and the fact that no one reads this drek anymore.
@@alg11297 lol. It was a best seller and many people still read it. You're welcome to your opinion but its doesnt make the book bad. It just means you dont like it.
An argument about her screenplay being bad has little to do with the novel. Any literary work that moves from one format to another must go through a lot of changes. Her not making those sacrifices had nothing to do with the novel or story or plot.
@@manofmartin You are in denial. It's interesting that in both books a woman is raped and doesn't seem to mind it. That's unusual.
I think im going against her advice here, but is thus book generally receiving a lot of hate or a lot of love? It seems to have a bad rep from the times Ive heard it spoken about, yet your breakdown is far more favourable!
Agree its perspective
I think the response most mainstream media portray is exactly how she portrays the newspapers in The Fountainhead. It's pretty hilarious to me. I think a lot of people can tell you how awful Rand is, but when you ask them if they read any of her books, they'll usually say no. Talk about second-handers.
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Not sure why a nine year old video was in my recommended, but I'll comment anyway. I feel like you left out a whole lot of important points in The Fountainhead while bringing in a lot of points from other people that, while interesting, weren't really relevant to the book.
anonygent what points are those (briefly?)
Giving no thought to what other people thought of them cost the aristocracy their heads.
So this is basically the opposite of Buddhism, which teaches balance im one's desires
Ernesto Gomez i didn’t get you would you please elaborate this how buddhism is different?
@@divyanshsharma8785 Well, I'm absolutely no scholar. But I look for meaning in my life everywhere around me. Buddhism teaches balance, humility, empathy. Staying away from extremes. That ridding oneself of their own brand of suffering, involves giving back to society, to be selfless. And its kind of the path I've chosen, while still keeping my ambition intact.
Ayn Rand really admires people in power and getting one's self in a position of power is uber important. Instructs one not feel bad about being ambitious. However, people interpret this as, it's ok to look down upon those who do not succeed as well. Makes it seem ok to hoard and hide wealth, to squeal every time they pay out to society's needs. I dont think that Ayn made Howard Rourke to be a money hungry, "give me all of the pie" type of guy (i.e. a tea party member, Wall street buffoon, "social elites", etc.). He is about integrity, and only wants to achieve more for the sake of his ambition to create.
Another thing that crossed my mind is that you have to take into consideration, the author's past. The Bolshevik War, the involvement of government intruding on people's lives and pretty much robbing them blind. War. This is why Ayn Rand despises government involvement so much. Just a side note worth looking into.
But yes, now that I think of it, I do not think that an elitist wealthy person that is very interested in the amassing more wealth can ever honestly be a Buddhist.
@@pascopride
"Ayn Rand really admires people in power and getting one's self in a position of power is uber important."
*****Not sure if you read The Fountainhead, FYI might be some spoilers below.****
1) Howard Roark calls people who seek power the worst kind of "second-handers".
2) Ellsworth Toohey is the main antagonist in the novel, and he tells Peter Keating his main goal is grabbing power.
3) Gail Wynand has very similar characteristics to Roark, but chose to seek power which lead to his ruin.
Power hungry people might use Rand as an excuse to grab more power, but she clearly does not support people grabbing power in this book.
I almost named my son Howard.
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@@HeroicBrian what’s going on with all the railroads? Where’s Reardon when we need him?
Is it bad that I care what Ayn Rand thinks?
Nice video Brian, the content is great. Don't take this the wrong way, but the sound should be worked on. It may seem like a small thing, but the sound of a video is as important as the langue of a book. The difference between Capitalism and Socialism is Capitalism motivates the individual and Socialism destroys it.
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The protagonist sounds more like a starving artist than an architect
All kinds of misinterpretations here. Some of the initial points are right on, and then the examples used to illustrate the points aren't accurate.
im not going to like your video cuz your not here for likes, or ud be a second hander?