(Drivebycuriosity) - Could Ayn Rand foretell the future? Her novel "Fountainhead", first published 1943, describes today´s Woke sentiment and the world of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders & the Biden administration ( amazon).
The novel follows 2 architects: Howard Roak & Peter Keating. While Roak is brilliant, but extremely uncompromising, is Keating mediocre and opportunistic. The mediocre Keating got successful and celebrated, the brilliant Roak got detested and almost destroyed. Mediocrity - and vox populi - ruled.
Here some quotes:
"The young man talked a great deal about injustice, the cruelty of society toward youth, and suggested that everyone should have his future"
That quote could be from a Biden speech - or a rant by Warren, Sanders, AOC & Co.
"Crusaders in the cause of the underprivileged and the unsheltered.....Not by what we are shall we be judged, by those we serve"
This could be description of today´s progressives and the powerful antitrust authority Federal Trade Commission (FTC) led by Biden protege Lina Khan (driveby).
"The lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people"
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"The worst folk song is superior to the best symphony"
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"Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease"
Rand described precisely the dislike of the Woke of Elon Musk.
The opportunistic and incompetend Keating became chairman of an organization, "named the ´Council of American Builders`. It was decided that membership would not be restricted to architects, but would be open to állied crafts`and to áll those holding the interests of the great profession of building at heart"
This sounds like a description of the Biden administration, which includes powerful government agencies like the FTC, the U.S. Department of Justice and IRS, who all want to control the American economy ( antitrust).
"Communism is, above all, a spiritual theory which denies the individual, not merely as an economic power, but in all and every respect. It demands spiritual subordination to the mass in every way conceivable, economic, intellectual, artistic; it allows individuals to rise on as servants of the masses, only as mouthpieces for the great average"
Thick Brush
Rand painted with a thick brush, of course, many actions were too dramatic for my taste and I couldn´t really believe in the characters. But I think Rand got to the point. And I believe it was necessary to write so clear to reach an audience.
Apparently today we live in a dystopian Ayn Rand society.
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