There's literally a part in the Fountainhead where a character tells a story where he demanded work as a child and ended up carrying milk jugs at a grocery store, then blah blah he's suddenly a millionaire. It's presented as how he built character, you beg a business owner to do menial work as a child and then someday you're rich too. Ok cool
You're supposed to think children who work are admirable and the ones who don't are lazy parasites. The overarching theme of the Fountainhead seems to be you should be as stubborn as possible, never admit failing or fault, and never succumb to anyone who could be considered a parasite like uh...people building public housing.
cw: sexual assault
The Fountainhead is a complete mess honestly and it's one of the most deranged things I've ever read. The main character rapes a woman and is rewarded by her falling in love with him. He also tries building her a literal temple in his daily architect job.
The climax of the book occurs when he helps a friend design some public housing tenament buildings, but makes his friend swear the designs will not be altered. Then the parasitic socialist government tells the contractors to build the roof differently. This is such a moral outrage that the protagonist gets his rape victim to seduce and distract the security guard, then he blows up the whole construction site with TNT. This is explicitly told to the reader this is morally justified behavior in a 30+ page courtroom scene, where the protagonist is so successful at defending himself in court that his antagonist, a socialist newspaper editor, shoots himself in the head. The protagonist then gets a job designing the tallest building in NYC. The end.
There's literally a part in the Fountainhead where a character tells a story where he demanded work as a child and ended up carrying milk jugs at a grocery store, then blah blah he's suddenly a millionaire. It's presented as how he built character, you beg a business owner to do menial work as a child and then someday you're rich too. Ok cool
I've never read the book. Is the implication that the socialist world doesn't encourage child labor, but it should?
You're supposed to think children who work are admirable and the ones who don't are lazy parasites. The overarching theme of the Fountainhead seems to be you should be as stubborn as possible, never admit failing or fault, and never succumb to anyone who could be considered a parasite like uh...people building public housing.
cw: sexual assault
The Fountainhead is a complete mess honestly and it's one of the most deranged things I've ever read. The main character rapes a woman and is rewarded by her falling in love with him. He also tries building her a literal temple in his daily architect job.
The climax of the book occurs when he helps a friend design some public housing tenament buildings, but makes his friend swear the designs will not be altered. Then the parasitic socialist government tells the contractors to build the roof differently. This is such a moral outrage that the protagonist gets his rape victim to seduce and distract the security guard, then he blows up the whole construction site with TNT. This is explicitly told to the reader this is morally justified behavior in a 30+ page courtroom scene, where the protagonist is so successful at defending himself in court that his antagonist, a socialist newspaper editor, shoots himself in the head. The protagonist then gets a job designing the tallest building in NYC. The end.
As the chief censor in my house, I have decided to continue the supression of any media expressing Ayn Rand and JK Rowling thought.
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