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Old 04-16-2011, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Keedy View Post
Ayn Rand has been getting alot of attention lately. She first came to fame with "The Fountain Head"1943 which was made into a movie. Her most famous novel is Atlas Shrugged 1957. It is in that novel that the phrase "Going Gault" was derived.
Here is a speech from Fountain Head: It makes you think about today's political philosophies.

"The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men"


http://www.youtube.com/v/Zc7oZ9yWqO4..._embedded&fs=1
That was great. Now I have to find that movie. I'm sure I've seen it as a boy, but I know I haven't seen it in long, long time.

The "individual against the collective". It was a cleansing speech.