![]() ![]() shades of Eddie Williers, who was an average and honest bloke well aware of his own limitations and yet idealized Dagny to be his leader. Even if one were not a superhero, one could align to the vision of such characters i.e. Supremely confident and competent figures like Howard Roark and Dagny Taggart seem magical and one instinctively feels that they will make the world a better place to live in for all of us. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. ![]() About two decades later, am amused by the unadulated enthusiasm and think with wonderment that I believed that these protagonists could be real-life heroes.Īyn Rand is truly inspirational when you are in your teens, trying to battle your demons and find your identity. There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. Howard Roark and Dagny Taggart were real inspirations on how to go about changing the world. I read them all during my teens and early 20s. The Fountainhead’, ‘Atlas Shrugged’, ‘We The Living’, and ‘Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal’. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rands most extensive statement of. My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. ‘ – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged familiar to readers of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. ![]()
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