Monthly Blog-Due September 30th

One thing I saw during the Socratic Seminar for The Fountainhead was the discussion on Ayn Rand's philosophy and her characters. A discussion question was would Roark (and Rand) find to be the destroyer of the world and I feel that it would be being a collectivists and secondhanders. By not being an individual, they are not thinking for themselves and then making themselves fail. Roark would be angry at people for not thinking for themselves and I think he felt that those kind of people were the ones to ruin the world. In the novel, Roark even spoke of how secondhanders are bad and how they effect themselves and others. Also how there are different types of secondhanders. In society today, I can see how Rand's belief is right because at the moment, we have collectivists on wall street. They are following other people and believe that unethical business techniques are the way to business when they really stealing from the American people. For example, Bernie Madoff. He stole many American people's money and he is not the only one. I think in a way, not being an individual does hurt the world we live in. In another way though, it helps keep somethings in line. If we weren't in someway a collectivist, this world would be insane. There would be a lot of commotion and no order. So a balance of both doesn't destroy the world. However, more power to either an individualist or a collectivist can cause trouble for many.