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Ayn Rand, Howard Roark: in praise of the Self (1943)

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Panarchy - Panarchie - Panarchia - Panarquia - Παναρχία - “汎統治主義 A Gateway to Selected Documents and Web Sites Howard Roark: in praise of the Self from The Fountainhead (1943) Note This is the speech of Howard Roark, the architect in Ayn Rand's novel, defending the primacy of the human being against all the external powers that want to crush him in the name of demeaning self-sacrifice and corruptive altruism. It is a powerful plea against the terrible myth of selflessness that, as the word implies, denies the self and, by implication, personal choice and individual responsibility in favour of mass identity and collective servility. That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures - because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer - because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows

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