The Fountainhead

Review:
Rating: **
These are the deadlines of the second handers. They have no concern for the facts, ideas, work. They’re concerned only with people.

They don’t ask: ‘is this true?’ They ask: ‘is this what others think is true?’

Not to judge, but to repeat.

Not to do, but to give the impression of doing.
Not creation, but show.

Not ability, but friendship.
Not merit, but pull.

What would happen to the world without those who do think, work, and produce?

Those are the egoists.
You don’t think through another’s brain and you don’t work through another’s hands.
When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.
Second handers have no sense of reality. Their reason is not within them, but somewhere in that space which divides one human body from another.
Not an entity, but a relation – anchored to nothing.


This is the gist of this book. The author has used innumerable ways for saying it and to justify it.
Now I don’t say – I liked the book – that only makes me a second hander!