The Fountainhead - Howard Roark Speech (Ayn Rand)

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From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Gary Cooper as Howard Roark delivers the memorable courtroom speech in self-defense for dynamiting Courtland.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: August 10, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Author: Sidewinder77

Length: 00:05:53
Rating: 4.73
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Tags: Ayn Rand Fountainhead Gary Cooper individualism collectivism self-ownership capitalism

Video Comments:
ipx4 (October 7, 2008 at 9:58 pm)
Ooops, no "s" in Lafargue
ipx4 (October 7, 2008 at 9:57 pm)
Fusiller les riches de but en blanc serait de la folie : il faut d'abord les mettre en prison et les affamer jusqu'à ce qu'ils rendent l'argent qu'ils ont volé. C'est seulement quand ils n'auront plus rien que nous les fusillerons.

Jules Lafargues
WISEBL00D (October 7, 2008 at 12:20 am)
Oh this 'great speech' sounds like everything else Rand wrote.

Like an episode of Dynasty, The Colbys or Dallas. The rich and powerful are beautiful, pure and misunderstood. Everyone else that doesn't have a bright idea (i.e. not raping the world to make way for rail roads or horrendous housing projects) is a looter. Pop (pulp) fiction writ large and masquerading as philosophy.

Objectivism.
HerrK77 (October 6, 2008 at 9:15 pm)
... The political consequences are volatile. The masters require servants, but they must beware lest the servants become masters.

[I wonder if Alan Greenspan would agree.]

(excerpts from: Stanley Rosen, 'Hermeneutics as Politics').
HerrK77 (October 6, 2008 at 9:01 pm)
...At a deeper level, the desire to be a god is intensified by modern anticipations of the infinite power of science. But at the same time, there is a clear perception of the danger attendant upon launching this revolution. The Cartesian "firm and constant resolution" is a characteristic of the best or most powerful individual souls. But in order to do what they believe to be the best, these souls must also unleash the passions of the great multitude of unphilosophical beings...
HerrK77 (October 6, 2008 at 8:56 pm)
...Despite the exaltation of mathematical and experimental science as the mediate source of power, modern philosophy demotes the intellect by making it instrumental to the will. In so doing, it necessarily promotes what from the classical standpoint is the lower part of the soul. Modern man wills to be free because he cannot accept restraints upon his passions or desires. Wonder, or awe in the presence of the divine, is replaced by curiosity, or the desire to know "what makes the divine tick."
HerrK77 (October 6, 2008 at 8:52 pm)
... Nevertheless, there is a difference between the ancients and the moderns with respect to the relation between the will and the intellect. As Socrates puts it, the classical philosopher wills that the intellect be god. One could almost say that, from Descartes forward, the intellect resolves that the will be god. Somewhat more accurately, the intellect is an instrument of the will to freedom, and this accounts for the emphasis on power in modern philosophy.
HerrK77 (October 6, 2008 at 8:25 pm)
The uneasiness that accompanies the modern sense of freedom led at the beginning of the Enlightenment to relatively conservative doctrines. I do not believe that we can understand this conservatism as merely an exoteric accommodation to political authority. To the contrary, it expresses very well the inner harmony between traditional and enlightened authoritarianism. According to Leo Strauss, classical philosophy, no less than modern, is an act of the will. Nevertheless, there is a difference
VBZBII (October 4, 2008 at 8:30 am)
A parasite is one who produces less than he takes and justifies it outright by saying that it is giving which is the highest virtue and loving ones' neighbors is more noble than loving ones' self.

A producer is one who knows that he cannot take more than he has earned. One who does not tolerate unearned rewards or unrewarded duties in matters he is involved in. A producer does not rely on others while a parasite can only live off of others. It was actually in the video, more or less.
marxbitesall (October 3, 2008 at 10:44 pm)
If that doesn't pull your heartstrings in freedom's cause, then shame on you.

Social economic equality is pure slavery.

When govt takes from one to give to another, the one has also had his incentive to produce stolen as well as his money. While the "other" has an increased incentive to live off other's production.

I weep for my country - our Roarkes have almost all been propagandized into acquiescence and servitude by our totalitarian compulsory educrats.