Thursday, September 18, 2014
Fountain Head finished
I finally finished reading The Fountain Head. I found it a bit difficult to piece together at first, but in the end she wraps it up beautifully. The major theme of the book is that there are two types of people in the world. There are producers and there are users. If you are a producer, you use your own ideas to create something. You have the right to own and control what you have produced. You do not have any obligation to share what you have produced with others. It is yours. If you are a user, you think that you have a right to claim what someone else has produced as your own. You are incapable of creating anything on your own, so you borrow, steal or copy from the people who do. I think there are many places in society where we can see this happening today. People who are on welfare and refuse to create their own income think that they have a right to take money away from those who do. People who are incapable of creating a work of art, music or film think that they have a right to take copies of what someone else has produced and sell it for their own profit. If I create something I should have the right of ownership and no one else has the right to take or alter what I have created.
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