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sacreficial goat, offering to a god that has no face, but many faces. In sacrificing he

gains nothing except false prestige and a delusion of happiness. He follows the desires of

his mother and cast aside dreams of pursuing the proffesion he wants. In doing so, he

denies himself the gratification of doing what he wants to do and in turn sentencing

himself to a life of misery and frustration. The fool refuses to accept that, ’ Where

there’s sacrefice, there is some one collecting sacreficial offerings,’ and,

‘ Where there is service, there is some one being served.’ Ultimately, this ties

into slavery, and worst yet, its self slavery.

Keating flows through a transition of vanity, fame, lies, flatter, and eventually guilt.

He lacks the essential of self respect. A person without self respect lives in insecurity,

holding a bomb that has no control over its detonation switch. The fame that he dwell on

comes with a price and that is the man’s own dignity. He flushes his human qualities

in a trade with the devil and in the end suffers the consequences. He who decieves others,

decieves himself. Yet even deciet has its limits. A collective is not an entity, it is a

monster that consume without remorse. It destroys what is great and promotes a

relationship where the exchange is mutual exploitation. The society which mould keating

into existence abandons him, satisfied that it has done its toll. Then as it has aruptly

embraces him, his power vanishes. Keating realizes that he is left alone and slowly his

concience seeps in, destroying the empty shell that remains. This is true example of power

without responsibility.With respect to the Webster’s Dictionary, power is define as, ‘authority,’

and a form of ‘control’. Inevitably, authority suggest the notion of power aim

at a target, and often over group of people or individuals without ‘control’. In

turn, power is rather destructive, its nature is the encouragement of a society where

individuals strive to conquer one another. Generally, human kind have never learn cope

with this fact, thus locking itself in a cycle of voluntary decay.

Ayn Rand sums it up in a quote, " Life can be kept in existence only by a constant

process of self-sustaining actions." In her vision, she proposes progress as a

measurement of power and a solution to the ‘process of self-sustaining actions’,

as an individual who exist not to triumph over other men, but in the conquest of nature.

Nature is a formidable foe which trembles the heart of the weak, but to great men,

it’s dangers serve as an inspiration. Ayn Rand worships the greatness in men who

dares to break the Cycle and humbly honer them by creating the character of Howard Roark,

a symbolism of strenght and determination.

Roark is ‘self centered’, ‘self generated’, ‘self

sufficient’, ‘self motivated’ and is the ideal man. He represents a

powerful locomotive, pulling his only cargo of an ego and armor plating which protects it.

Power streams from this neural core, it surges in a fluxing shield that illuminates an ora

of remarkable enery, fuel that can only come from an individual.

The antagonist, Ellsworth Toohey once claims that, " A thinking man can’t be

ruled." This statement aim at an opponent that is superior to all and including

society. Roark thinks and this gives him the power to create. Creators are mile stones,

set far from the fuilthy reaches of the mass mob who deserves no place for contest.

Creators travels uncharted paths into a unique destiny, pursuing uncontrollable

possibilities. Society lack control over Roark, this hatred overwhelms them and they set

out to destroy him. The Leeches complicates themself in attacking something that is prone

to their touch. Roark is not an image of a man, but a hologram that is immune to outside

interference.gives him a freedom no other enjoy and that is true happiness.

At first, Roark’s character can be on the outrageous side, doom humorous and terribly

intiminating. However, he is the product of a radical thinker and thus is an incredible

concept of thought. Believing in his existence help to understand the philosophy behind

his character and like wise the character behind the philosophy.

Perhaps at the dawn of creation, all human beings can be considered paupers in terms of

knowledge, wisdom and undoubtedly, the power to make appropriate decisions. Simply put,

life’s a continuous search for a sturdy foundation, upon which will erect a

monumental shrine for those who succeeds, and for mindless others who fail to choose the

right path, it will be their final resting place, six feet under. Success is eminent for

those who search vigorously, but more importantly for those who knows where to seek the

guidance. There are few however, that surpass the stage of seeking, they go beyond to

collect their wisdom into a teaching, guidance in the form of a philosophy. Ayn Rand is

one among them.

Individualism is the philosophy which exemplify ‘self’, promotes greatness and

prolong longevity of the human race. It contains the power lock inside every individual.

Our responsibility as an enity on this planet, is to tap this incredible source of energy,

ustilizing this fuel to propell humanity into the depth of the future.

This is a lesson readers of Ayn Rand’s philosophy will never

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