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Ayn Rand's Method for Slaying Monsters
By, Jon Hersey
October 31, 2018
"Rand: "The motive and purpose of my writing," she wrote in regard to her fiction, "is the projection of an ideal man. The portrayal of a moral ideal, as my ultimate literary goal, as an end in itself.
One of the most fundamental evils Rand identified is collectivism: the subjugation of the individual - his mind, his judgment, values - to a group.
In his youth, one of the main characters wished to be an artist. But he allows his mother to talk him into pursuing a more "respectable profession": architecture.
Years later, his monumental errors are made clear to him. He hates, with all of his being, the career he's chosen and the way he's gone about it.
It's a terrifying prospect: committing treason against oneself, against one's deepest values and ambitions."
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