The Fountainhead (swedish: “Urkällan”) is a novel by Ayn Rand which everybody should read. Story (stolen from wikipedia since I’m too lazy to write my own synopsis):

The Fountainhead’s protagonist, Howard Roark, is an idealistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. The book follows his battle to practice modern architecture, which he believes to be superior, despite an establishment centered on tradition-worship. How others in the novel relate to Roark demonstrates Rand’s various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between Roark, the author’s ideal man of independent-mindedness and integrity, and what she described as the “second-handers.” The complex relationships between Roark and the various kinds of individuals who assist or hinder his progress, or both, allows the novel to be at once a romantic drama and a philosophical work.

There you go. The title of the book refers to the fact that “a man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.” Which I totally agree on. Ayn Rand gets a bit complicated from time to time in the book, taking note of suffering of characters which I can’t really understand. Maybe I am too stupid to see the reason behind it. Nah, that can’t be it. I’m too clever for my own good!

Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s philosophy, is woven into the text through its main characters. Objectivism explained: “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

So you left-wing bastards out there who think that self-sacrifice and subordination of the individual under the society is the best way to go should grab a copy of this book and then reconsider your statements. For real.

By the way, I know this book made it to a movie too. I will see if I can get hold of it.

Next book I’m reading right now is Atlas Shrugged by the same author. I think that book was considered her magnus opus.

Ayn Rand. Read or die, bitches!