![]() ![]() The Fountainhead (1943) focuses on Architecture, and the emergence of the technology of the modern steel skyscraper building. Rand’s two most famous novels both display a sense of History and, especially of the history of technology. ![]() Before discussing, however, the means of disseminating these ideas, let us look at the historical context of the novel as well as what has occurred globally in the half-century since its publication. What is proposed herein, in promoting and distributing some of the fundamental ideas in the novel, such as entrepreneurship, individual initiative, wealth generation, and prosperity, is to look at these anew from the perspective of the dawning of the 21st century. If the Motor of the World has not yet stopped in the emerging, and on-going, financial crisis of the last year, it is no longer running very smoothly, nor are the so-called “Captains of Financial Capitalism” certain about how much fuel (Energy) remains in the tank, either. It is now barely a half-century since the publication of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). ![]()
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