Burroughs said:
Rand's views are admirable but amount in the end to an adolescent fantasy..Howard Roark in our current world would starve to death
i don't think hat's necessarily true. you can find a lot of roark's in the business world today. Mark Cuban has stated more than once that the fountainhead was the most imoprtant book he ever read in his life. he turned out pretty well.
the times may have changed, we may have more stuff at our disposal, but human nature has been the same way that it's been for at least the last 10,000 years give or take.
also, roawrk is synonymous with the my way or the high way mindset the guy who does not bend his character, that's not necessarily a fair nor accurate assessment. Rowark, routinely, swallowed his pride and did things he did not want to do,
but only when all other means of survival were exhausted. He took money from his friend when he hit real hard times at the beginning of the book who was doing better than him, when he told the people who wanted him to alter his designs and it meant a big contract to shove it, he knew he had to shut down his office and went to work in construction.
Alot of people misinterpret his character, such as you did when you said "he would starve to death". he would neve rstart to death becuase he's too pragmatic to allow that to happen. he would never hit his goals if he were dead. The true nature of rowark is to simply not to settle for being avg. Rowark was talented, he had chances throughout the book to take over the small archtieculre firm, he was given a job at the big shot firm at the beginning of the book, he could have made a nice honest living doing that. he was willing to struggle doing something he wanted to do than to not struggle to do something that he does not want to do.
and as far as today, i see post week after week on this forum stating pretty much the same thing about guys who have "good jobs" but hate their job. i don't see how that's any different at all.
well before my business took off I had what.... 3 jobs.. i sold cars, i was a tech at best buy and i a tech for GMAC.. **** i had to eat and pay rent somehow. I just never allowed myself to get comfortable enough in those jobs tlose focus of why i was there. and the DAY i thought i could support myself with my business i left. lol at lunch actually.
to work for something you want you are going to have to make sacrifices. sometimes pretty heavy sacrifices. you are going to struggle. to say that Rowark would not survive in 2012 is tantamount to saying you can't be successful, and i don't agree with that stance.
Now lol, if you want to say that a well off smoking hot woman would be attracted to a very avg looking yet unsessful inn life (yet) man, that's another story lol