myers@uwvax.ARPA (Jeff Myers) (10/01/83)
Just picked up my first Ayn Rand novel today... Of course it only cost a quarter (I'm no fool). It's the 25th Anniversary Edition of *The Fountainhead*. Just glanced at the 25th Anniversary special Introduction by herself; I found the conclusion to be rather interesting... "It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature--and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning--and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or *The Fountainhead* that they will betray: it is their own souls. New York, May 1968 [remember Paris '68?] Ayn Rand" My, my. Elitist, ain't she?! Such contempt for the "vulgar masses" reminds one of Bruno Bauer and the Young Hegelians; both felt that it was up to the learned philosophers to save the world; those that don't understand... well too bad for them. Always looking for classical ideological statements posed as truth, Jeff Myers