I'm watching The Fountainhead right now

[MrScorpio]

I have to say the this movie is probably the biggest testament to unbridled egotism I've ever seen in my relative short life.

I was never attracted to Ayn Rand, nor have I ever read any of her books or studied her philosophy.

But, by this movie, I can say that she thinks that the only way that one should live their life successfully is by being the biggest, unapologetic asshole that one can be. And that genius is despised by the petty and jealous multitude. And that individual, alpha males particularly, are the only arbiters of true progress.

All and all, I can see why so many right wing, college Republican types are attracted to what she has to say... Basically, a confirmation of their own tremendous assholism.