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Honestly that probably would be a better idea than trying to improve the system. Although thats pretty much what my article would conclude to because the odds of the public-school system actually being improved is little to none. Btw if you want to reply to comments, click "reply" (i saw the other comment u made to continuum or whatever his/her name was)

The Fountainhead engages mostly on an interpersonal level aside from a few remarks ("Isn't Europe swallowed already [by collectivism] and we're stumbling on to follow?") so my agreement with her is contained to the points made on that axis rather than economic ideas. I know for her the two were quite intertwined, which is also implied in the brief moments where she connects her diatribes to governance explicitly, but

I don't know if I would make that commitment myself.

What I got out of it was the idea that there is an undesirable emphasis on actions chosen because of how they will make others view us rather than deriving from some individualistic satisfaction. There is variation in the distribution of the two between individuals but I do think the person that is composed mostly of consideration towards a 'status' is robbing themselves of some sort of human dignity.

Agency, I suppose. If someone is the composite of others more than themselves then can they be called an individual? Ofc there's a lot of implicit assumptions about definitions being made in that line of reasoning but it comes from a place of feeling before thought.

fuck this max word limit man

>extreme division of labor so that everyone does one specialized work to make money and buy everything else with that money. That's totally totalitarian. Is the idea here that people are coerced into a 'slot' through economic pressures? I will say that extrapolating from what she says in the book to societal policy led to ambiguity at best, something that seems to be echoed in the general reception of her philosophy