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Oct 30, 2012nabilone rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
If you think this book is horrible, I don't think you understand what Ayn is trying to portray. The quote about Roark when he explains to one of Heller's commisoner's about how the human body should not be built like an ostrich because there would be "no point." is exactly why our society today - is - where it is. Because we constantly feel that we need to entertain people, by buying the newest gadgets, or building huge night clubs; rather than small speak-easy's, or advertising new tooth pastes as 3-D whitening, when infact they do the exact same thing as the last toothpaste or dollar toothpastes. It talks about the neccessary and uneccessary. And it really speaks to me because I have Aspergers Syndrome, which I felt that dominique and I would get along really well because it talks about mathematics. See, mathematics should be understood by anybody. It's really just symbols that convey the neccesary. There's no need to even communicate verbally in this world, but we do it every day because we've been conditioned to do it from a certain point in our lives. However, the greeks always spoke through symbols or spoke only when they needed to convey something. It was in the Roman times when mediocrity was conveyd as beauty like the Forum of Rome. The forum of rome was literally just a posession of the emporer, and not of the people. Yet, the people had access to it. Why? It was uneccessary. They could have had a forum anywhere else in the city of Rome. Yet we continue to literally build things like expensive suits to impress... who? Expensive cars for... what? See what I'm getting at? What is the point? The purpose of your architecture? What are you building? For who? Why are you going to post-secondary? For philosophy? Can't you ask questions about your exsistence yourself? Why do you need a degree to tell people you understand a concept? Can't you open a book?