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To: russet who wrote (59033)	9/28/2000 1:01:26 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 116756

Nice Post. I remember reading Ann Rand's " The Fountainhead," a long time ago. The whole secret of that novel, I think, was that true individual human power is self-sufficient, self-motivated and self-generated. The individual, for Rand, serves nothing and no one; the individuals of the world live for themselves and only by doing so they achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. It is the others who benefit from them. Rand sees the ideal man as strong, proud, clean, wise, fearless and guiltless. She saw man as a heroic being. Rand thought that self-exaltation comes from the consciousness of being guiltless, of seeking the truth and achieving it, of living up to one's highest possibility, of knowing no shame and having no cause for shame. Rand didn't believe in religion in the traditional sense. Rand believed that if man himself can achieve nobility and grandeur, then why not worship that ideal man instead of God? And thus she built the temple to the human spirit and not to God. This was the person who Greenspan looked up to and admired.