It has another name: the individual against the collective. Without personal rights, without personal ambition, without will, hope, or dignity. Every horror and destruction came from attempts to force men into a herd of brainless, soulless robots. Everything thing we have, every great achievement has come from the independent work of some independent mind. That he must think as they think, act as they act, and live is selfless, joyless servitude to any need but his own. He claims that man is only a tool for the use of others. The parasite seeks power, he wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery.

He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice. The creator requires independence, he neither serves nor rules. The creator's concern is the conquest of nature - the parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

The creator produces, the parasite loots. The parasite follows the opinions of others. Howard Roark: The creator stands on his own judgment. It cannot not be subordinated to the needs, opinions, or wishes of others. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. The man who thinks must think and act on his own. But the mind is an attribute of the individual, there is no such thing as a collective brain. Howard Roark: Man cannot survive except through his mind. And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. He went ahead whether others agreed with him or not. He held his truth above all things, and against all men. The creation which gave form to his truth. His work, not those who used it, his creation, not the benefits others derived from it. Howard Roark: No creator was prompted by a desire to please his brothers. They fought, they suffered, and they paid - but they won. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Through out the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived of, and he lifted darkness off the earth.

Howard Roark: Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire.

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