The Fountainhead<\/em>. Howard Roark, the novel\u2019s hero, is the epitome of independence. He speaks of the need to have a self-sufficient ego and says nothing else is as important. What is a \u201cself-sufficient ego\u201d? What is independence and how does one preserve one\u2019s independence in a society like ours when much of the weight of the media and the intellectual establishment is on the side of dependence and is pushing collectivism: the opposite of independence?<\/p>\n\n\n\nJoin special guest Harry Binswanger as he asks another one of life\u2019s big questions: How can one be fully independent in today\u2019s society? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Independence is the theme of Ayn Rand\u2019s great novel The Fountainhead. Howard Roark, the novel\u2019s hero, is the epitome of independence. He speaks of the need to have a self-sufficient ego and says nothing else is as important. What is a \u201cself-sufficient ego\u201d? What is independence and how does one preserve one\u2019s independence in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,453,9,10,113,436,196,15,520,6],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ayn-rand","tag-harry-binswanger","tag-independence","tag-individualism","tag-reason","tag-self-esteem","tag-self-interest","tag-selfishness","tag-society","tag-the-fountainhead","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}