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How Can One Be Fully Independent in Today’s Society? by Harry Binswanger
Ayn Rand Institute Live!
English - November 13, 2019 20:36 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsCourses Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Independence is the theme of Ayn Rand’s great novel The Fountainhead. Howard Roark, the novel’s 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 “self-sufficient ego”? What is independence and how does one preserve one’s 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?
Join special guest Harry Binswanger as he asks another one of life’s big questions: How can one be fully independent in today’s society?