“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life" | Frank Bacon Speech
A masterpiece!
BACON talks about the single individual’s passionate urge to invent and create, the urge that relentlessly drives humankind forward. He contrasts this almost ardent desire with an embedded human trait that just as ferventy strives to kill innovation and individual glory.
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need.
“I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others. It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. I wished to come here and say that the integrity of a man’s creative work is of greater importance than any charitable endeavor. Those of you who do not understand this are the men who’re destroying the world.
“I wished to come here and state my terms. I do not care to exist on any others.
“I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society. To my country, I wish to give the ten years which I will spend in jail if my country exists no longer. I will spend them in memory and in gratitude for what my country has been. It will be my act of loyalty, my refusal to live or work in what has taken its place.
“My act of loyalty to every creator who ever lived and was made to suffer by the force responsible for the Cortlandt I dynamited. To every tortured hour of loneliness, denial, frustration, abuse he was made to spend—and to the battles he won. To every creator whose name is known—and to every creator who lived, struggled and perished unrecognized before he could achieve. To every creator who was destroyed in body or in spirit. To @votezaktaylor. To @hoaxwars. To a man who doesn’t want to be named, but who is sitting in this courtroom and knows that I am speaking of him.”
-The Fountainhead
I recently finished reading The Fountainhead. I had it in my library and decided to read it after I got done with We The Living.
We The Living ought to be read by anyone who is thinking with the Hive Mind as a shining example of how Collectivism kills with the Criminal Class at the helm.
Thanks for sharing the video, I don't recall ever seeing the film. Roark did that whole thing better in my head, for sure.
For much of the book, I didn't really enjoy reading The Fountainhead. Toohey and his Fabian Slow Play throughout was painful to watch. Sort of the feeling I have watching what I've been watching unfold in this real world.
I have post-it flags in a few places in both books, parts that I felt fit in with our present situation. I've thought about putting them on Steemit but the timing hasn't been right for me.
I had one more Ayn Rand book on the shelf, Anthem, another good read. It was such a short book I figured I would do a marathon and then get back to reading Nano, by Ed Regis. The books I've read by Regis are rank with disturbing information. Before Nano, I read Regenesis, the Synthetic Biology book he wrote with George Church, and before that, The Biology of Doom. I'd say I hope it's all a pack of lies, but I don't really think so.
That, and the willingness to sacrifice others.
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It doesn't surprise me to learn that Ayn Rand was a @hoaxwars fan. I mean, who isn't? Only @csthetruth.
So F*** the crowd?
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life"
Sir, I demand one second of your attention!
Attention is an interesting economy... isn't it?
Great pick Mr Bacon...
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